Lower Realm in Plainclothes

"Artifact refinement has hit a bottleneck."

Li Qing sat atop the tree, feeling quite at ease.

These days were actually pretty good.

Now, gazing at this vast Supreme Continent, he could not help feeling a surge of heroic spirit: This is my empire.

It sounded like it had come out of nowhere, but the sense of achievement was something he had never felt when he was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Because when he had been the mastermind, most things had simply followed their natural course. He had lounged behind the scenes and never bothered managing the era.

Only now did he feel the satisfaction of building and managing something.

"Stuck at a bottleneck. In the end, this god is still lacking some talent—geniuses of the artifact-refinement school."

Li Qing chuckled.

After bidding farewell to the angels in the trees, he descended to the mortal world alone.

Of course, he was not going to slack off. As the ruler of an era, he naturally had to recruit talent under his command.

This was now the era of magical artifacts. He needed to find an artifact-refinement genius of this kind and bring him into his service, so that he could develop cultivation methods for him and provide inspiration.

There had indeed been one such artifact-refinement genius before: Tang Xia.

Unfortunately, he had died of old age. Otherwise, if he had lived longer and been younger, then by the time this truly brilliant era of artifact refinement arrived, Li Qing might well have supported him again!

At that time, he would have become the universe's true Heaven's Mandate prodigy. Xu Li had opened up the era of divine abilities and Dao arts, while he could have opened up the era of magical artifacts and become its foremost figure. It would not have