Today's first update: Chapter 1971! 1/3!
Jixia Academy had its own standards for judging the rankings of any given path.
Though Xu Kun joked that his forging ability ranked only twentieth, he fully acknowledged that ranking.
It was like determining victory and defeat at the Myriad Races Forging Assembly.
The higher the grade of an item, the greater the difficulty of forging it.
For example, without factoring in their types, a Supreme Divine Artifact-grade peak Emperor Artifact definitely could not stand alongside a Demi-Supreme Divine Artifact-grade peak Saint Artifact.
Being able to forge a Supreme Divine Artifact-grade peak Emperor Artifact did not necessarily mean one could forge a Demi-Supreme-grade peak Saint Artifact!
Especially at this Myriad Races Forging Assembly, even the Huaxia Dragon Cauldron—a fortune divine artifact hailed as Blue Star's finest, painstakingly forged by Ou Yezi—had failed to take first place!
It was only when the Sword of the Seventh Realm of National Fortune, Wait, was born that it overpowered all rivals!
That said, a mere Second Realm Supreme Divine Artifact, compared to a Saint Artifact, was worth at most an ordinary Divine Artifact-grade Saint Artifact!
But calculating it that way was rather unreasonable.
After all, forging a Second Realm Supreme Divine Artifact while still in the Second Realm—and doing so without blueprints—could the nineteen people ranked above Xu Kun accomplish that?
No!
At the very least, Ou Yezi, ranked seventh, could not!
The premise was that the person forging that sword was only in the Second Realm!
In terms of difficulty, it was even harder than forging a Seventh Realm Supreme Divine Artifact while at the Sixth Realm Peak!
In terms of potential alone, the current Xu Kun could challenge the greatest forgers in humanity's history. But the rankings were comprehensive, so for now, Xu Kun could