Today's first update: Chapter 1542! 1/3!
From F-tier to SSS-tier, there were more than 3.3 million types of metal in total!
What kind of concept was that?
It meant that after all those metals had been forged and piled together, they would still stand tall enough that one had to crane their neck to look up at them!
Forging so many varieties and such enormous quantities of metal into a single whole, in the proper order and with varying degrees of force—even Xu Kun's mind stalled for a moment at the thought!
It was simply a vast undertaking beyond human capability!
There were so many procedures, and not the slightest mistake could be made along the way. The tiniest error would result in total failure!
More than three million kinds of metal! Even counting the same kind over and over would make one dizzy.
Not to mention that some were rare metals whose information could not be found even through a search on the Myriad Races Forum. Most people knew nothing at all about their properties or where they should be used!
Simply recognizing them all was difficult enough, let alone using them for forging—and forging Supreme Divine Artifacts at that...
It was unimaginable. This alone left 99.99999% of smiths utterly in the dust!
And only after one had thoroughly mastered the characteristics of all three million-plus metals would they have met the most basic requirements!
Xu Kun could be considered knowledgeable, right?
During his sixty years of study at Qufu Academy, he had encountered no shortage of rare metals from various races in his forging studies. Yet even he had never seen nearly ten thousand of the more than three million metals before him!
All he could say was that the road of forging was long!
It required