"A Weapon for Overcoming the Strong with the Weak, a killing weapon for challenging those above your level—simply marvelous beyond words!"
It was precisely Earth Core Fire Marshal's words that made Ye Zhen resolve to comprehend the Profound Heaven Artifact Refining Art and embark upon the path of artifact refining.
Moreover, according to Earth Core Fire Marshal, this minute control did not merely affect spiritual energy and flames—it also affected the soul!
Only with such exceedingly fine control could one cultivate certain extraordinarily tricky and vicious methods and Secret Arts!
Of course, in a martial artist's battles, there were only victory and defeat, life and death; there was no such thing as tricky or vicious.
Beyond these two points, artifact refining offered many other benefits.
Once one achieved something on the path of artifact refining, one's status among martial artists would become exceptional. Some things that had once been impossible could then be accomplished with but a word.
Moreover, one could use it to obtain vast amounts of exceedingly precious cultivation resources!
The higher one's cultivation, the more resources one consumed. No matter how many cultivation resources one possessed, there would come a day when they ran dry. Yet abilities such as artifact refining or pill refinement could allow one to continually acquire an immense supply of cultivation resources.
Whenever Earth Core Fire Marshal refined an artifact, he could obtain nearly thirty years' worth of cultivation resources.
Later on, Earth Core Fire Marshal declared that he would refine artifacts once every ten years, and handed the opportunity to do so over to auction houses for auction. Every time, it fetched an astronomical price!
Setting aside the output of his territory, artifact refining alone was sufficient to provide all the resources he needed for cultivation!
Furthermore, many of the treasures he