183: Chapter 183 Green Snake's "Fair" Appraisal

The Green Snake's morals were functioning as usual.

As for integrity, throw that into the Demon Lord's sea of blood.

"I really was invited."

"I knew it. With my outstanding talent, how could I, the Green Snake, not be invited?"

Xu Qing felt incredibly smug.

Gold will shine wherever it goes.

Even if I missed the invitation letter, I can still radiate that clear and holy light as usual.

How noble I am.

The Green Snake's daily narcissism check-in was complete.

Now, it was time for business.

Without a doubt, Xu Qing's four Spiritual Artifacts successfully passed the first round of the Treasure Light Test.

The first round instantly eliminated more than half of the participating Spiritual Artifacts.

Moving into the second round, fewer than a thousand Spiritual Artifacts remained.

None of the top ten on the spirit artifact ranking list were among them.

One must know that the top ten on the spirit artifact ranking list were all legendary existences; they rarely appeared in the world, and their rankings did not change easily.

Unless a Spiritual Artifact received more than half the votes from the twenty appraisers.

Only then could it challenge the status of the top ten.

"The first round is over. Regrettably, the Spiritual Artifacts that did not meet the standard may leave."

"Fellow cultivators, please do not be discouraged. Artifact Refining is not achieved overnight. Please keep working hard."

"The second round, the competition of spiritual pressure, begins."

Referee waved his fly-whisk again.

Golden lines lit up on the clouds, constructing a Formation in an instant.

The Formation descended, enveloping all the Spiritual Artifacts.

The owners of the Spiritual Artifacts one after another formed hand seals to activate their artifacts and release spiritual pressure.

Seated high up, Xu Qing also formed seals to activate his four Spiritual Artifacts.

The pressure of nearly a thousand Spiritual Artifacts intertwined, growing stronger and stronger.

One should know that among these were eighty weapons from the previous spirit artifact ranking list.

As for why there were only eighty items on the spirit artifact ranking list besides the top ten.

It was because some Spiritual Artifacts had been lost or destroyed.

However, their strength rankings had yet to be surpassed.

Gradually, some Spiritual Artifacts began to buckle under the spiritual pressure.

Xu Qing's four Spiritual Artifacts, however, showed no change and remained very steady.

The first Spiritual Artifact let out a mournful cry and fell out of the Formation.

Its owner hurriedly stepped forward to catch it.

Fortunately, the spiritual pressure would not damage the Spiritual Artifact itself; it would only cause a loss of some Origin Qi.

Subsequently, as if triggering a chain reaction.

One by one, Spiritual Artifacts unable to withstand the spiritual pressure dropped out of the Formation.

"Hmm..."

Xu Qing noticed that the green tail white hair sword, which had been steady all along, trembled slightly.

As expected, is the green tail white hair sword the first to be unable to hold on?

The green tail white hair sword had accompanied Xu Qing for a long time; it was a work he refined in his early days.

Its materials were relatively ordinary, with nothing extraordinary about it other than being embedded with a white flood dragon scale.

After obtaining the heaven-accepting gourd later, it had been nurtured in the creation fluid and had even been re-refined with the black flood dragon horn.

"It would be best if it could break into the spirit artifact ranking list, even if it's only at the hundredth place, just to get that Solar Essence Fire refinement for free."

Xu Qing thought to himself.

Time continued to pass.

The spiritual pressure only stopped once more than half of the Spiritual Artifacts could no longer hold on.

At this point, only three hundred Spiritual Artifacts remained.

"The second round of spiritual pressure testing is over."

"Next, we enter the third round."

"Twenty Artifact Refining Grandmasters will serve as appraisers, conducting the scoring with impartiality, fairness, and transparency."

Xu Qing glanced around out of the corner of his eye.

Is there really no one here who has taken a bribe?

No way. Xu Qing didn't believe he was the only "unclean" snake.

No, no, no.

He, the Green Snake, was very clean.

Was it wrong to give himself a high score?

At least Xu Qing had a clear conscience because he truly believed it in his heart.

It was an ironclad fact that he found those Spiritual Artifacts of his useful.

In that case.

He was also conducting the appraisal with a fair heart.

"The first Spiritual Artifact."

"Snow Bone White Head Hammer."

"Refined using the skull of a white wolf with a thousand years of Dao Cultivation as the primary material."

The first Spiritual Artifact was passed among the twenty Artifact Refiners; they passed it around, whispering their evaluations to one another.

Then, they each gave a score.

Xu Qing stole a glance at the score given by the person to his left.

Seventy-four.

Then he looked at the score given by the person to his right.

Seventy-six.

Good heavens.

Xu Qing split the difference and gave it seventy-five points.

"Excluding the highest score of 82 and the lowest score of 68."

"The average score is seventy-four."

Referee shouted loudly.

"The next item, Dragon Tooth Blade."

"By..."

During the long scoring process, Xu Qing almost fell asleep.

In short, to prevent his own scoring from being unreasonable, he just copied the scores of the two people next to him, picking a number close to the middle.

Until.

"The Xiliang Sword, personally refined by the West River Maiden!"

"Next, we will proceed with the scoring."

Referee didn't say much more and directly announced Xu Qing's title.

Xu Qing was instantly no longer sleepy.

He glanced at the person on the left: ninety-one points; the person on the right: ninety-five points.

Good heavens.

What was the person on the left called?

Li Chao? Noted.

Xu Qing made a note in his little notebook.

Thanks to the vision boost from the tiancheng cloth, he could see his neighbors' scores clearly, while it also covered his eyes so others couldn't tell where he was looking.

"In that case."

Xu Qing picked up his pen.

He boldly wrote down 98 points.

"Excluding the highest score of 99 and the lowest score of 88."

"The average score is 92.43."

Xu Qing looked at the crowd.

Who? Who gave it an 88?

That's even more outrageous than that Li Chao next to me. Don't let me, the Green Snake, find out who it was.

Otherwise, I'll definitely have to let them experience what the wildness of nature feels like.

After that, it was another long scoring process.

Until it was the green tail white hair sword's turn.

Xu Qing gave it a high score, but it only averaged 87.24 points.

The green dragon ring, 91.41 points.

The heaven-accepting gourd, 98.32 points.

That's right, exactly 98.32 points.

It ranked first among all the Spiritual Artifacts this time, which meant it was eleventh on the spirit artifact ranking list.

Just below the ten legendary Spiritual Artifacts.

It might even be able to challenge the status of the top ten.

The temporary rankings for the spirit artifact ranking list were also out.

All four of Xu Qing's Spiritual Artifacts made the list.

Number eleven, the heaven-accepting gourd.

Number fifty-five, the Xiliang Sword.

Number fifty-eight, the green dragon ring.

Number one hundred, the green tail white hair sword.

All eyes were on him.

Everyone looked at Xu Qing with eyes full of admiration.

There were also greedy gazes.

But they were all hidden deep.

After all, Xu Qing's background was very powerful; no one dared to be presumptuous.

Next was the legendary fourth round.

That is, letting anyone who was dissatisfied come up and fight.

"amitabha. This temple's ancestral zen staff has dropped five places since last time; this poor monk cannot accept this."

"My Azure Dragon Staff is only ranked 99th? I don't accept this."

"My..."

Xu Qing inevitably received a challenge.

The challenger was the owner of the twelfth-ranked Spiritual Artifact, which was the original eleventh-ranked item.

It was a golden Dragon-headed Staff.

Named...

wisdom staff.

"My wisdom staff is definitely stronger than your gourd."

"You definitely can't compare to the wisdom staff!"

Xu Qing felt severely insulted.

If I had known, I would have given this thing a low score.

No, it's not like there isn't another chance.

He took out his little notebook and wrote it down.

Ten years later, at the next Hundred Treasures Court Assembly, give the wisdom staff a low score.

For a gentleman snake, ten years is not too long to wait for revenge.