At dawn, the rising sun poked its head over the mountaintop. Golden sunlight pierced the morning mist and spilled across the mountains and plains.
At that moment, Su Fan sat cross-legged beside the pond near the Thatched Cottage, holding a Jade Slip against his forehead.
A pile of Jade Slips lay before him, heaped up in disarray. They contained various artifact-refining inheritances and classics he had collected over the years.
After a while, Su Fan lowered the Jade Slip, then closed his eyes and began to ponder.
Because there was not much Ten Thousand Year Dragon Transformation Wood, he had only refined two dragon scales and one piece of Dragon Skin.
Dragon scales were extremely difficult to refine, so he had chosen two scales over a meter in diameter. The Dragon Skin was quite large, measuring roughly twenty feet across.
With only these materials at hand, Su Fan had spent the past two days mulling over what kind of magic artifact to refine.
Among the techniques in the Fish Leap Dragon Transformation Dao Ruins Treasure Scroll, there were not many magic artifacts he could currently refine.
Thus, Su Fan had been agonizing over it these past few days and still had not made up his mind.
After repeatedly weighing his options, he finally decided to refine three magic artifacts.
The first would be a dragon-scale shield called the Nine Dragon Savage Shield. It would be refined by layering several ninth-tier ancient savage Demon Cores with the two dragon scales.
According to the general outline of the artifact-refining section in the Fish Leap Dragon Transformation Dao Ruins Treasure Scroll, once refined, it could easily withstand the full-force strike of a late-Integration Stage powerhouse.
At least, it sounded damn impressive. Whether it was all just bragging was another matter.
If it truly