Chapter 162 - A Hundred Tournaments Have Been Overshadowed By This Object (1/2)

"Why did someone ring the bell?"

"That shouldn't be. Only four minutes have passed."

According to the rules of the competition, one could only ring the bell in advance when the refinement was completed.

If one's strength was insufficient, one could wait until the end of the competition. If the refinement was not completed, one would not be punished. At most, the points would not be good.

If you pressed the bell before the refining was completed, you would definitely be punished, and the punishment would be quite severe.

Even such a bad thing would be recorded in your resume. It would have a great impact on things like finding a job in the future.

After all, if you dared to abstain in such a large-scale competition, what would you do if the company asked you to take on the job in the future?

Which company would still dare to hire you?

Therefore, as long as one did not have a problem with their brain, they would basically not do this.

The host reacted very quickly and immediately shouted,

"We just heard a contestant ring the bell. The competition has only been going on for four minutes. I wonder if this contestant accidentally bumped into it. Director, please help us cut the scene and take a look at this contestant. Did he encounter any problems?"

The director quickly switched the surveillance camera to the competition seat that Ye Xiao was in.

Frankly speaking, if it was not for him pressing that button, the director would definitely not switch to his seat.

Broadcasting required viewership ratings to earn money. What everyone wanted to see were those talented contestants, geniuses like Yu Qiuxuan, Song Qiufeng, and the rest, not a nameless junior.

However, when they moved the surveillance camera to that competition seat and saw that the entire competition seat was empty, they were instantly stunned.

"What's going on? Where is this kid?"

"That's right. Why did he disappear?"

"Could he have run away? But even if he ran away, there should be surveillance cameras. Why didn't he capture it?"

"Eh, look, there's a short blade on the table. Could he have refined it?"

Some people had already noticed a weapon lying quietly on the table.

The host was a little shocked. He had no idea what was going on.

"Where did this contestant go? What does he mean by putting an iron sword on the table?"

Everyone was puzzled, but at that moment, a few professors in the judges' seats suddenly stood up.

Among them were Zhang Guangyang, Chen Danian, and other top artifact masters in the country.

"Wait a minute, that sword seems to be out of place."

The expressions of the professors were extremely grave as they all stared intently at that weapon.

The entire audience was naturally far from their level and could see through the trick. The two emcees hurriedly asked for everyone's thoughts.

Zhang Guangyang and the other professors did not pay attention to them. Instead, they quickly went up to Ye Xiao's competition seat and picked up the treasured sword. When they really came into close contact with this sword, the professors were so excited that their entire bodies trembled non-stop.

"That's right! It really is! I didn't expect that it would really be a lesser imperial weapon!"

"My God, this person is really amazing. He actually used the competition materials and refined a lesser imperial weapon in just four minutes! Just how strong is his artifact refinement attainments?"

It was not that the professors present could not refine an imperial weapon, but if they wanted to refine an imperial weapon, they had to at least gather enough excellent materials, and after several days of dedicated forging, only then could they refine an imperial weapon, and there was even a certain failure rate!

However, the other party only had four minutes, and the materials were commonly used in the competition.

If the materials were a little better, they had no doubt that Ye Xiao could easily refine an imperial weapon!

Moreover, the time used would not be much longer than four minutes.

Just that skill of refining weapons had already killed all the judges present.

It was killing all the judges present, not the participants!

How monstrous was that skill?

One had to know that these judges were all professors selected from the various major martial arts colleges in the country.

Their standards were so strong that they could not be said to be the best in the nine provinces, but they were also among the most superior ones.

The other party alone was enough to look down on the high-class blacksmiths' standards of the top martial arts colleges in the nine provinces.

The audience looked even more confused. The host once again asked,

"Professors, what is a lesser imperial weapon? Is it a new professional term? Or is this weapon made very special?"

In the world, there was not much information about imperial techniques and imperial weapons. Firstly, ordinary people could hardly touch it. Secondly, that kind of thing involved some secrets and was very powerful, so it could not be easily shown to others.

Zhang Guangyang looked at the short sword in his hand, took a deep breath, and said with a serious face,

"You can understand that this sword is the strongest work in the history of the Nine Provinces Competition. Compared to us professor-level judges, this contestant's refining ability is probably not inferior. In fact, his strength far surpasses ours!"

"What!"

"This is impossible, right? The other party is just an ordinary contestant!"

"Absolutely impossible. If he can be so monstrous, I'll eat sh*t live."

"It's a lie. It's definitely a lie."

When those words were said, the entire venue was in an uproar.

One had to know that the contestants were all young people under the age of 30. A refiner under the age of 30 actually produced the strongest work in the Nine Provinces Competition?

Moreover, his refining strength might even surpass that of professors like Zhang Guangyang?

That was a joke, right?