In the God Realm, a Revered Artificer Refinement Master could only be considered a child among blacksmiths. Above a Revered Artificer Refinement Master were a Grandmaster Refiner, a King Refiner, and a Weapon God. Becoming a Weapon God was definitely the highest achievement for a blacksmith. Currently, there were only two people in the God Realm who were Weapon Gods.

There was definitely a huge threshold from a Revered Artificer Refinement Master. If he could praise it, his future would definitely be limitless. Otherwise, he would probably only be a Revered Master Weapon Refinement Master for the rest of his life.

The most important condition for becoming a Weapon Refinement Sacred Master was that one could refine divine artifacts. Even if the divine artifact one refined was only an elementary divine artifact, one could still receive the courtesy of any faction. This was also the dream of most blacksmiths. As for the Weapon God, blacksmiths could only look up to him.

Hearing President Lu’s reprimand, the man tactfully shut up, but his gaze was still fixed on the disheveled old man.

At this moment, Old Man Zao in the arena had already poured out all the materials in one of his rings. When the judges and audience saw Old Man Zao’s actions, their jaws dropped. However, what surprised them even more was the materials that the Old Man Zao had placed on the ground. Each of those materials was enough to make any artificer go crazy.

Because it was a competition between artifact masters, 80% of the audience were artifact masters. When they saw the materials that the disheveled old man had, their eyes lit up. They wished they could take those precious materials for themselves. However, they could only think about it. They did not have the guts to really snatch the materials from Old Man Zao.

A considerable number of artificers who were refining weapons became jealous of the disheveled old man after seeing his actions and the materials on the ground. Which big family did this old man come from? How could he have so many supreme-grade materials? It was really infuriating to compare!

Some of the artificers’ mental endurance was too poor. When they saw the precious materials that Old Man Zao casually threw on the ground, their minds were unstable and they almost damaged the equipment that they were refining.

When Old Man Zao saw this, he even reminded them with a smile, “Focus! Don’t be affected by anything. Otherwise, your equipment will be useless.”

After saying that, he angrily fiddled with the materials in front of them. Then, he sorted the materials into categories and finally kept them in his ring.

As for the materials that the disheveled old man was preparing to refine defensive equipment, he had taken them out from another storage ring. Naturally, the quality was not as good as the ones he had revealed earlier.

Then, Old Man Zao slowly refined the equipment…

Leng Ruoxue, who was also sitting in the audience, was really angry and amused when she saw Old Man Zao’s actions. Old Man Zao was clearly doing it on purpose. However, wasn’t he afraid of attracting the covetous eyes of others? She couldn’t help but be a little speechless. Alas! Now, the blacksmiths on the field probably weren’t thinking about refining weapons.

As time passed, Old Man Zao’s on the field completed their refinement one after another. However, the disheveled old man was still adding materials to the furnace. His actions made many people’s foreheads drip with cold sweat.

What did this mean? There was no need to use so many materials to refine a defensive equipment!

After observing for a while, they saw that the disheveled old man had placed at least dozens of materials in the furnace. In addition to what the disheveled old man had placed in the furnace previously, there were probably at least a hundred kinds of materials, right? Therefore, for a moment, no one could figure out what this disheveled old man was trying to do!

Actually, Old Man Zao had done this to confuse them. Therefore, he had placed a pile of materials that were basically useless and would not affect the quality of the equipment. The result of this was that everyone was confused by him. However, this was what he wanted. Hehe! He had secretly learned his refinement technique from the girl. How could he let others learn it!

The materials that Old Man Zao threw into the furnace this time were abnormally stubborn and wouldn’t melt easily. Therefore, the wait was long and anxious. However, the ones who felt this way were others. Old Man Zao himself didn’t feel that way.

Instead, he closed his eyes and dozed off.

“Miss, Old Man Zao is playing tricks again,” Cui Zhu said helplessly to Leng Ruoxue in the audience.

“Haha! This is called a tactic. It’s used to confuse the opponent.” Leng Ruoxue chuckled.

“Oh!” Cui Zhu nodded. She couldn’t help but think to herself. The people around the young lady were all cunning. It was really too easy to plot against others.

Just as Leng Ruoxue said, Old Man Zao opened his eyes at the right time. At the same time, the materials in the furnace happened to melt. Immediately after, he began to purify, shape, and temper. The entire set of movements was as smooth as flowing water, causing everyone’s eyes to be dazzled.

When there was still a minute before the entire competition, Old Man Zao finally completed the refinement of his equipment. When the judges saw this, even though they were furious, they all heaved a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it was completed again without any danger! However, if Old Man Zao was like this every time, they would not be able to stand it.

When Old Man Zao walked to the judges’ table and handed his equipment to President Lu, President Lu grabbed him.

“I say… Old Man Zao! Can you refine the equipment earlier next time? Look, the others have completed it…” President Lu said with a smile. However, he only said half of the sentence. Alas! He couldn’t say that this old man gave them a lot of pressure! If this old man knew that they were on tenterhooks because of him, he would definitely say, “You asked for it!”

“Why? I completed it in the prescribed time. It’s not like I exceeded the time limit. Besides, the materials I used are not easy to refine. There’s no way to complete it in advance!” Old Man Zao said with a troubled expression.

“Uh!” President Lu was depressed. He thought to himself, “If you didn’t know how to do this and that previously, would time be so tight?”

“What I mean is that you can refine it when the competition begins!” President Lu said very implicitly, implying that he should not mess with anything else.

“I am!” Old Man Zao pretended to be stupid and said, “President Lu, take your time to rate. I’m leaving!”