The Art of Artifact Refinement

"Since that's the case, we can stay and finish the artifact-refining competition before heading back together," Xie Bao Shan said with a hearty laugh. Wang Da Fu naturally nodded in agreement without objection.

The two immediately agreed that on the second day after the artifact-refining competition concluded, Xie Bao Shan would come to the outer disciples' quarters to find him, and they would then set off together for Flying Sword City.

After seeing Xie Bao Shan off, Wang Da Fu gazed through the window at the rolling artifact-refining peaks of the Hundred Refinements Sect, his thoughts churning.

Ever since he had entered the gates of the Hundred Refinements Sect, famed for its artifact-refining arts, half a year ago, his progress in cultivation had been exceedingly difficult and negligible. It was as though an invisible barrier had shrouded his dantian and sea of qi; the spiritual energy of heaven and earth he absorbed always fell just short of the final step, unable to gather into a breakthrough.

Whenever he examined his stagnant cultivation, Wang Da Fu could only shake his head with a bitter smile.

Although Wang Da Fu had made no progress in cultivation over the past half year since entering the Hundred Refinements Sect, he had been extremely diligent in reading the miscellaneous books in the Scripture Depository and studying artifact refinement.

After half a year of effort, if nothing else, he had basically read through every miscellaneous book in the Scripture Depository that he was permitted to access. As for artifact refinement, while he still could not forge graded magical artifacts, he was capable of forging simple artifact blanks.

The path of artifact refinement was broad and profound, and its foundation lay in the forging of artifact blanks.

A fine piece of spiritual material had to undergo countless