Chapter Seventy-six: Gambling

  "Junior brother..." Sun Hao hastily gave Kong Fang a signal, and Pang Tian Sheng, this powerful inner disciple of the sect, was not someone they could afford to provoke. Even if he couldn't do anything to them within the sect, they would have to leave the sect to complete tasks outside in order to accumulate contributions, and provoking such an existence would make it necessary for them to be extra cautious when completing tasks.

  Kong Fang simply didn't listen to his advice, which made Sun Hao extremely anxious in his heart.

  "Lu Qing, are you making demands or am I? Kong Fang gave Lu Qing a cold stare. This woman really didn't know what was good for her. 'If you dare to make decisions on my behalf again, then you can leave now. I don't have time to play with you.'"

  Lu Qing's face suddenly turned pale and then flushed, earlier in her haste she had agreed to Pang Tiānshēng's request but forgot that it was Kong Fang who decided who would enter the Lian Qi room with Su Yun.

  "Hmph." Pang Tiānshēng let out a cold snort and said, "Then I'd like to see who dares to compete with me for this opportunity." Pang Tiānshēng's gloomy gaze swept across the people around him, the threat in his eyes was completely naked and unhidden.

  Originally, there were still several inner disciples who were eager to try, but at this time they all quickly lowered their heads and didn't dare to look directly at Pang Tiānshēng. The top ten figures in the inner sect were not people they could afford to provoke.

  Qu Han and Ge Sheng slowly retreated half a step, both worried that Kong Fangxuan would choose them to supervise Su Yun's equipment refinement, in order not to offend the powerful Pang Tiānshēng it was better to keep a distance from Kong Fang.

  "Junior brother, I'll supervise Su Yun's equipment refinement then." Seeing that everyone else was afraid of Pang Tian Sheng, Sun Hao stepped forward, he couldn't let Kong Fang lose face.

  Pang Tian's gloomy gaze suddenly shot towards Sun Hao, full of warning. At this time, Pang Tian had not a shred of elegance left in him, but was completely a ruthless killer with blood-stained hands, exuding an aura of evil and cruelty all over his body.

  Kong Fang smiled when he heard Sun Hao's words, but Kong Fang slightly shook his head.

  Kong Fang is not afraid of Pang Tian Sheng, but when Sun Hao goes out to do tasks and runs into Pang Tian Sheng, it will be very dangerous. Therefore, Kong Fang will not let Sun Hao do things that offend Pang Tian Sheng.

  Sun Hao was stunned, wondering who Kong Fang would choose to supervise Su Yun's equipment refinement. Now the people around him didn't dare offend Pang Tian Sheng, even if Kong Fang named someone else to supervise Su Yun, but the person being named would absolutely refuse Kong Fang, once refused, Kong Fang would be humiliated.

  Kong Fang took in the expressions of the people around him, but he didn't care at all. These people were no different from a stranger to him, and even if they all abandoned him, Kong Fang wouldn't have cared.

  Kong Fang turned his head and smiled at Fang Tou, who was like a shadow behind him: "Junior brother, you go supervise Su Yun's equipment refining. As long as she follows the rules, just watch from the side."

  "Yes, senior brother." Fang Tou didn't hesitate at all and immediately responded. Moreover, in Fang Tou's eyes, there wasn't a hint of worry or fear, but rather a thread of excitement.

  This left the people around speechless, finding that both the master and his followers were not quite right in the head. The master had very irrationally deeply offended Pang Tian Sheng, while the follower was also a weirdo, not only did he not dissuade his master, but instead excitedly accepted this task of offending a powerful person.

  "Good, very good." Pang Tiānshēng nodded slightly, his originally somewhat gloomy face now revealing a hint of a smile. "What you've done is truly memorable; it seems I won't be able to forget you even if I want to." Afterwards, Pang Tiānshēng walked off to the side, clearly no longer planning to intervene in this equipment-refining competition.

  However, the people around him heard a hint of coldness in Peng Tian's words, and one by one they couldn't help but look at Kong Fang and his two companions. Kong Fang and Sun Hao didn't show much change on their faces, looking very calm. But when everyone looked at Fang Tou, they were taken aback. Fang Tou was not calm at all, nor was he fearful, but instead had a face full of excitement and anticipation.

  Everyone was speechless again, to what extent did this brain need to be stupid to feel excited and expected to offend a powerful inner disciple like Pang Tian Sheng. If it weren't for the wrong occasion, everyone would have liked to ask Fang Tou what he was expecting.

  Having seen Kong Fang's move, the square head naturally expected Kong Fang to make another move. When Kong Fang dealt with Li Sen and Yin Wanshui last night, the powerful Fa Li, strong Tao Fa, and elegant movements all made the square head's heart flutter.

  As for whether Kong Fang would be a worthy opponent for Pang Tian Sheng, this was something that had never occurred to him.

  Jian saw that Kong Fang had already chosen the supervisors, and Luo Qing couldn't wait to start refining the equipment. He immediately took out the materials he and Su Yun had pre-selected from his storage ring. The identical materials were divided into two small piles, each with five types of materials.

  "Hand over your storage rings for now, and I'll take care of them. Then you can quickly enter the forging room with these materials and forge your weapons." At this moment, Luo Qing couldn't wait for the two to finish forging their weapons so she could humiliate the defeated Kong Fang and vent out all the resentment that had been building up in her heart.

  Just thinking of Kong Fang being defeated by Su Yun and losing face, Luo Qing's heart suddenly became excited, wishing that time would pass quickly, so that moment would come sooner.

  Lu Qing didn't even realize that her obsession with surpassing Sun Hao had unconsciously turned into an appreciation for Kong Fang's defeated and disheartened appearance, his face filled with shame.

  The disciples in the inner hall and some of the closer entry-level disciples observed the five materials, each with a strange expression.

  "It's actually Ice Spirit Wood, Frost Meteorite, Thousand Luminous Sand, Hundred Shattered Gold and Flame Cover Pearl, these five materials. Although they are not extremely precious, the requirements for controlling Fire Attribute Energy are too high for these five materials. If one can't control Fire Attribute Energy well, then even the first step of removing impurities can't be done properly, let alone the subsequent steps of crafting the prototype and quenching."

  Everyone began to discuss in low voices, clearly no one had expected Luo Qing to use these five materials as the materials for this equipment trial. It was clear to everyone present that Kong Fang possessed a single earth-element affinity and had no connection with fire-element at all. If he were to refine weapons using these materials without strong control over fire-element, he would completely destroy them, not even able to produce a low-grade weapon.

  Obviously, Luo Qing did this on purpose. She wanted Kong Fang to fail completely and utterly in refining anything.

  Sun Hao's face turned ugly, and he couldn't help but ask: "Luo Qing, you're going too far, aren't you?"

  "Where did we go too far?" Luo Qing sneered.

  "To refine a weapon with these five materials, one must have extremely strong control over the power of fire. You all know that Gong is a earth-attribute innate talent, yet you still did this."

  "Haha, what a joke." Su Yun suddenly sneered and coldly said: "Since it's a refining tool competition, naturally any material can be used. If because Kong Shixiong can't control the fire well, then these materials won't be used. What significance does this refining tool competition have?"

  Sun Hao wanted to say something but was stopped by Kong Fang.

  "Senior brother, there's no need to say more. They're doing this on purpose and no matter how much you say, it won't change anything. Since they want to use these materials to compete, then let them have their way." Kong Fang removed the storage ring and tossed it to Luo Qing, then picked up the five materials from the ground and held them in his arms. He turned around and walked towards Huo Yun Hall. From start to finish, Kong Fang's expression remained extremely calm.

  As for mastering the power of fire? For Kong Fang, it's just a joke. He refines his equipment with the power of earth, not fire, so what's there to worry about? On the contrary, the more difficult materials are to refine, the more advantageous they are for Kong Fang, as this can better reflect the high and low levels of refining equipment.

  "Look at him, he should have given up already. It's normal anyway, the Earthly Departed Heavenly Gift is a waste of the sect's resources to learn alchemy. The earlier he fails and leaves, the more resources the sect can save." A fellow inner disciple beside Pang Tiānshēng said indifferently.

  Upon hearing this, several other inner disciples who were following Pang Tian Sheng couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  Kong Fang turned his head and glanced at Pang Tian Sheng and the others, his mouth slightly curled up, "Since you're all so confident that I'll definitely lose, why don't we make a bet on it?"

  "I'd rather not bet with you, I'm afraid of losing face." Pang Tian Sheng glanced at Kong Fang sideways.

  "Anyone can talk big, if you don't dare to bet, just say it straight out, no one will laugh at you." As he said that no one would laugh, Kong Fang himself couldn't help but chuckle first.

  Pang Tian's face sank, "Alright, we'll bet with you, but I'm afraid you can't afford to lose."

  "Then let's talk about your bet," Kong Fang said calmly.

  "I have a lot of things on me, but they're all too precious to use as stakes. Besides, even if I did put them up, you wouldn't be able to come up with anything of equivalent value, so..."

  Pang Tian Sheng's words were cut off by Kong Fang, "If you have something valuable, take it out. Don't just be all talk and no action, looking good but breaking at the slightest touch."

  Pang Tiānshēng didn't say a word, but his eyes were fixed intently on Kong Fang. If this weren't the Temple of Machines, Pang Tiānshēng would have immediately struck out and killed Kong Fang.

  "Fine! Let you see." Pang Tian Sheng's tone was extremely heavy.

  Pang Tiānshēng's hand brushed over the storage ring, and he suddenly had a jade bottle in his hand. A thread of heavenly energy emanated from Pang Tiānshēng's hand, spreading outwards.

  Feeling this aura, all the inner disciples' eyes suddenly lit up, and their gazes instantly became extremely fervent.

  "There is a drop of Fashen in this jade bottle, if I give it to the sect, I can exchange it for at least 1,000 points of contribution. I'll use this to bet with you, do you dare?" Feeling the scorching gaze of the surrounding crowd, Pang Tiānshēng regained a hint of superiority and coldly smiled at Kǒng Fāng.

  Kong Fang's eyes also lit up slightly, although he had more than 40 drops of Fa Yuan, these Fa Yuan could not be taken out at all, otherwise it would be easy to get into trouble. After all, a newly promoted Nei Tang disciple took out precious Fa Yuan, which was already an extraordinary encounter.

  The strange encounter that a novice disciple with no strength would have is not a strange encounter, but a graveyard. There is no kind of strange encounter that an ordinary person like a novice disciple can get. When Kong Fang was in the secret mansion at the beginning, his strength played a very important role in surviving to the end.

  Therefore, although Kong Fang had many valuable items on him, he couldn't exchange them for contribution points. However, if he could win over Pang Tian Sheng's valuable items, then he would be able to openly go to the Lingbao Hall and exchange them for contribution points.

  "What about you?" Kong Fang turned his gaze to the several inner disciples standing beside Pang Tian Sheng.

  Take advantage of it while you can, otherwise this opportunity will be gone once you miss it.