Artifact Forgers at Thunder Elephant True Monarch's level were rare not only in the Borderlands, but even across the entire Human Cultivation World.
Unfortunately, Nascent Soul True Lords in the Borderlands were few in number. Aside from the needs of the palace, his superb Artifact Forging Technique had almost nowhere to display its prowess.
The Tianshan Mountain Range was a tangible barrier, one that could be crossed through countless means. Yet the prejudice in people's hearts was an invisible barrier that was far harder to surmount.
The Cultivators beyond the mountains held a fixed impression of the Borderlands: impoverished, desolate, backward, dangerous—somewhere they feared to avoid too slowly.
Few knew that there was actually an artifact-forging grandmaster here, only one step away from Fifth-Tier Ultimate Grade.
Thunder Elephant True Monarch naturally disdained to publicize such things. Thus, he had not personally forged Magic Artifacts for a long time. He had taken the initiative to speak this time only because he had seen two rare materials.
Ordinarily, at his level, he would never forge an imitation Magic Artifact that lowered his own standing. Yet these two fragments had broken his long-held principles.
He did not know what material this Magic Artifact was made from, much less where it had come from or what its history was. But he knew that it had been extremely powerful in its prime. Even with only two fragments, he could clearly sense the traces and patterns left within by the great Dao of heaven and earth.
Traces of the great Dao could be encountered but never sought.
Perhaps this was the crucial moment for him to advance further!
Song Changsheng could not see any traces of the great Dao, but he knew these two fragments were extraordinary. That was why he had deliberately kept them hidden