Ahhh, I Don't Believe It

"No! I don't believe it!"

Hearing this, the bandit immediately exploded.

Mo Cuidao also exploded.

While the Compendium of Qi Refining Stage Artifact Forging Techniques wasn't a valuable item, there were two versions.

One version was included in the Heaven Defying Sect's cultivation manual pavilion, simplified for ease of learning and understanding, with no high barrier to entry.

The version Mo Cuidao gave to Ning Ri through the bandit puppet was his personal copy, intended for his closed-door disciple, containing more profound techniques.

Without Mo Cuidao's personal guidance, it would be extremely difficult to even comprehend this technique.

Ning Ri calmly returned the jade slip to the bandit and asked, "Why don't you believe it?"

The bandit immediately retorted angrily, "You say you've learned it just because you've read it? I've studied this thing for five years and haven't understood it. How can you claim to have learned it? This is extremely complex..."

Ning Ri remained silent. Suddenly, a surge of spiritual energy flowed from his hand, coiling around his fingertip. It danced like a sprite for a few moments before transforming into a string of incantations, then vanishing.

The bandit immediately fell silent...

Mo Cuidao also looked astonished.

The disciples on Kite Plaza couldn't quite understand and began whispering amongst themselves, "What's going on?"

However, the intelligent ones took one look at Mo Cuidao's expression and immediately understood...

Mo Cuidao never expected Ning Ri to learn so quickly...

This was impossible!

Even though the Compendium of Qi Refining Stage Artifact Forging Techniques was mostly theoretical knowledge with few practical incantations, it was still difficult to practice.

How could he have learned it so fast?

After a moment of stunned silence, he turned to Xun Zang and stammered, "You... you said he was trash?"

Before Xun Zang could speak, Zhou Hai corrected him, "That's wrong. I said he was a genius, a genius in techniques!"

As he spoke, Zhou Hai's lips curled slightly, a hint of pride on his face, as if Ning Ri's display wasn't his own, but Zhou Hai's.

But Zhou Hai's pride was understandable. While he called Ning Ri a genius, others hadn't openly questioned it, but they hadn't fully believed it either, as Ning Ri hadn't learned the Spirit Absorption Technique in front of them.

But now...

This display had awed all the elders.

It proved his words were not false.

After a period of stunned silence, Mo Cuidao's expression remained grim, but a flicker of excitement surged within him...

Ning Ri continued, "Alright, since I've learned it, you have to produce another cultivation technique."

The bandit stared at Ning Ri. Just like before, he gritted his teeth, took out another jade slip, and handed it to Ning Ri, saying, "This is an extremely difficult fire-controlling incantation called the Blazing Heaven Chapter. This jade slip has absolutely never circulated on the market. I don't believe you've learned it."

"After reading this jade slip, you must let me go!"

Ning Ri ignored him, took the jade slip, and scanned it rapidly. After finishing, he tossed it back to the bandit and said calmly, "Get another one."

"I've learned it."

The bandit immediately roared, "Impossible!!!"

Before his words had even finished.

The anger on the bandit's face suddenly froze. A fiery light flickered in his eyes, reflecting his silence.

The fiery light in his eyes came from a wisp of cyan-blue flame dancing on Ning Ri's fingertip.

The cyan-blue flame gradually expanded, and five similar flames appeared around it, rotating ceaselessly. These five flames carried the power of the five elements.

This made the cyan-blue flame not only intensely hot but also imbued with a corrosive, erosive quality deep within its core. This was a spirit fire incantation that allowed artifact refiners, even with only Qi Refining cultivation, to smelt higher-level Foundation Establishment ores.

This was also the most difficult spirit fire incantation in the Blazing Heaven Chapter.

The moment this flame appeared, Kite Plaza fell into silence.

Everyone had heard of Mo Cuidao's techniques.

Anyone with a basic understanding of artifact refining knew how profound this path was.

This Ning Ri was too monstrous!

The elders in the elder's seats understood even more deeply.

Mo Cuidao wasn't someone who worked in isolation; he had discussed his fire-controlling incantation with many elders.

He claimed to have compiled the most comprehensive and top-tier fire-controlling method, a fire that could defy the heavens, capable of refining the Heavenly Dao into a magical artifact.

He intended to leave the Blazing Heaven Chapter for his closed-door disciple, ensuring his disciple would have a perfect foundation from the Qi Refining stage.

If he himself couldn't defy the heavens, then his closed-door disciple would.

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And the elders all felt that Mo Cuidao's brain might have been filled with molten iron.

For the powerful elders, the Qi Refining stage fire-controlling techniques in the Blazing Heaven Chapter were not difficult.

Because they could use their cultivation to adapt to those techniques.

But for Qi Refining cultivators—

These techniques are too difficult.

The elders believed that one had to be one of the best artifact forging geniuses in the cultivation world, a once-in-a-millennium talent, and possess exceptional aptitude to be able to adapt to Mo Cuidao's fire control techniques during the Qi Refining stage.

But such people usually wouldn't come to the Heaven Defying Sect.

Although Mo Cuidao verbally denied everything the elders said, especially denying that his brain had been flooded with molten iron, he inwardly admitted this point—

This method is indeed very difficult.

If it weren't for this, Mo Cuidao wouldn't have handed it over to Ning Ri through the bandits at this time...

But he didn't know what kind of young man Ning Ri was.

At this very moment.

On the elder's bench, the elders were silent.

Zhou Hai, who had been smug just moments ago, now wore a bizarre expression.

He muttered to himself—

Damn it.

This kid, he took half an hour to learn the Spirit Absorption Technique last time. I feel like he was faking it...

Then, one elder after another looked at Mo Cuidao, curious about his expression at the moment.

This was the second time he had been publicly humiliated.

Mo Cuidao's expression grew even uglier, tinged with anger...

Meanwhile.

The bandit in the water screen, after a moment of silence, suddenly gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "You've even learned the Blazing Heaven Chapter?"

"Then I don't believe you've learned the array carving method: the Subtle Art."

Ning Ri took it, then threw it back, "Choose another one. I've learned it."

"...Ahhhhh, I don't believe you've learned the furnace nurturing method: the Dao Nourishment Art."

"Choose another one. I've learned it."

"Ahhhhh, I don't believe you've learned the material melting method: Red Furnace Melting Snow."

"Choose another one. I've learned it."

"Ahhhhh, I don't believe..."

"Mo Cuidao, stop not believing and wait for me!"

In Kite Plaza, Zhou Hai saw that the situation was unfavorable and called out to stop Mo Cuidao.

At this moment, the elders' gazes towards Mo Cuidao had become extremely strange.

All eyes were on Mo Cuidao's face, their expressions extremely displeased.

Mo Cuidao glared at them angrily, "What are you doing?! What do you want?! Why won't you let me continue? Do you want to see me make a fool of myself in front of so many disciples?"

"He first slandered my reputation, saying I had a connection with him, and then repeatedly learned my techniques on the spot. If this gets out, what will others think of me?"

"They'll think Ning Ri is my connection, that I'm using favoritism!"

"I will never allow such a thing to happen."

"I must find a technique he cannot learn to prove my innocence."

As he spoke, the bandit in the water screen continued to yell, "I don't believe you can do the shaping method: Supernatural Craftsmanship..."

Seeing this, Zhou Hai laughed in anger, "Heh, make a fool of yourself? Don't think we don't know what you're doing!"

"From the basic knowledge of artifact forging, to the furnace nurturing, ignition, material melting, array carving, and shaping required in the actual forging process..."

"Are you retaliating against him?"

"You are clearly accepting him as a disciple in public!"

"This is a disciple trial right now!"