"This..."
"Oh no..."
Also witnessing how Xuan Hao slowly explained the mistakes that had been made during the forging process of the dagger, the few who had harbored hope for him to not be skilled when it came to blacksmithing, all simultaneously shared a look of despair. Understanding that there was no chance of them progressing to the next stage of the competition.
"What is this? Did you just randomly toss in a few spiritual herbs into water and turn it into a soup of some sort? Look, there are even unrefined chunks of spiritual herbs floating around inside of it… Disqualified!"
"A transcendent grade spiritual metal grinded and used as coloring for an artifact of this quality? Disqualified… And pray you don't run into any of the other blacksmiths again after leaving the city…"
"This pill… Shouldn't this be a healing pill? But… As a poisonous pill, it gets 37 points."