Chapter 46: Seven Seconds to Become a Talent

Meng Zhang, who was refining pills nearby, couldn’t stand it anymore and interrupted, “Little Junior Sister, stop it. Li Yang isn’t that kind of person.”

Her eyes were wet, her face full of anxiety and incomprehension, “We’ve only known each other for a few days, why are you all speaking up for her?”

“Yeah, running away alone isn’t enough, she even took Lou Qi with her.”

It was a male sword cultivator from the Yin Shen Sect, his face grim, looking like he wanted to scold someone, “You guys are just fools for believing her.”

The Yin Shen Sect wasn’t weak, but they were always overshadowed in the grand competition, struggling for thousands of years to break into the top five sects.

After each grand competition, the top five sects would receive generous rewards, while the Yin Shen Sect, the perennial sixth place, would get nothing and would also have to spend a lot of spirit stones to register. Over time, most of the sect’s disciples dreamed of joining the top five.

This year, the Yufeng Sect, with the fewest members, became their target.

Another person said, “Lou Qi, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, kept making excuses about maintaining the defensive formation and not going out to fight. I think he, like Li Yang, is a blood clan lackey, putting on a show for us here.”

Fang Yizhou frowned, his eyes fixed on Feng Yao, “You think so too?”

The girl in pink clothes pursed her lips and nodded, “She is…”

“She isn’t.” Ning Shiyan, who had been silent, spoke up.

The obedient boy’s image was easy to overlook. He was also very socially anxious, quietly squatting in a small corner.

Only then did he stand up, his face slightly flushed, “Little Junior Sister isn’t a traitor. She must have her reasons for doing this.”

Everyone noticed him then.

“Another one from the Yufeng Sect?”

“Heh, it’s Ning Shiyan, the useless one, abandoned by his companions, huh!”

“Except for him, the Yufeng Sect has exactly five people left, enough for teleportation.”

“At this time, you still believe her? Your little Junior Sister ran away with your Senior Brother. They don’t want you anymore.”

Ning Shiyan’s fingers moved, quickly taking out several materials from his pouch, skillfully kneading them together, and throwing them over.

Everyone saw a flash of light.

When the light dissipated, the most talkative person had a small round ball stuffed in his mouth, flying out dramatically to the rear.

When his feet left the ground, the ball in his mouth exploded.

It wasn’t fatal, but all his teeth were gone.

A Golden Core stage sword cultivator, all his teeth were knocked out.

Everyone’s discussion stopped abruptly, and everyone looked at Ning Shiyan.

His face flushed red, his eyes also red, he clenched his small fists, looking extremely fierce, “None of you are allowed to slander my little Junior Sister.”

Luo Qingyang’s hand trembled, he spoke to himself incredulously, “Seven seconds… a device…”

For a long time, artifact refiners were considered the most useless profession. Their combat power was low, and the materials needed to refine spirit artifacts were expensive and rare, and the refining time was long.

Dan cultivators could refine pills on the battlefield under protection, but few artifact refiners could do so. They would spend several days refining one spirit artifact. By the time the artifact was ready, the battle would have long ended.

But every profession has its purpose.  Artifact refiners were once the most glorious on the continent. The swords of sword cultivators, the alchemy furnaces of Dan cultivators, the brushes and talisman paper of talisman cultivators, the musical instruments of music cultivators, the soul bells of ghost cultivators… every one of these treasures was once crafted by artifact refiners.

In order to make some artifact refiners useful on the battlefield, a powerful cultivator once developed a high-speed artifact refining technique, freely and unconditionally available to all artifact refiners.

But after thousands of years, the number of people who could master this technique could be counted on one hand.

Luo Qingyang swallowed, their sect had an artifact refiner elder who had been refining for so many years, and he hadn’t said he could refine a spirit artifact in seven seconds.

This somewhat bristly obedient boy in front of him might not be ordinary.

The atmosphere was silent for a few seconds.

The man spat out the spirit artifact from his mouth, along with his teeth, and angrily pointed at Ning Shiyan while his speech was slurred, “See? He tried to attack me, he must have been hit by my words.”

Ning Shiyan clenched his fists, hiding his fatigue.

The prerequisite for creating an artifact in three seconds was speed and sufficient spiritual energy. This technique was extremely draining on spiritual energy. He hadn’t mastered it yet, and could only use it once.

Just as he was thinking of a solution, Meng Zhang extinguished the fire in the alchemy furnace.

The little black fat man was full of confidence, “What’s all the fuss? If you keep arguing, I won’t refine pills. Anyway, I haven’t been infected with the blood蛊. Let’s see who dies faster.”

They could bully Ning Shiyan, but at this critical moment, no one dared to bully Meng Zhang.

The young man pulled Ning Shiyan behind him, “Just wait here. If anyone dares to come over, I’ll burn them with alchemy fire.”

After threatening the outsiders, he added softly, “Don’t be afraid. Once Li Yang comes back, the truth will be revealed.”

Ning Shiyan’s pupils froze for a moment, looking dazed, then he returned to his harmless, obedient self.

“Meng Shixiong, why are you protecting him?” Feng Yao still didn’t understand.

Just as she was about to say something else, Fang Yizhou scolded in a low voice, “Enough.”

His eyes held a hint of disappointment when he looked at Feng Yao.

“The first lesson for the disciples of the top five sects is that during a joint defense against external enemies, there should be absolutely no internal strife. Did you eat the books you studied?”

The girl finally stopped speaking, standing there helplessly, tears continuously falling.

Fang Yizhou glanced at Ning Shiyan, “Sorry.”

After saying these two words, he went to Luo Qingyang’s side and once again used the Rebirth Technique.

Only then did everyone realize that Luo Qingyang was injured. His flesh was torn open, and the blood flowing down formed a small puddle on the ground.

The man smiled at Fang Yizhou with a hint of gratitude, then looked at everyone expressionlessly.

“My skills are not up to par,” he frankly stated the facts, “Just supporting the defensive formation for a short while has already resulted in this. Do you remember how long Lou Qi held on?”

The question made everyone lower their heads.

Lou Qi hadn’t avoided fighting, but he had been holding up the defensive formation, held back by them.

At that time, the man officially joined the battlefield.

The first time he was dragged through the air by his Junior Sister, he was completely dumbfounded.

Lou Qi waved his hand, knocking down a crow, and said somewhat helplessly, “What do you want me to do?”

Li Yang approached the battlefield while observing her surroundings, “Later, can you set up an isolation array? I’ll find a way to gather the four blood clan members together, and then you block them, don’t let them escape.”

He hesitated for a moment.

Then he replied, “I can, three seconds.”

The formation could only last for three seconds.

“Enough,” Li Yang put Lou Qi down in front of the battlefield and whispered, “The teleportation talisman only takes two seconds to activate.”

He suddenly understood, staring strangely at Li Yang, “You want to…”

A flock of crows flew towards them.

Li Yang made a silencing gesture, “Don’t let them overhear.”

Those crows were fed with the flesh and blood of the blood clan members, coming from the blood clan young master. What they heard, the young master could hear.

A beam of fire directly split open from the front, repelling the crows, leaving a clean path.

Zhuang Churan arrived shortly after.

The moment she saw Li Yang appear on the battlefield, she had a premonition and softly asked, “Do you need help?”