Avenue Stowaway

When Kong Fang discovered that someone was watching him secretly, he knew without hesitation that it was Zhao Yong's men. After all, Zhao Yong was the only one who had a grudge against him and threatened to get rid of him.

"You're staring at me so soon. It seems you're worried that I'll run away. Humph, I won't run away. If I run away, who will come to settle the score with you?" Kong Fang's face was cold.

After looking at the dagger in his hand, Kong Fang decided that it would be better not to let Zhao Yong and others know about it for the time being, so he immediately turned back to the house, found a piece of rag, and wrapped the dagger in his hand tightly. Kong Fang then went out again and went straight to Huoyun Hall.

After Kong Fang left, Qian Ziguang, who was hiding behind a small mound, came out.

"You're pretending pretty well. You really think you're an equipment cultivator who can refine spiritual treasures. Humph, I'd like to see how long you can pretend." With a sneer, Qian Ziguang secretly followed him.

More than half an hour later, Kong Fang arrived at the Huoyun Hall on another mountain.

The Fire Cloud Hall was built in the belly of the mountain, and most of the area inside was made of independent weapon refining rooms made of cold and dark stones. These weapon refining rooms had underground fire brought up from the ground for the weapon sect's people to refine weapons. Apart from these weapon refining rooms, other places belonged to the Fire Cloud Hall, and ordinary disciples were not allowed to enter.

Kong Fang went straight to the weapon refining area, walked forward along the ground paved with cold and dark stones, and observed the weapon refining rooms on both sides of the aisle.

The biennial assessment period was approaching, so many people went to Huoyun Hall to refine weapons and armor. As a result, every refining room along the way was occupied by someone.

But this is normal. Those who are more confident in their refining ability will generally start refining weapons or armor early. Most of those who start refining now are not sure, just like Kong Fang, who will not come to Huoyun Hall to refine weapons until the last minute. After all, there are only so many refining materials in hand. If you fail, you can't pass the assessment.

"Novice disciples can only use the lowest-level yellow-level refining room. It would be strange if they could refine good weapons like this." Kong Fang muttered helplessly, "Although I can't control the flame, the quenching liquid in the black-level refining room is much better than the quenching liquid in the yellow-level refining room. If I can go to the black-level refining room, I should be more confident of passing this assessment."

The quenching liquid is prepared by the Weapon Sect. The levels of earth fire and quenching liquid in the four levels of refining rooms, 'Heaven, Earth, Black and Yellow' are different. The Yellow level is the worst refining room, and the quenching liquid is naturally the worst.

"Junior brother, what you just said is not right." The sudden voice from behind interrupted Kong Fang's thoughts.

Kong Fang was shocked. His spirit was just beginning to develop, and his perception had become much stronger. But he didn't even notice someone was almost walking behind him.

Kong Fang immediately stopped and turned to look behind him.

Two young men in their teens walked towards Kong Fang. Both of them looked very ordinary and were dressed very simply, but the young man walking in front had a very special temperament that made it impossible for people who saw him to ignore his presence.

"I wonder who the two senior brothers are..." Kong Fang looked at them puzzledly.

Before the young man with a special temperament could speak, the young man following him spoke first, "This is Senior Brother Sun Hao from Huoyun Hall. I am Senior Brother Sun Hao's follower. You can call me Zhang De."

Although Zhang De spoke very politely, Kong Fang noticed that there was a hint of arrogance in his eyes.

Although Zhang De was only a follower, he could obtain cultivation techniques and soul refining techniques from the Qi Sect, and from then on he could embark on the path of cultivation. His status was naturally not comparable to that of a beginner disciple who had nothing. If Sun Hao hadn't suddenly spoken, Zhang De would not have wanted to pay any attention to a beginner disciple like Kong Fang.

"This is actually the Sun Hao who refined the low-grade spiritual treasure?" Kong Fang was shocked and couldn't help but look at Sun Hao carefully.

Seeing that Kong Fang didn't say a word and just stared at Sun Hao, Zhang De felt a little dissatisfied. "An entry-level disciple with no status doesn't greet the inner-hall disciples but keeps staring at them. He really doesn't know any rules." Zhang De couldn't help but snorted heavily.

Kong Fang finally reacted after hearing Zhang De's snort. However, he did not salute as Zhang De expected. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "Senior Brother Sun Hao just said that I was wrong. I am stupid. I hope Senior Brother Sun Hao can give me some advice."

Kong Fang came from Earth, and his concepts were somewhat different from those of the people in this world. If other disciples saw this inner-hall disciple who was able to refine spiritual treasures, they would appear extremely respectful even if they did not immediately curry favor with him.

Sun Hao didn't care about Kong Fang's impoliteness. Instead, he explained with a smile: "Although the quenching agent in the Xuan-level refining room is better than that in the Huang-level refining room, refining equipment requires more than just the quenching agent. Removing impurities, fusing various refining materials together to make a blank according to different requirements, and finally awakening the spirit, these three steps are also extremely important for refining equipment. You can't refine a spiritual treasure by relying solely on the quenching step."

Zhang De on the side sneered in his heart with great disdain, "Not many inner-hall disciples can refine spiritual treasures, let alone this ragged disciple who is doing extremely poorly. Speaking of spiritual treasures to such a person, I worry whether he can understand." Zhang De thought with malice in his heart.

"Quenching agent is better. It can improve the quality of weapons, right?" Kong Fang asked in surprise.

Sun Hao chuckled and shook his head. "Junior brother, what you said is both right and wrong. If the two links of removing impurities and manufacturing the weapon blank are not done well, the quenching agent will not be able to stimulate all the characteristics of the various materials in the weapon. At this time, the general quenching agent may only stimulate the characteristics of a small part of the material, while the advanced quenching agent may stimulate slightly more characteristics. But junior brother, you must understand that the characteristics of various materials in a spiritual treasure should complement each other and be in a state of balance."

"If this balance cannot be achieved, the weapon is actually useless. Ordinary quenching agents stimulate less properties of the material, so the damage to this balance is also less. In this case, high-level quenching agents are actually inferior to low-level ones. Do you understand, Junior Brother?" Sun Hao asked with a smile.

Kong Fang's mind suddenly became clear, "Thank you, senior brother, for your guidance." Kong Fang expressed his gratitude from the bottom of his heart.

Although Sun Hao didn't tell him much, it was of great help to him.

Sun Hao smiled and said nothing more, and continued to walk forward with Zhang De. The refining rooms more than 20 meters away were all empty, so Sun Hao took Zhang De to choose a refining room and walked in.

While pondering what Sun Hao had just said, Kong Fang walked into a weapon refining room next to Sun Hao.

"You are worthy of being the one who can refine spiritual treasures. Although this principle seems simple, ordinary people really can't understand it without someone to teach you." Kong Fang had to express his admiration for Sun Hao.

In the weapon refining room where Sun Hao was,

Zhang De stood at the door. After seeing Kong Fang enter the weapon refining room at the side, Zhang De closed the heavy cold stone door.

"Senior brother, you are too kind-hearted. He is just an ordinary disciple, but you actually waste your precious time to instruct him." Zhang De said with a sneer.

Sun Hao glanced at Zhang De, smiled and shook his head, "My time is not as valuable as you say, not to mention that it's just a casual conversation, how much time can it take up?"

Zhang De was dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to say it directly. Zhang De hoped that Sun Hao could use his free time to teach him how to refine weapons, instead of wasting time on a beginner with no future.

"Okay, let's not talk about other things. I'll just teach you how to refine the weapon." Sun Hao said with a faint smile.

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In the weapon refining room nearby, Kong Fang closed the cold stone door and quickly came to the stone pool containing the quenching liquid. Untying the rags on the dagger, Kong Fang excitedly thrust the dagger into the stone pool.

Afterwards, Kong Fang waited on the side. It would take some time for the quenching liquid to stimulate the properties of the various materials in the dagger.

"After quenching, the quality of the dagger will probably be improved." Kong Fang was a little expectant, as this was his first time refining a weapon.

After a while, Kong Fang took the dagger out of the quenching liquid.

Kong Fang, full of anticipation, carefully observed the dagger in his hand. Suddenly, his expression changed abruptly.

"How come there is no change? It shouldn't be like this. Even if the grade hasn't improved much, there should be a slight improvement." Kong Fang was a little anxious when he saw the short sword in his hand without any change. He didn't have much confidence in passing this test, and now the quenching step didn't play any role, which made his hope of passing the test even slimmer.

"It shouldn't be like this." Kong Fang murmured, "I can't control the flames because of my own talent, so I can only use other methods to remove impurities and make the blank in the first two steps. As for the effect, I have no idea. Now if the quenching step can't improve the grade of the dagger, then my weapon refining this time will end in failure."

Kong Fang, anxious in his heart, started to talk nonsense. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration passed through his mind and he was stunned.

"The problem... may lie in the previous two steps of removing impurities and making the blank. Other people rely on earth fire to refine weapons, but I accidentally used the power of earth. Maybe the problem lies here." Kong Fang's eyes were determined, and a glimmer of hope arose in his heart.

Now you have to try no matter what. After all, the worst that can happen if you try is failure, but if you don’t try, you will definitely fail.

Kong Fang walked to the side and opened the formation. Suddenly, underground fire emerged from the ground. The raging flames occupied an area of ​​about six or seven meters.

The destructive power of the earth fire is extremely strong, but it becomes very docile under the restraint of the formation.

Kong Fang stretched out his hand and threw the short sword, which drew an arc and fell into the ground fire in front of him. Although Kong Fang could not control the fire, the formation had a certain control effect on the ground fire, which allowed Kong Fang to use the formation to do some simple things.

Yellow-level refining rooms are usually used by novice disciples, and if novice disciples cannot obtain the method of soul refining, they naturally cannot embark on the path of cultivation. As a result, even if all novice disciples have a high or low talent in the fire element, they cannot directly control the earth fire. The most they can do is rely on their talent in fire to guide the earth fire, and therefore the effect on refining is extremely limited.

Therefore, the formations arranged by the Weapon Sect in the yellow-level refining room have some auxiliary effects on refining.

The dagger was thrown into the underground fire. Kong Fang used the formation to simply control the underground fire and prepared to repeat the step of making the blank.

Suddenly, the surging fire suddenly stopped, like a flame sculpture, and it solidified directly. The sudden change made Kong Fang shocked, and he didn't know what happened.

But soon, the underground fire started to surge again. But not only that, the underground fire surged rapidly, and the power contained in it was more than ten times more terrifying than before. Moreover, all the underground fire actually rushed towards the dagger. For a moment, the dagger was like a bottomless pit, quickly swallowing up a lot of underground fire.

Kong Fang looked at this scene in amazement and even forgot to control the formation.

At the same time, in the dozen or so weapon refining rooms around Kong Fang, those who were refining weapons suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream. These people were originally carefully refining weapons, but the ground fire controlled by the formation suddenly became extremely unstable, and its power suddenly increased, turning all their refining materials into ashes.

"The underground fire is controlled by a formation, so how could it suddenly become unstable? I have never heard of such a thing." In the refining room nearby, Sun Hao looked at the materials that turned into ashes with a look of surprise and doubt.

Zhang De, who was standing next to him and watching, turned green in an instant. These refining materials were all accumulated by him with great effort. At this moment, his heart was bleeding.