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"Pfft—"

Upon hearing that, Empress Feng sprayed out a mouthful of Immortal Brew.

"Have you gone mad?" she demanded sternly. "As your master, I have principles! How could I do something so damned?"

Chu Liang was startled at first, never expecting to hear the word "principles" from his master. Then he hurriedly said, "Master, I'm asking you to try refining this Tribulation-Crossing Divine Copper."

As he spoke, Xu Ziyang took a step back and presented the Tribulation-Crossing Divine Copper in the open space outside the door.

"Ah..." Empress Feng blinked and gave an awkward smile. "So you meant refining this Tribulation-Crossing Divine Copper. You should've said so earlier. I thought you meant refining this Tribulation-Crossing Divine Copper."

"Your disciple was too hasty," Chu Liang said with a smile.

Empress Feng stepped outside, struck a stance, and examined it for a while. Then she said in surprise, "This divine copper's spiritual radiance is perfectly complete. There isn't a single flaw to be found."

She was an expert at murder and arson, a founding ancestor of burning mountains and torching houses. The countless magical artifacts she had destroyed in her life were beyond reckoning. When it came to judging the quality of a material, even a master artificer might not understand it better than she did.

Naturally, she saw at a glance what was extraordinary about this Tribulation-Crossing Divine Copper.

Ordinary materials—whether gold, jade, copper, or anything else—had their own cracks and flaws. Those were the places through which spirituality entered and leaked away. Whenever artificers refined materials, they began from those flaws, probing their internal structure, melting and reshaping them, then engraving formation patterns upon them.

When Chu Liang had previously tempered it with Divine Dragon Fire, he had already discovered that the surface of this Tribulation-Crossing Divine Copper possessed flawless