Miserable Failure

The head of the Cao family, Cao Hong, was furious and agreed to Ye Fan's conditions for learning weapon refining skills. If he wins, Ye Fan apologizes in public. If he loses, let Mark go see Mr. Cao.

Yan Shien couldn't help but feel ecstatic.

No matter who wins or loses, he is optimistic about the outcome.

All the weapon refiners in the Cao Mansion were watching, and they couldn't help but feel sad. The head of the Cao family was actually provoked by Master Yan, and he was full of hostility towards Ye Fan. They couldn't help but feel angry at Master Yan, a villain, and they cursed endlessly.

But it was no longer helpful at this time, and a competition between Cao Family Master and Ye Fan in the art of weapon refining was inevitable.

"Senior Brother Tang, who do you think is stronger and who is weaker, Senior Brother Cao or Brother Ye?"

Xing Chou was worried and was not optimistic about Ye Fan.

"Brother Ye's weapon refining skills are very novel, and he has a broad vision in the concept of weapon refining. But... Senior Brother Cao is the top weapon refining king in the imperial city, and he has a deep connection!"

Tang Dapeng sighed.

"Yes, the master of the family is the leading weapon refiner in the imperial city. He has been under the influence of the old man for hundreds of years and has long received the true inheritance of the old man. Although the master of the family is usually inconspicuous, his background is behind him. Anyone in the imperial city dares to compete with him. The King of Artifact Refining will never have more than five fingers. Almost all those who have challenged Cao Family Master have been defeated, and no one can take advantage?"

"Brother Ye is a little younger after all, and his reputation is far less than that of the family leader. He is probably slightly inferior to the family leader."

Everyone shook their heads and sighed.

In the hearts of everyone in the Cao Mansion, Cao Hong, the head of the Cao family, has stronger prestige and strength in weapon refining after all. In their eyes, Ye Fan is just a new weapon-refining king.

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In the courtyard of the refining workshop, all the refining masters and apprentices stopped what they were doing and hurriedly gathered around to watch the battle.

The battle between the head of the Cao family and the weapon refining king Ye Fan is definitely a peak showdown between the weapon refining kings. If they missed this peak-level competition, they would regret it for the rest of their lives. Even if you get scolded afterwards, you won't hesitate.

The other weapon refining kings were all focused on the matter, and did not care about the low-level weapon refining masters and apprentices, just letting them watch.

This is a real competition of weapon refining skills, full of the smell of gunpowder!

It wasn't just that the three weapon refiner kings, including Xing Chou, Tang Dapeng, and Xiang Yuanjiu, asked Ye Fan about their mysterious weapons. It was more about people asking for advice and Ye Fan's advice, not talking about competition, and no fireworks at all.

Soon hundreds of people surrounded Cao Mansion, all watching the battle with bated breath.

"Master Cao, I wonder how we can learn how to refine weapons?"

Ye Fan said.

"Since it is a competition, of course it must be fair, lest others say that I bully the small! It is too time-consuming to compete directly with weapon refiners, so let's compete with theory. You and I take turns to ask five questions each. The one who answers the questions successfully will win the game. The person who answers the question loses. If the answer cannot be found, the person who answers the question loses, and the person who asks the question wins. Each question is limited to one stick of incense time. In the end, the one with the most wins is the winner."

Cao Hong did not intend to take advantage of Ye Fan in terms of the rules of the competition.

He simply didn't believe that Mark could surpass him in weapon refining skills.

"Okay! Please ask the head of the Cao family to come up with the question first!"

Ye Fan smiled.

The head of the Cao family pondered for a while, then immediately asked a question about high-level weapon refining skills, and said coldly: "I plan to temper a fourth-level purple haze cold frost sword, and I need to use some fourth-level fine charcoal as the burning fuel. But There are hundreds of kinds of fourth-level fine charcoal, which kind of fine charcoal is most suitable for tempering the Zixia Cold Frost Sword?"

When the weapon refiners heard this, they were all stunned.

"All fourth-level refined charcoal can be used to temper the fourth-level mysterious sword! Why do you have to deliberately select the type of refined charcoal?"

"Could it be that the type of refined charcoal is related to the ore used for refining the weapon? But there are hundreds of kinds of fourth-level refined charcoal, who knows which one is the most suitable!"

"This question is too biased~! The test is about the most biased weapon refining and burning materials. Although it barely touches the weapon refining technique, weapon refiners will hardly pay attention to this."

Many weapon refiners were very puzzled by this question and whispered in earnest.

When they refine weapons, they almost never deliberately select the type of refined charcoal.

As long as the refined charcoal is of sufficient grade, it can be used to refine weapons.

Even the kings of weapon refiners are no exception when tempering, so naturally they are not too particular about the fine charcoal.

Moreover, the types of refined charcoal are not just what they want.

The supply of refined charcoal in the imperial city is made by charcoal workshops that cut high-grade wood from distant mountains. Whatever refined charcoal the refined charcoal workshop supplies, their refiners usually use whatever refined charcoal they have, regardless of the price, regardless of the type.

The head of the Cao family snorted softly, put his hands behind his hands and ignored everyone, only staring at Ye Fan coldly and arrogantly.

This question of his was not so much a test of the weapon refining skills as it was a test of the mastery of the weapon refining materials.

This was a weapon refining test question that Mr. Cao gave him in order to quell his arrogance when he was proudly showing off to everyone after he was promoted to the King of Weapon Refining.

This question stunned him with a stick in the head. Only then did he realize that the weapon refining system was as profound as the sea, and there was profound knowledge everywhere. He didn't dare to be self-righteous anymore.

Now, he uses this sap to beat Ye Fan to let Ye Fan know how high the mountain is.

Cao Hong wanted to see how Ye Fan could solve this tricky practical problem that Mr. Cao gave him back then.

Ye Fan pondered for a moment, then smiled, and said slowly: "The Zixia Cold Frost Sword is made of Zixia Gold Mine and Frost Mine. This sword can also be tempered with ordinary refined charcoal, but because When the fine charcoal is burned violently, a small amount of dust will enter the Xuanjian, which will affect the quality of the Xuanjian to some extent.

Therefore, if you want to pursue the ultimate quality, you must also consider refined carbon.

To temper the Zixia Cold Frost Sword, the most suitable thing to use is fourth-level top-quality golden bamboo charcoal, or ice fir charcoal. Because the dust after burning Jinguang Bamboo Charcoal is the same material as Zixia Gold Mine. The dust after burning ice cedar charcoal is the same as that of cold frost ore. Using these two types of fine charcoal will not affect the quality of the Zixia Cold Frost Sword.

However, these two kinds of fine charcoal are extremely expensive and rare. Ordinary weapon refiners rarely go out to find these two kinds of fine charcoal to refine weapons. This kind of specialized fine charcoal can only improve the quality of Xuanbing by about one to two percent. In most cases, just use ordinary high-grade refined charcoal. "

The more Cao Hong listened, the more shocked he became. Finally, he almost opened his mouth and fell into silence. Ye Fan actually answered the test questions assigned to him by Mr. Cao back then, which was beyond his expectation. Ye Fan's skills are deeper than he imagined.

The weapon refiners couldn't help but be shocked.

The refined charcoal varieties can actually be matched with the black ore varieties!

This is too difficult.

How many refiners will specifically study the similarities and differences between fine carbon dust and black ore?

You must know that there are thousands or hundreds of types of huge mineral materials and huge charcoal materials. This is not something you can just name one or two and match them one by one.

Ye Fan actually answered the question, which is incredible.

Ye Fan is not only proficient in the art of refining weapons, he is also proficient in mineral materials and refined carbon materials.

You know, the head of the Cao family just randomly found a kind of mysterious soldier to torture. If Ye Fan didn't know the properties of most black mineral varieties and the properties of refined charcoal varieties, there would be no way to answer this question.

"Brother Ye actually has such a profound grasp of the types and functions of refined charcoal! This profound knowledge is unparalleled in the world of weapon refining!"

Tang Dapeng, Xing Chou, Xiang Yuanjiu and others all gasped in shock.

But soon their eyes lit up, this was a very good way to improve the quality of Xuan Weapon.

Although a 1% improvement is small, for the weapon refining kings like them, whose weapon refining level has almost stagnated, even a small improvement is nothing.

Ye Fan quickly said: "Now I will ask the question, please answer the question of the Cao family. It is the same question you just asked. I plan to use the two refined charcoal materials, golden bamboo charcoal and fir charcoal, to refine a mysterious weapon together. .Excuse me, what kind of mysterious weapon is best for me to refine?"

The head of the Cao family was stunned when he heard this.

This, isn't this the reverse of his question?

Ye Fan's question was too simple.

"This is not simple. The golden bamboo charcoal and fir charcoal are the most suitable for tempering the mysterious weapon. Naturally, it is the Zixia Cold Frost Sword!"

"yes!"

"Isn't this equivalent to giving the head of the family a question for free!"

All the weapon refiners murmured in low voices.

The head of the Cao family thought for a moment and was about to answer when suddenly his body went cold and he almost broke into a night sweat.

wrong!

This is a trap!

He asked before, what kind of fine charcoal is best for tempering the Zixia Cold Frost Sword? Ye Fan's answer was, fourth-level top-quality golden bamboo charcoal or ice fir charcoal, whichever one will do.

But what Ye Fan is asking now is, using golden light bamboo charcoal and fir charcoal to temper the mysterious weapon at the same time, which kind of mysterious weapon is the best to temper? !

These two questions seem to be opposite, but there is a huge difference.

The effect of burning two types of high-grade fine charcoal together to quench a mysterious weapon is definitely different from burning and quenching a mysterious weapon with a single type of fine charcoal.

Ye Fan dug a trap here, waiting for him to fall into it.

"Master Cao, what's your answer?"

Ye Fan looked at the Cao family leader with a smile.

"this..."

The head of the Cao family thought for a long time, but was speechless and couldn't say anything. He was so choked that he couldn't breathe out.

He has never tried using these two types of high-grade fine charcoal together to temper the mysterious weapons, what would be the effect.

It is already very difficult to master the effectiveness of one kind of refined charcoal alone. Who would be so bored as to exclusively burn these two types of charcoal together for an experiment? !

Even Mr. Cao wouldn't be so boring.

However, he could not accuse Ye Fan of being too tricky in setting the questions. Because this question is a complete inversion of the question he asked just now.

Time flies by in a blink of an eye.

The head of the Cao family still hasn't come up with the answer.

When the time is up, automatically admit defeat.

"This question is too difficult!"

"I thought just now that the question asked by the head of the family was very perverted. Now I know that the question asked by King Ye Lianqi is a hundred times more perverted."

"I'm afraid even King Ye Refining himself doesn't know the answer!"

Tang Dapeng and several other weapon refiner kings and hundreds of weapon refiners who were watching the battle were thinking hard but could not come up with an answer.

Yan Shien was stunned. He couldn't even get close to the two of them in the exchange of ideas between Ye Fan and the Cao family. This difficult weapon refining test is enough to make a weapon refining king like him collapse after listening to it.

There was a sadness and deep despair in his heart.

After all, he has been refining weapons for hundreds of years, and he was once a senior weapon refining king.

However, after seeing the confrontation between the Cao family leader and Ye Fan today, I realized that he didn't even get involved. Just the problems between the two of them filled him with fear. Not to mention, try to answer it.

"Ye Fan, if you ask such a question about weapon refining, you must be able to answer it yourself. Otherwise, even if you ask the question randomly, it won't count."

Master Yan shouted loudly.

Ye Fan glanced at him as if he were a fool and ignored him.

"Brother Ye, I wonder what is the secret of tempering the mysterious weapons with golden light bamboo charcoal and fir charcoal?"

Tang Dapeng humbly asked for advice.

Ye Fan said lightly: "When golden bamboo charcoal and fir charcoal are tempered together, there will naturally be a special reaction. When the fine dust produced is mixed together, it has the same effect as ice gold ore. Therefore, if the two types of charcoal are used together, it can Mysterious weapons mainly used to temper ice gold ore."