This void gate does not look large on the outside, but inside it is extremely spacious. Thirty-six people stepped through the void gate and stood on either side of the rectangular jade table, still looking spacious.
Although those in the Great Hall of the Vault of Light could not penetrate their divine sense into the gate, they could all clearly see the movements of the thirty-six people. At this moment all of them rose in anticipation, having heard that the materials for the Light Vault entry expedition were just as precious, they only wondered which of these precious expedition materials they were.
The people who entered the Void Gate of the Light Vault were equally worried, not to mention that there were thirty-six people here, and only twenty of them would end up entering the Light Vault. And the further back in the ranking of the expedition, the less they would get.
When all thirty-six people had stood up and taken a jade talisman each, the jade box on the rectangular jade table suddenly opened. A clear dewdrop appeared in front of the crowd, surrounded by water vapour and carrying an icy cold aura of dao rhythm.
What was this? After this dewdrop appeared, not only the many people in the Great Hall of the Light Vault, but also the many master smiths who had come to compete frowned.
Tong Hua carefully transmitted a voice to Ning Cheng, “Brother Ning, what is this thing? I’ve never seen it before, it seems to be ice or water attribute.”
There was some apprehension in Tong Hua’s heart, according to the norm, this first question was the easiest. If she didn’t know the first question, then she must know even less about the rest. It was a good thing that she was only here as a companion, the main person answering the questions was Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng, however, was extremely amazed in his heart, what amazed him was not this material, but the smithing foundation that Zhong Li Bai had given him.
Originally, he had the confidence to come here to help Tong Hua participate in the selection, not because he had read the Refining Basics, but over the years, he had read countless refining jade slips and seen countless introductions to refining materials. These refining material introduction jade slips, he had read from the Jiaquan Mountain. The Jiaquan Mountain was a place where the ancient creation wars had taken place, and the things that existed were naturally not simple. Not only that, he had also read about Lu Dongze’s Utmost Grasses and Trees. The Utmost Grasses and Trees did not only describe alchemical materials, but also artefact-making materials.
It was because of these that he had the confidence to come here for the tournament to identify the materials.
But not only was this dewdrop not in any of the jade slips he had seen, it was also not within the Uma Cao Mu. Rather, it was within the smithing foundation where he had first learnt to smelt.
This Weapon Refining Foundation was indeed extraordinary, and Ning Cheng thought of Zhong Li Bai Eating. Zhong Li Baiyao was just as mysterious a person, and after hearing of his great battle with some Eternal Star Emperors of the Great Central Heaven Sky, there was no more news of him.
Ning Cheng had long guessed that the refining foundation Zhong Li Bai Eating had given him was not ordinary, as the refining method for his Creation Divine Spear was in this book.
The grade of the Creation Divine Spear, that was something that was many grades higher than any divine weapon as well.
“Don’t worry, I know this thing.” Ning Cheng’s divine sense began to inscribe information in the jade talisman.
Don’t look like this mass was similar to a dewdrop and even carried a water vapor dao rhythm, this was an actual fire treasure. This mass was called the Inferno Heart Sacred Marrow, which was condensed from the topmost innate flames.
The dewdrop coalescing out of the flames sounded incredible, but in fact the Inferno Heart Sacred Marrow was coalesced out of the flames.
A flame that can condense the Inferno Heart Sacred Marrow must be an innate flame, a sacred flame that has not been artificially refined. It is absolutely impossible for a flame that has been artificially refined to coalesce the precious Inferno Heart Sacred Marrow.
One of the most important functions of the Inferno Heart Sacred Pith is to allow a flame to advance to the level of a Sacred Flame, and there are also Sun Hearts and Tai Yin Hearts that can allow a flame to advance to the level of a Sacred Flame.
But the Inferno Heart Sacred Marrow was far more precious than the Sun Heart and Taiyin Heart. The Inferno Heart Sacred Pith does not only allow God-ranked flames to advance to Saint Flame, even flames that are limited by the flame itself and cannot advance to Saint Flame, the Inferno Heart Sacred Pith can also allow them to advance to Saint Flame.
It could be said that obtaining the Inferno Heart Sacred Marrow was the same as obtaining a Sacred Flame.
Ning Cheng sent the engraved jade talisman into the hole above the jade box before he said to Tong Hua, “I’ve already answered it, there should be no problem.”
Ning Cheng did not transmit his voice for these words, but said them directly. A yellow-haired man standing beside Ning Cheng heard Ning Cheng’s words and dropped his gaze on Ning Cheng for a while. Guessing that Ning Cheng’s fierce reputation was notorious, he did not say anything more.
Half a column of incense later, the round hole above the jade box gradually closed up, and some of the refiners who did not answer could only cast the blank jade talismans in their hands.
When everyone’s jade talismans were put in, the rankings came out in less than ten breaths.
In first place was Master Seed Mirror, and in second place was a long, thin man named Si Tonghe. Despite his careful answers, Ning Cheng was still only in fifth place.
Seeing Ning Cheng on the list, Tong Hua breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to Ning Cheng, “I thought that Master Seed Mirror had gone to the Moran Kingdom Domain, but I didn’t expect him to come to the competition on behalf of the Sacred Sect of the Sacred Domain’s Yi Clan.”
“Yi Clan?” It seemed like Ning Cheng had heard of this surname somewhere.
Tong Hua explained on the side, “The Yi Clan is the number one strongest surname in the Holy Domain of Light, and among the ten great Dao Monarchs, Yi Wenmao’s strength was heard to be the strongest.”
Ning Cheng nodded, he had some suspicions that Master Seed Mirror’s trip to the Moron Kingdom Domain was a smokescreen put out by the Yi Clan, and only Tong Hua would fall for it. Imagine a powerful artifact smithing powerhouse like Master Seed Mirror, how could he not participate in the competition to enter the Light Vault?
After the first gate competition at the Light Vault, the total number of people ranked above was thirteen.
After these thirteen rankings came out, the jade table faded away, and a wide white jade passage appeared behind what was originally a chaotic area. At the end of the white jade passage, a large door once again appeared.
Those who did not make the list all walked helplessly out of the first void gate of the Light Vault, having waited for a long time to come here just to answer one question, or rather to leave without answering the first question.
The people in the Great Hall of the Bright Vault were all a little surprised, the thirteen people on the list, apart from Ning Cheng, were basically the most famous artifact-making masters in the Bright Sky. They hadn’t expected that the Tong Family had casually given such an important matter to Tong Hua, who had casually found an unknown artificer to get the fifth in the first round.
If this was luck, the Tong family’s luck was simply too good.
Even Tong Shi was surprised, and to be honest, he didn’t think much of Ning Cheng either. Alchemy, especially identifying alchemy materials, was not about strength or weakness, but experience and insight.
Ning Cheng was just as surprised, he also did not expect that he had recognised the Inflamed Heart Sacred Marrow and answered in such detail, but as a result, he only got a fifth place. Who said that the people of Bright Sky were not good at smithing? These guys were all very strong.
Because thirteen people were on the list, there were only twenty-six people at the rectangular jade table at the second gate.
Tong Hua was in a good mood, as long as Ning Cheng could answer this second question correctly, then it was almost certain that he would enter the top ten. Even if Ning Cheng could not answer it, he would still have a certain chance of entering the top ten.
The jade box in front of the second jade table slowly opened, and in the middle of the jade box was a fist-sized pale yellow crystal. This crystal was just like an ordinary stone, with no dao rhythm, no fluctuations, and not even a single stripe.
Ning Cheng recalled the pebbles on the beach, which were also as smooth as this. Unfortunately, this kind of identification material could not be touched with the hand.
“Brother Ning ……” As soon as Tang Hua looked at just this fist-sized pale yellow crystal, she knew that she still could not recognize it. He could only land his gaze on Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng frowned slightly, this kind of thing gave him a familiar, yet not very familiar feeling. To be honest, he had not seen this object before.
“I’m afraid I won’t be able to recognise it this time.” Ning Cheng said with some loss, before he came here to participate in the selection, he had come with the intention that he would definitely be able to enter the top three. And now he couldn’t recognise it at the second level, which made him very disappointed.
Once he could not recognise the second level, it would be meaningless if he could recognise all the materials that followed. This kind of competition was supposed to rely on some luck. If he could not pass the second level, then he would not be qualified to go to the third level, let alone the fourth and fifth levels.
A trace of loss flashed across Tong Hua’s eyes, even though it was already a surprise to her that Ning Cheng had made it here. But now that Ning Cheng really couldn’t recognise her, she was still a little lost. But then she persuaded, “Brother Ning, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter if we enter this Bright Vault or not. I came here originally to spell my luck.”
This was not a nonsense statement from Tong Hua, after knowing that Master Seed Mirror was not in the Moran Royal Domain, she had no intention of being able to enter the Bright Vault.
Seeing that some of the alchemists were already carving jade talismans, Ning Cheng waved his hand at Tong Hua, “Miss Tong Hua, you don’t need to get frustrated first, I’ll try again.”
As it was a loss anyway, Ning Cheng simply penetrated his divine sense into this pale yellow crystal.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense easily penetrated into the exterior of the pale yellow crystal, but when his divine sense was about to penetrate into the centre of this crystal, it naturally slipped away, it just lacked that little bit to enter.
What the hell is this thing? Ning Cheng thought of this and his divine sense exploded and blasted straight through. Since it was something that was brought out for examination, it couldn’t be easily broken by his divine sense blast, right?
The divine Sense Explosion swept up Ning Cheng’s Dao rhyme aura and this time drove straight in, directly into the very centre of this pale yellow crystal.
A wretched shouting sound came out, and Ning Cheng subconsciously shivered. This kind of mournful sound was too creepy, as if a person was being hardened and refined ……
Refining? An image suddenly flashed in Ning Cheng’s mind. This pale yellow crystal was not some natural material for refining, but a Yuan Shen. There was a supreme powerhouse that had refined a person all alive and finally condensed his or her Yuan Shen into a crystal.
What a vicious fellow, Ning Cheng sucked in a cold breath as he became more and more certain that his guess was correct. Seeing half a column of incense time fading away, Ning Cheng did not think much about it. His first purpose of coming here was to enter the Treasure Vault of Light, as for investigating who did this, he did not have the ability to do so, nor did he have the meaning to do so.
This pale yellow crystal was called a soul crystal because it had been refined and condensed by the Yuan Shen. With the fastest speed, Ning Cheng engraved all the things he guessed into the jade talisman, and then sent the talisman into the round hole above the jade box that had already started to close.