Those who excelled at a craft must have been devoted to it!
Put simply, anyone who reached the point of founding a school in a craft must have loved it from the heart.
Even if they had first learned it merely to make a living, or for some other reason, growing skill would kindle a genuine fondness for their craft.
That was true of Luo Chen, Min Longyu, and Hu Yanzhuo alike.
It was even truer of Tianyezi, who had enjoyed the treatment accorded to a Nascent Soul cultivator for centuries.
However wretched his circumstances had been, however great the gulf between expectation and reality, his whole bearing changed when he truly began refining the treasure.
Solemn and dignified!
It was as though he were performing something sacred to him.
Luo Chen had watched Duan Feng refine treasures before. Duan Feng used a bewildering variety of methods and complicated tools, bringing every secret technique and rare preparation to bear.
At first glance, Tianyezi's refining seemed utterly unremarkable.
He began with the lowest-grade Mystic Iron, Ink Lead, and Copper Essence, then moved on to Tier 2 Quicksand Refined Gold and Mystic Luo Gold...
From low to high, he proceeded methodically, one step at a time.
His methods seemed ordinary enough. He merely used his Natal True Fire to heat the materials slowly, purge their impurities, and bring them to the proper state for later use.
Yet it was precisely in those seemingly ordinary actions that his extraordinary refining skill became apparent!
That Soft Thunder Sand is a Tier 3 ore. Despite the word "soft" in its name, it's incredibly hard and normally takes the urine of a special spirit beast to process. Yet Tianyezi handled it so quickly!
Luo Chen had heard Duan Feng and Gongsun Gan of Hundred Refinements Mountain