At the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition's awards ceremony, Mu Xi stood below the stage waiting to go up and receive her prize, glaring angrily at Lan Kai beside her.
"Why didn't you enter the blacksmithing competition? You obviously entered both the individual and team events, and you've already become the continent-famous 'Light Energy User.' Don't tell me you skipped the blacksmithing competition just because you thought it was too troublesome!"
Mu Xi had once invited Lan Kai, her strongest junior fellow disciple, to enter the blacksmithing competition, only for him to refuse on the grounds that it would be troublesome.
Yet Lan Kai had immediately gone and pulled off something earth-shaking, showing the entire continent how to block lightning with his chest muscles and fire hand-crafted beams that blew apart the Six-in-One.
Afterward, Lan Kai had scored victories in both the individual and team events, claiming two championships with an unprecedented, utterly crushing momentum.
No matter how one looked at it, the seven-man team event and the individual event, both with far longer schedules, were much more demanding than the blacksmithing competition, where the champion could be decided in just two or three rounds.
Clearly, Mu Xi believed that Lan Kai's excuse back then had merely been him brushing her off. That was why she was especially annoyed now, to the point that she wanted to use her forging hammer to give his head a good whack.
"Isn't that still better than me pulling off a Spirit Refinement during the blacksmithing competition? You know my forging process is a little unusual. What if I dragged you, Tang Wulin, and all the other contestants down with me? Or made you all start charging toward higher levels of forging and be unable to stop, until your Soul Power was completely depleted? Wouldn't