Chapter 7 This victory is really not challenging

  Sun Ming had been eager to try out from the start, and now that Ling Feng said the big comparison was beginning, he couldn't help but feel excited all over his face, thinking to himself "It's finally starting."

  "This time, the sect's equipment trial is divided into outer and inner gates. Since the outer gate trials take relatively less time, they will serve as the opening match for the overall competition." said Ling Feng Dao.

  "The trial at the outer gate is very simple, and you don't need to be nervous," said Ling Feng. "I'll explain the rules below, so listen carefully."

  "In fact, the purpose of the outer gate trial is to examine the depth of your cultivation, and at the same time observe each of your innate talents for refining equipment. Every session has three people who can enter the inner gate, I hope you won't hold back later, do you understand?" said Ling Feng.

  "It's still preserved, and there is an opportunity for anyone to make the most of it." A man with a white and chubby build wearing a green shirt said behind Sun Ming.

  "Brother, are you also an outer sect disciple? I haven't seen you before, are you new here? My name is Zhao Dabao, what's your surname?" said the fatty.

  "My surname is Sun, and my name is Ming." Sun Ming replied with a cold sweat. This guy's name was too shocking, a cultivator named Dabao, although I'm already not very cultivator-like being named Sun Ming, but this one... truly, the strong have their own strong rivals, there are heavens beyond heavens, and mountains beyond mountains. Sun Ming thought to himself.

  "Sun Ming, where did you work before?" Zhao Dabao asked.

  "I used to be in charge of miscellaneous tasks in Cang Xugu, and I didn't often stay on Qishen Mountain, so it's normal that you haven't seen me before." Sun Ming replied.

  "Oh, I admire you so much! Working in a place like that for twenty years would have driven me crazy long ago. I, Zhao Dabao, don't often admire people, but today I truly admire you from the bottom of my heart. So, I've decided to acknowledge you as our leader." Zhao Dabao said with an adorable expression on his face. Sun Ming felt all the goosebumps on his body disappearing.

  "This, let's talk about it later, first getting through the trial and entering the inner gate is more important." Sun Ming said with a face full of black lines.

  "Ah, whatever the boss says goes." Zhao Dabao seemed to have decided that Sun Ming was his superior, and his resolute expression made Sun Ming break out in a cold sweat.

  "Actually, the method of trial is already known to everyone. Later, Lingyuan Shidi will refine a very simple magical instrument, and you all need to carefully observe it. After the observation ends, you will start to replicate one by yourselves. Whoever replicates the fastest and with performance closest to the instrument refined by Lingyuan Shidi will have the opportunity to enter the inner gate. Of course, only the top three in overall level will have this opportunity. You all need to grasp it well."

  "Lingyuan, Shidi, get ready, it's about to start. You all need to take a good look too," said Lingfeng.

  Only to see in the central square standing with eyes closed, Lingyuan slowly walked to the front of the outer door disciples, and casually sucked up a piece of material piled up in a corner of the square.

  "I'll only do it once, so watch closely." Lingyuan said with a straight face.

  "What's so great about him? He's just more talented than us and started practicing earlier, that's all." Zhao Dabao said with a disgruntled expression.

  Lingyuan apparently heard it, hummed and ignored him, started the first step of refining equipment with spiritual fire, a red and white spiritual fire began to melt the material, as if the temperature around had risen, visible The high temperature of this spiritual fire. In a short while, the material melted. Sunming watched for a while and didn't feel anything, because Sunming did such things every day, and more complicated than what Lingyuan was doing now. Sunming also remained silent, quietly waiting for Lingyuan to finish refining equipment.

  "Wow, Master Lingyuan's spiritual fire is so beautiful!" said Outer Sect Disciple A.

  "What a huge power! Is this the legendary Three Flavors True Fire?" A male disciple said in a dazed manner.

  "How disgusting" Sun Ming looked at these disciples with various expressions and couldn't help but feel a wave of nausea.

  "What? There's still a woman?" Sun Ming asked in puzzlement.

  "Boss, you don't know, do you? Her name is Ouyang Mingyue, and she's the younger sister of that genius disciple from the inner sect, Ouyang Xingyue. Although she looks similar to her older sister, her talent is far inferior to her sister's exceptional abilities." However, being able to endure loneliness and cultivate for twenty years in the outer sect is also quite remarkable," Zhao Dabao said.

  "But she's too cold and proud, I haven't seen her say a few words in all these years, this point is actually similar to you, Old Big." Zhao Dabao smiled mischievously at Sun Ming.

  "Take a closer look and don't be so cheeky here, if you want to acknowledge me as the boss, let's talk about it inside." Sun Ming said with a gloomy face.

  Just as Sun Ming was talking to Zhao Da Bao, Ling Yuan was about to complete his equipment refinement work. A long sword with a pretty good appearance appeared in Ling Yuan's hand.

  "Alright, have you all taken a good look at the refining method for this Cold Sparrow Sword? This sword can be considered a low-grade artifact, although it's the lowest level of treasure, but it can still amplify the cold attribute of your true yuan power. You need to refine this sword in the shortest time possible, and we will select three disciples to enter the inner gate based on the order of completion and quality. Refining this type of artifact doesn't require any special skills or consideration for how to embed arrays or make the materials work together perfectly, all you need is your spiritual fire to smelt and refine it. I'll stop here, the rest is up to you." Lingshuang said.

  "Alright, everyone go get your own materials. Note that the materials are all the same, just ordinary cold iron, don't waste your brain on selecting them." said Ling Feng.

  After a while, Ling Feng saw that everyone had taken their materials and sat down cross-legged, so he announced the start of this grand competition.

  Sun Ming's face was gloomy, is that it? He had thought it would be difficult, but there was no challenge at all. The enthusiasm he had accumulated for twenty years was instantly gone.

  "Disciple, you must not have such thoughts. This is just an internal test. Do you still want to fail in refining the spiritual instrument?" Cloud Ancestor said in Sun Ming's sea of consciousness.

  "But Master, isn't this going too far!!" Sun Ming said.

  "What's with that? You're already in the opening period, and this thing can be refined even by a foundation-building cultivator. Among these people, except for a few late-stage foundation-builders, there's no one who can threaten you. The real cultivation begins after entering the inner gate, don't become arrogant now, do you know?" Cloud Ancestor said sternly.

  "Alright, Master," Sun Ming said weakly.

  "Who knows, you might really need a little brother, hurry up and start." Yun Zhongzi's mysterious smile reminded Sun Ming.

  "Multiple small tries? Cut it, even that big treasure can pass the test!" Sun Ming muttered to himself in his heart, facing the cold iron exercise method. The spiritual fire slowly spread across the surface of the cold iron, although this test was not very challenging for Sun Ming, but he really used materials with attributes to refine equipment for the first time, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited. Because over the years, Sun Ming had only refined one treasure, which was called "Fan Tian Yin" (the first big brick). When refining Fan Tian Yin, Sun Ming used those discarded worthless materials. "Today, I'll be extravagant for once." Sun Ming thought to himself.

  "It's really pathetic, a piece of Cold Iron has made you so happy, if you were to encounter Nine Heavens Profound Iron or Heaven Gold Sand, wouldn't you be overjoyed to death?! Change your Spiritual Fire to the same color as ordinary Cultivators, let them discover that you're an anomaly, it might cause trouble." Yun Zhongzi reminded Sun Mingdao.

  "Master, don't worry about it. I can still think of this matter. Besides, the Hongmeng Purple Fire is my biggest secret, and except for Master, I won't tell anyone else." Sun Mingdao said.

  In just a few moments, Sun Ming's cold iron had melted. He took a distant glance at the Lingyuan-refined Cold Sparrow Sword and began to transform the molten metal in front of him into the shape of the Cold Sparrow Sword. Just as he finished refining it and was about to raise his hand to signal, he heard a female voice say...

  "Lingfeng Shibo, I've finished refining it." Ouyang Ming said with a expressionless face.

  Sun Ming heard this sentence, his hand shook and almost dropped the Han Que sword. Just as Sun Ming was about to shout again.

  "Lingfeng Shibo, I'm done for too." Fat Zhao Dabao said with an innocent face, not forgetting to wink at Sun Ming.

  "Master uncle, I'm done too!" Sun Ming Sheng was afraid someone would shout again in front of him, so he hastily shouted out loud, and also extinguished the faint spark that the brother in front of him had just managed to ignite. The man looked at Sun Ming with a face full of resentment, making him break into a cold sweat.

  Two hours later, a total of nine people successfully refined the Frost Sparrow Sword, while many others failed to melt even a single piece of Frost Iron, with one person only managing to burn a black spot the size of a sesame seed on their Frost Iron, leaving some younger disciples of the Spiritual Son Sect crying and laughing at the same time.

  The assessment is simple, from back to front, nine people start with the last person who refined the Cold Sparrow Sword, holding their own refined Cold Sparrow Sword and Lingyuan's Cold Sparrow Sword for a cross-cut. Whoever's Cold Sparrow Sword can be preserved in the best condition after the cross-cut will have a better ranking.

  The first six were quite ordinary, Lingyuan's Hanque Sword didn't have a single scratch, while theirs either had a huge gap or broke directly.

  It was Sun Ming's turn now. With a sly smile on his face, he walked to the right side of Ling Yuan, who was holding his sword, and swung his Hanque Sword down towards Ling Yuan's sword.

  With a loud crash, some people closed their eyes and thought that Sun Ming's sword would be like theirs, maybe with a gap or maybe it would break directly.

  As a loud noise of something falling to the ground was heard, people thought that Sun Ming's sword had broken. Many were secretly delighted at his misfortune, while others felt sorry for him.

  "It's impossible" a loud male voice said, Sun Ming's voice? I've never heard Sun Ming's voice before, this voice is clearly more familiar. With full of doubts they opened their eyes.

  Indeed, the sword was broken, and this voice wasn't Sun Ming's either.

  Soon they saw that Lingyuan's right hand, which was full of incredulity, was holding a broken sword. And then there were even more people with faces full of incredulity.