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While waiting for Xin Shinian to arrive, I went to the artifact-forging room. Han Shanshan had already begun leading the original skilled workers in forging Dao Artifacts, and there were quite a few finished products. I inspected them. Given Han Shanshan's current Dao Body and the limited numbers, these Dao Artifacts naturally were not very powerful, mostly around the seventh or eighth grade. But judging by the pace, this batch would soon be spread far and wide, enough to stir up a wave in the Divine Court.
I brought Han Shanshan along as we took a brief look at the alchemy room. Everything there was ready; we were only waiting for Zhu Daoyun to arrive. But after what had happened before, would she still help us make pills? I had serious doubts.
Besides, her mother, Chu Yan, would probably keep a tight watch on her. After considering it for a long while, I decided to keep the alchemy room and planned to recruit two or three more people after Han Shanshan entered the Office of Artifact Administration. After all, as long as the pay was high, there was no need to worry about not finding people willing to refine pills capable of raising a ninth-grade Dao Body to the eighth grade.
After bringing Han Shanshan back to the Daoist temple, I used the Qi Disk that Zhu Junyu had taken out earlier to help Han Shanshan remove the restrictions on her Dao Body and restore her true immortal qi.
Unlocking it still posed no great difficulty. However, after Han Shanshan reached the fourth grade, advancing to the third grade became extremely difficult. After all, she had not received much funding. But a fourth-grade Dao Body could do far too much for her now, making artifact forging twice as effective