All this time, he seemed to have underestimated the power of magical treasures, assuming they were no match for high-grade talismans in sharpness.
But after witnessing the power of several magical treasures in battle, his long-held understanding had been completely overturned.
Xu Yi began frequenting all kinds of lecture gatherings. In the end, he settled on five that covered the Way of Artifact Refining. After listening for a while, he set his sights on a lecturer called Chen Daozi.
Chen Daozi was middle-aged and at the Corpse Slaying Realm, though he had yet to become a corpse. His lectures were held in a mountain valley, and each time only a dozen or so people came to listen.
Having attended many lectures, Xu Yi knew this was because artifact refining was not a prominent field of study, so its audiences could never be as large as those for the study of mathematics. In truth, mathematics was not a prominent field either; lectures on the Dan Book and Talisman Art drew even bigger crowds.
Although Chen Daozi's lectures were somewhat deserted, their scholarly atmosphere was the best of all the venues Xu Yi had visited.
That was because Chen Daozi had the strongest air of a scholar among the lecturers. He did not care much about merit points, and whenever someone asked a question, he would do his best to explain. He had, by and large, lived up to the principle of knowing what he knew and admitting what he did not.
That was the fundamental reason Xu Yi had chosen him.
After one lecture ended and the students had dispersed, Xu Yi stayed behind.
Chen Daozi put away the crystal screen and asked Xu Yi if he needed anything else.
Xu Yi said, "To be frank, Mr. Chen, I've been to