Primordial Emperor

Even for Xing Yao, refining a Lapis Lazuli Stone takes a full two hours.

So, in reality, Xing Yao is also somewhat worried internally, unsure if Lin Chen can refine the Lapis Lazuli Stone.

And if Lin Chen fails to refine the Lapis Lazuli Stone later, he will step in to save Lin Chen's face, so Lin Chen won't have to kneel and apologize to Zhou Liang, just take him as a direct disciple instead.

"Good, very good. In that case, you can start refining the Lapis Lazuli Stone. I want to see how you do it."

After getting Xing Yao's assurance, Zhou Liang is extremely excited, now only hoping Lin Chen starts refining the Lapis Lazuli Stone quickly. Once he fails, he can join Xingyao Sect as a direct disciple with a promising future, and also expose Lin Chen's true face, making him lose all face and beg for mercy.

"Alright, I'm going to refine the Lapis Lazuli Stone now. How can I go with you hugging my leg like this?"

"Since this is your first offense, I won't hold it against you this time."

Lin Chen lowered his head and said to Wu Chong.

Wu Chong, this guy, actually hugged his leg begging for forgiveness.

"Thank you, senior, thank you, senior."

Wu Chong, being forgiven by Lin Chen, was overjoyed and quickly expressed his gratitude.

Then he looked at Xing Yao, without Xing Yao's forgiveness, he dared not stand up.

"Since Young Master Lin Chen has forgiven you, you may rise. Remember, if you dare to be disrespectful to Young Master Lin Chen again, you may leave the Refinement Hall."

Xing Yao looked at Wu Chong and spoke plainly.

"Disciple dares not anymore."

Wu Chong immediately got up from the ground, speaking with fear lingering in his heart.

Kidding, with this lesson, how could he dare to seek death by offending Lin Chen again. Knowing that his teacher respects Lin Chen so much, if he still dared to provoke Lin Chen, wouldn't it be asking for trouble.

After Wu Chong let go of Lin Chen's leg, Lin Chen immediately went to that pile of Lapis Lazuli Stone nearby, took a piece from the stone platform, held it in his hand, and then looked at Zhou Liang.

"Brother Zhou, you better watch carefully."

Lin Chen spoke casually, then a dark glow flickered in his hand, revealing the Blue Lotus Divine Flame summoned by Lin Chen, enveloping the Lapis Lazuli Stone.

After being strengthened by Lin Chen, the Blue Lotus Divine Flame has now reached the fourth-grade Divine Fire level.

With the appearance of the Blue Lotus Divine Flame, the temperature in the Artifact Refining Room suddenly increased sharply.

"What?!"

"This is... the Blue Lotus Divine Flame, and seeing the power of the flame, it's probably already at the fourth-grade Divine Fire level."

Zhou Liang looked at the dark flame in Lin Chen's hand and immediately shouted in shock.

All around, Zhang Yuan, Wu Chong, and Xing Yao were also deeply shocked.

"I didn't expect that Senior Lin Chen possesses a Divine Fire, and it's a fourth-grade Divine Fire. No wonder he took on the task of refining the Lapis Lazuli Stone, with the help of the Divine Fire, refining the Lapis Lazuli Stone is naturally much easier."

Wu Chong also exclaimed.

Xing Yao looked at the dark flame in Lin Chen's hand, his heart full of envy.

He dreams of refining a wisp of Divine Fire, but Divine Fire is rare and can only be encountered by chance. Even if you're lucky to come across one, you may not be able to refine it because even in its early stage, the Divine Fire's power is extremely terrifying.

In the Flame Valley where his master is in seclusion, there's a kind of Divine Fire, known as the Earth Splitting Divine Fire, but it's extremely overbearing, even his master wouldn't dare to refine it easily and can only have Spiritual Formation Master Wang Tong set up formations to control the Earth Spirit Fire.

At this moment, Zhou Liang couldn't help but clench his fists, knowing that he might lose this competition.

He had luckily acquired a Beast Flame, but it's only at the third-grade level.

With this trump card, he felt somewhat confident in taking on this task.

However, the flame Lin Chen possesses now is a Divine Fire, and it's a fourth-grade Divine Fire.

The power of Divine Fire far surpasses that of a Beast Flame by countless times, let alone it's a grade higher than his Beast Flame.

So Lin Chen's refining of the Lapis Lazuli Stone is most likely a certainty, bound to succeed.

But even so, Zhou Liang still held a sliver of hope, praying that Lin Chen wouldn't succeed...

The Blue Lotus Divine Flame blazed wildly in Lin Chen's hand, under the power of the Blue Lotus Divine Flame, the large Lapis Lazuli Stone in his hand quickly began to melt, continuously being purified by Lin Chen.

After the flame's burning and within the time it takes for one incense stick to burn, Lin Chen retracted the flame into his body, and the Lapis Lazuli Stone suspended in his hand had been refined to the size of a fist, shrinking to one-third of its original size.

"Senior Brother Zhou, does this level of refining count as a success in your opinion?"

Lin Chen looked at Zhou Liang, spoke casually, and then tossed the refined Lapis Lazuli Stone to Zhou Liang.

Zhou Liang caught the Lapis Lazuli Stone refined by Lin Chen, his brows furrowed, his expression extremely unsightly.

Judging from the refined Lapis Lazuli Stone in his hand, it is simply perfect, as there are no impurities within, considered one hundred percent pure.

Such a perfect refining, even if given more time, using the third-grade Beast Flame he obtained for refining, he still wouldn't be able to achieve it.

With his third-grade Beast Flame refining this Lapis Lazuli Stone, even given sufficient time, at most, he could only achieve about seventy percent purity.

"Why is Senior Brother Zhou standing there in a daze? I've already finished refining this Lapis Lazuli Stone."

"As long as Senior Brother Zhou can refine a Lapis Lazuli Stone with similar purity, I won't need you to kneel and apologize."

"If Senior Brother Zhou feels unable to match it, please kneel down!"

Lin Chen looked at Zhou Liang and shouted coldly.

This wasn't Lin Chen using his power to oppress others, but earlier this guy was scheming to take revenge on him and targeting him at every turn.

Lin Chen naturally needed to settle this account with him.

"Lin Chen, don't go too far."

Zhou Liang looked at Lin Chen, furious to the extreme.

For him to refine a Lapis Lazuli Stone with purity close to what Lin Chen refined is simply an unreasonable demand because it's something he absolutely cannot do.

"Heh, I'm the one who's going too far?"

"Brother Zhou, don't forget, the one who forced me into this bet earlier was you, Senior Brother Zhou."

"And in this bet, if you won, and I lost, do you think you'd let me off?"

"Spare me the nonsense, hurry up and kneel down, why? You want to back out?"

Lin Chen looked at Zhou Liang, speaking coldly.

If he could beat up Zhou Liang once, he could do it a second time.

If this guy truly is unwilling to honor his bet, Lin Chen doesn't mind helping him out.