Chapter 494
Chapter 494: Sweet and Satisfying!
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
The host was dazed . "He can do that? Why is he doing that?"
"He is trying to buy himself more time!"
Bi Luoling did not conceal the appreciation in her eyes . She continued, "Li Yao has wasted too much time in modifying the furnace in the traditional way at the beginning .
"We all know that, when it comes to the art of refining, capability does not necessarily equal to speed .
"Take the Iron Vine Flower for example . In order to retrieve its essence, you'll have to bake it in the flames of 3,352 degrees for 55 minutes and 43 seconds . One degree higher won't do, and one second shorter won't do, either!
"Even if a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator arrives and improves the temperature of the fire to five thousand degrees instantly, they cannot reduce the amount of time required by even half a second!
"Li Yao wasted a good half hour earlier . Generally speaking, that means he has abandoned the game on his side!
"In order to make up for the time he has lost, he is employing the method of refining and spiritualizing the materials at the same time!
"Spiritualizing materials against the blockage of the thick-walled furnace and under the high temperature and pressure has a high requirement on the perception, spiritual energy quantity, and the model construction ability of the refiner . Even inside the Red Line School, only a handful of experienced experts can perform such operations . But their failure rate is quite high, too . More importantly, they don't have to do it most of the time . "
Master Dustless then continued the explanation . "It appears that Li Yao is quite confident in his skills . He believes that he won't fail and that he can catch up with the other contestants! I'm more curious about him than ever . It is said that he has experienced a lot of fortuitous incidents . I suppose the rumors are true . The world of Cultivators is indeed a vast place where amazing things happen . His performance is truly an eye-opener today!"
Inside the workshop, Li Yao stuck his hands to the furnace . Strings of spiritual energy were unleashed from the depths of his cells and gathered into waves like tidal bores . They surged out and fed back every slight vibration on the wall of the furnace so that Li Yao could sense the changes that were happening to the materials inside it .
For more than an hour, except for the time when he delivered new materials to the furnace, he had maintained the same posture . His muscles rose up time and time again as he exploited his physical strength and the power of his soul .
The high temperature curled his hair . His eyebrow was nearly burnt up . His lips were dry, with cracks on them . But he couldn't care less about all that .
His soul seemed to have penetrated into the dense wall of the furnace . It was compressed by the high temperature and pressure inside the furnace and mixed up with the metal materials .
The materials melded with each other and were rolled over and over, as if they were mud, by the immense pressure released by the hundreds of rune arrays inside the furnace after they were activated . The runes emitted brilliant mystic rays which pierced into the depths of the liquid metals and incurred inexplicable changes to their innermost structures . The core of the metal compounds gradually evolved and turned into new alloys!
The alloys as soft as a swamp were sent to the bottom of the furnace where the temperature was relatively low .
In this place, the shaping rune arrays would crush the alloys into the basic form of components through high pressure according to the patterns preset on the crystal processor .
This was just the beginning .
Later, they would have to experience dozens of procedures, including rapid freezing, quenching, high-pressure forging, rune arrays embedding, and so on . Some of the procedures would even have to be repeated several times before a functional magical equipment component was finally born .
For other people, the process might be tedious and boring .
But for Li Yao, such a job was like organizing a bunch of slovenly mobs and taming them with the harshest martial laws so that they could be trained into obedient and unstoppable soldiers who could crush everything in their way!
He liked it . Eventually, he completely dwelled in the world of refining .
As a young man from a remote town who had never been heard of before, he might not be enough to attract the sight of common audience, but many experts of the trade had noticed his oddness .
"Huh . This guy, Li Yao, his furnace seems different from others'; its efficiency is much higher!"
"Indeed . The temperature limit, pressure limit, and the switch from high temperature and low temperature of his furnace are all better than the performance of other people's furnaces!"
"The overall specifications of this particular furnace are at least 3% higher than other furnaces . What happened? Was the organizer too careless?"
"It has nothing to do with the organizer . The guy made some minor adjustments on his furnace at the beginning . Hurry up and replay the adjustments! Let's study them more carefully!"
Inside many spectators' rooms, the seniors and renowned refiners had all noticed Li Yao .
Many data analysts were quickly operating their light beams in order to scrutinize his actions .
As more and more details were presented, many of the experts were apparently interested in the contestant .
"Who is this Li Yao exactly? The style of his refining is somewhat old-fashioned, with a dash of heartlessness . It is not similar to any mainstream styles . "
"He is gambling!"
"Spending fifty-four minutes in adjusting his furnace could, of course, improve its performance, but the time left for the real refining work has been greatly diminished! The creation of many components will take two to three hours anyhow!"
"Producing three pieces of magical equipment in five hours . Does he really have enough time?"
One second passed after another .
After four hours, most of the refiners had finished the refining of the components and entered the last procedure .
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