Four hours!
This time, Ye Zhen spent a full four hours refining the Black Silkworm Silk Armor!
Yet throughout those four hours, every high-ranking member of the Sun Moon Divine Cult, including Cult Master Jian Qianxiong, stared fixedly at Ye Zhen's every artifact-refining movement—even the slightest fluctuation of his divine sense!
Everyone seemed to be witnessing a divine miracle. They even unconsciously held their breath, switching to internal breathing sustained by spiritual power, afraid that a single careless sound might disturb Ye Zhen's refining.
Jin Mu, though still kneeling there, frequently grew incomparably excited along with Ye Zhen's artifact-refining movements.
Even an ordinary technique or hand seal displayed by Ye Zhen during the refining process was enough to send Jin Mu into a frenzy of excitement.
By now, merely from what he had discovered while watching Ye Zhen refine artifacts, Jin Mu had already resolved thirteen difficult problems he had previously encountered in artifact refining!
Yet over the past ten years, Jin Mu had not solved more than ten similar problems through his own research!
In other words, simply watching Ye Zhen refine an artifact once was worth ten years of Jin Mu fumbling through artifact refinement on his own!
This further proved the value of the artifact-refining notes Earth Core Fire Marshal had left behind in the Profound Heaven Artifact Refining Art.
Thus, when another brand-new Black Silkworm Silk Armor emerged from Ye Zhen's hands, Jin Mu rose to his feet with an agitated expression.
This movement startled Jian Qianxiong and the others, who thought Jin Mu was about to pull some new trick!
Who would have thought that Jin Mu would instead bow solemnly toward Ye Zhen!
And it was an exceedingly formal ceremony of three kneelings and nine kowtows!
He said, "Master above, please accept this bow