Published: February 25, 2025
Fear from the soul!
“Zhongli Bo, if you want this young sovereign to guide you a bit, I might put aside past grievances and tell you the flaws in your refining.”
Tan Yun looked at Zhongli Bo with a half-smile, “But if you use this assessment to cover up your ignorance, testing this young sovereign with content you don’t even understand, then I truly look down on you.”
"The old man must endure humiliation to uncover the flaws!" Zhongli Bo thought to himself, then looked down at Tan Yun and said, "That's right, I truly don't know where the flaws lie, but as long as the young sovereign speaks them out, I will judge the truth of your words!"
"Alright, this young sovereign will let go of our past grievances and tell you today." Tan Yun glanced at Zhongli Bo, and his next words, rather than revealing flaws, seemed to severely humiliate Zhongli Bo.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Tan Yun remained composed, his words sharp and precise, "Listen carefully, this young sovereign will only say it once."
"First, on the Heavenly Punishment Continent, there are six types of extraterrestrial materials known as the six great meteorites: Extraterrestrial Refined Gold Stone, Heavenly Cold Meteoric Iron, Heavenly Outer Black Meteoric Iron, Heavenly Outside Fallen Mysterious Iron, Outer Purple Meteoric Iron, and Heavenly Extreme Thunder Iron."
"Above these six extraterrestrial materials, there is a rare material that has descended to the mortal realm, which is the refining material you used for this sword: Fallen Mysterious Cold Witch Iron."
Upon hearing this, Zhongli Bo was shocked! He had consulted countless ancient texts to learn this, yet he never expected Tan Yun to see through it at a glance.
Tan Yun continued, "This Fallen Mysterious Cold Witch Iron is an extremely cold substance, containing a unique death force from the witch lineage. According to classical records, this iron is hidden in the Galaxy Inferno and is common in the nine heavens immortal realm, but for cultivators from various mortal planes, it is a rare treasure."
The crowd listened intently...
"However!" Tan Yun stated, "Fallen Mysterious Cold Witch Iron is extremely hard for us and very difficult to refine."
"First, during refinement, one must possess a very powerful ice attribute destiny true fire to resist and freeze this iron, preventing the cold air from leaking out. Once it leaks out, even if the Flying Sword is successfully refined, its power will be significantly reduced!"
"But you, Zhongli Bo, completely failed to understand this, resulting in the complete loss of the cold air within this iron, and the coldness emanating now is less than one percent of what it originally was."
"I can tell without thinking that you pretended to be clever, using your fire attribute destiny true fire to burn this iron, and only when it reached the point you thought you could control it, did you begin the refining process!"
At this point, Zhongli Bo was drenched in sweat. He never expected that Tan Yun could guess his thoughts so clearly!
Then, Tan Yun added, "Secondly, Zhongli Bo, your fire attribute destiny true fire is too weak in front of this iron. You have no ability to completely refine out the over a hundred impurities within this iron!"
"Of course, from the sword body, it can be judged that your method of refining this sword is somewhat skilled, but you appeared hesitant when refining millions of runes within the sword body!"
"The above reasons alone are enough to lead to the Flying Sword you refined being a subpar item among top-quality Holy Artifacts."
"Of course, besides this, there are many more reasons. For instance, the grade of the refining furnace you used was a bit low."
"For another, during the initial stages of refining the Flying Sword, you were too timid, which not only made the fire temperature a bit unstable but also lower than it should be."
"Moreover, your biggest mistake was that half an hour before the Flying Sword was to come out of the refining furnace, the fire temperature was already too low."