Merlin the Artifact Refiner

"Lin, someone has their eye on you."

Doumu Yuanjun, who had been pretending not to exist, interjected.

"Who?" Li Lin replied inwardly while cracking jokes to make the others laugh.

"An Original's disciple. An Artifact Refiner," Doumu Yuanjun said.

"An Artifact Refiner?" Li Lin was surprised.

He knew that the Artifact Refiner Doumu Yuanjun referred to was a cultivator who treated artifacts as pills, used artifacts to carry the Dao, and refined qi through artifacts. The Way of the Sword Immortal was actually a variation of the Artifact Refiner path.

They were usually known for combat power that surpassed their realm.

This was only because the Tribulation Crossing Stage was difficult to attain, while Tribulation Crossing Stage Magic Artifacts were easy to forge.

Even though, to avoid Dao contamination and prevent the artifact wielder's Dao from being restricted, the artifacts they created were all Artifact Embryos—blank sheets requiring the Artifact Refiner to write their own Dao upon them—

A blank sheet could also be immortal paper. If an Artifact Refiner's talent was sufficient, there was nothing impossible about using an Immortal Artifact Embryo as a foundation and inscribing their own Dao upon it.

If Artifact Refiners did not also have the weakness of Artifact Master Dao Assistant, of easily undergoing artifact transformation at the Tribulation Crossing Stage and cultivating themselves into sentient artifacts, this path would certainly occupy the mainstream today.

After all, one could attain immortality at the Golden Core Realm, while the combat power brought by artifact transformation could also be achieved through external objects. Seeking immortality by becoming a magic artifact was truly unwise.

Even the most advanced Humanoid Puppets made of Flesh Artifacts were inferior to the Heavenly Dao Body formed after crossing tribulation.

Of course, as an Artifact Immortal's disciple, he had surely cultivated with