From the Chaos Era to the present, craftsmen's techniques and ideas had kept pace with the times for all these years. Likewise, though, they had often accumulated a bit of dross.
Just as engineers liked to burn incense and offer pig heads in server rooms to pray for their servers' safety, all sorts of baseless mystical rituals had become popular among craftsmen as well. At the very least, they served as a vessel for good wishes.
Bathing and fasting were still fairly ordinary, and wearing red underwear to ward off evil and boost one's success rate had some basis to it... But if Ji Jue's case got out, it would probably add an epic new entry to the dross and astonishing wisdom of Embers.
After all, there really weren't many tough guys who used themselves to consecrate a new furnace the moment they got it!
Leaving aside the evil door methods of Fiendification Alchemy, the Ye Clan's inheritance did contain secret techniques and skills of swordsmiths sacrificing themselves to a furnace. But he was only stuck on Chun Jun's progress—Ji Jue didn't need to stew himself in an iron pot over it.
Unfortunately, he had no choice...
There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and Embers was no exception.
Every class he had skipped would eventually have to be made up.
Every shortcut taken by following an evil path would eventually lead to a long road ahead when one returned to the proper path.
The moment he discovered that his experience bar was stuck at ninety-nine percent of the fifth tier, he knew there was a problem...
It was the same issue as with Melting Furnace Blood—the Unextinguished Tinder had been completed too quickly!
From start to finish, all told, it had taken less than