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Ye Chen naturally recognized the golden-robed youth at first glance. If not for the Xiao Feng risking their lives to kill each other, he would have died a long time ago!

"Luo Yunxiao!" Ye Luo raised an eyebrow and shouted in anger. If it wasn't for Ye Chen giving him a look that said "stop", he might have already charged over.

Luo Yunxiao came closer and lightly swept his eyes across Ye Chen and Ye Luo, and said: "I let the two of you escape last time, but I didn't expect you two to enter the third round of the Refining Competition. It's quite interesting."

Just interesting? Ye Chen sneered in his heart, then looked towards his side, only to realize that Chu Yuan was coldly staring at him, as if he was being surrounded.

The third round's Refining Competition had a total of twenty people divided into two rows. At this moment, Ye Chen was coincidentally surrounded by Luo Yun and Chu Yuan, and right in front of him, was the woman called Nie Feng.

On the other side, on Ye Luo's right was Su Qing Yue, on his left was Lin Chuan, all of their strengths were not to be underestimated. Ye Chen looked at them and took a deep breath, obviously he was also prepared to fight them.

"Silence!" Suddenly, a voice reverberated through the air like a thunderclap. Everyone came back to their senses and saw a Gray-robed Elder standing on a large pillar in the middle of the two rows of refining platforms. It was obvious that he was the host of this competition.

"The rules of the third round of the competition, excluding the results of the first two rounds, will be decided by the eight judges after a time limit of six hours …" The Gray-robed Elder shouted loudly, announcing the rules of this year's Refining Competition.

The competition rules were very simple, every person's refining platform had the same materials, it was simply refining a treasure within the specified amount of time. The higher the level of the treasure refined, the shorter the time, the more points they would gain, in addition, refining a defensive type treasure was a level harder than refining an offensive treasure, and their points would also be higher.

Although the rules were like this, many people knew that in the entire Tianlan Prefecture, Chu Xuan was the only one who could refine fusion Profound Artifact. From this, one could see the difficulty of refining fusion Profound Artifact, let alone refining a set of Profound Artifact.

As for treasures, no one had managed to refine a single Tianlan Prefecture up till now. Even in the other eight residences, a single treasure was extremely valuable.

"Now, let me announce the official start of the competition." Following the old man's soft shout, beams of fire shot up into the sky. Smoke rained down from the sky. The originally quiet refining field immediately began to boil.

Many people were roaring with all they had. It was as if they were not spectators, but artificers standing in front of a refining platform. It was as if magical equipment were being born in their hands.

The artifact forging competition was held once every ten years, which was considered to be an extremely important competition in terms of Tianlan Prefecture. Although it was unable to determine the status of the eight great clans, it was still a test for them and other forces.

Who wouldn't want their family to become stronger? Who didn't want to win a place in the Refining Competition that would bring glory to the family? The most important thing was that the Refining Tournament's rewards were very generous. This time, the first prize was also a low-grade treasure, which made many people scramble for it. Unfortunately, out of the thousands of refiners present, only the top three would receive a reward.

As soon as the old man finished speaking, without even thinking, Ye Chen directly took all eighteen types of refining materials from the refining platform and put them into the Spatial Ring. However, no one could clearly see this action of his, so they thought he had directly thrown all the refining materials into the furnace.

"Humph!" Seeing Ye Chen's actions, Chu Yuan snorted, and released a bit of his soul power, shooting towards Ye Chen. Soul power attacks, were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he was already in front of Ye Chen.

Chu Yuan's mouth formed a strange arc, he seemed to have witnessed the scene of Ye Chen suddenly vomiting blood and dying, but what surprised him was that Ye Chen stood his ground unmoving, and instead looked at him with a gaze of pity.

"This is bad!" In the judging area, Chu Xuan frowned, his expression was ugly, obviously he sensed that something was amiss. Suddenly, Chu Xuan shouted loudly and suddenly stood up.

"Kid, die." On the Refining Platform, a flash of killing intent flashed across Chu Yuan's eyes as a thread of soul power rushed towards Ye Chen's mind.

The corner of Ye Chen's mouth curled. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time, did he really think that he could be easily bullied just because he was at the middle stage of the Profound Spirit Stage? Just then, a golden light shot out from Ye Chen's hair, the sharp cold light pierced through Chu Yuan's soul power.

A miserable cry was heard as Chu Yuan spat out several mouthfuls of blood. His face became extremely pale and his body swayed and he almost fell to the ground.

Luo Yunxiao who was just about to make a move, retracted his soul power and looked at Chu Yuan with an inquiring look. Chu Yuan's face was extremely pale, like a deflated ball without any strength.

Ye Chen provocatively looked at Luo Yun, and then smiled at Chu Yuan, who grimaced in pain and looked at Ye Chen, wishing that he could kill Ye Chen straight away. His soul was extremely weak to begin with, and after being pierced by the gold wind lightning needle, he had almost lost half his life, thus he hated Ye Chen to the bones.

"Despicable!" Luo Yunxiao's face was filled with killing intent.

"When the word 'despicable' came out of your mouth, Second Young Master Luo, why did it feel like it was the greatest compliment to me?" Ye Chen laughed, you said that I'm despicable, you guys want to sneak in a attack on me, isn't that just being despicable?

"I hope you can still be so arrogant after a while. Not killing you last time was my biggest mistake." He never thought that an ant like Ye Chen would be able to fight with him in such a short period of time.

"I've always been this arrogant. The last time you failed to kill me, from now on, you will not be able to kill me. Oh right, I forgot to tell you, your disappointing little brother Luo Yunfei was killed by me." The smile on Ye Chen's face slowly disappeared, and became gloomy, mixed with a few evil smiles.

Luo Yunxiao trembled and the veins on his face bulged. However, just as he took a step forward, Chu Yuan called out to him, "Brother Luo, you can't. Leaving the Refining Stage is equivalent to giving up the match!"

"We don't even need to leave the refining platform to kill him!" With a sinister expression on his face, Luo Yunxiao extended his hand and a fire dragon appeared out of nowhere. The fire dragon roared at the sky and quickly shot towards Ye Chen.

This scene instantly attracted the attention of all the spectators. Everyone had long been looking forward to the fight between Luo Yun and Ye Chen, since they did not see the fight between Ye Chen and Tian Lan Tea Group. It wasn't too late for the fight between the two of them, and it was allowed within the refining competition.

"If you don't believe me, you're not going to die!"

Luo Yunxiao revealed his killing intent. He was extremely confident, and when he controlled the fire dragon to attack Ye Chen's artifact forging platform, he seemed to have witnessed the entire artifact forging platform explode under Ye Chen's feet, as well as the scene of Ye Chen bleeding profusely.

However, what made him disappointed was that when the fire dragon was ten meters away from Ye Chen, a huge blue lotus appeared out of thin air. With a boom, the blue lotus exploded without any warning, and flames engulfed the entire sky.