"Not a Top Grade Magic Treasure?" Even Lei Dong, usually so composed, felt his spirits soar. "Could it be you're planning to refine..."
"Exactly. Innate materials are best suited for refining an Innate Spiritual Treasure." Wang Lei looked as though it were only natural. His expression made it seem he wasn't planning to refine an Innate Spiritual Treasure at all, but merely forge an ordinary farming hoe.
So it really was true. Lei Dong felt a little dazed. Over the past few years, he had learned a bit about artifact refining. Though he was only at a beginner's level, he still knew how difficult it was to forge an Innate Spiritual Treasure. For the vast majority of Artifact Refining Grandmasters, forget forging an Innate Spiritual Treasure—even the success rate for a Top Grade Magic Treasure was frighteningly low.
One had to understand that forging an Innate Spiritual Treasure wasn't as simple as having innate materials. The artifact refiner's skills had to reach a virtually miraculous level for success to even be possible. In ancient times, for example, innate materials had been plentiful, yet how many Innate Spiritual Treasures had actually been forged?
As far as Lei Dong knew, after the ancient catastrophe, the Cultivation World had fallen into decline. Tens of thousands of years had passed since then, but the number of successfully forged Innate Spiritual Treasures people had heard of was minuscule—not even twenty. Innate materials were certainly rare and scarce, but the greater cause was the loss of artifact-refining techniques and the lack of experience among Artifact Refining Grandmasters.
In ancient times, there had been countless innate materials for Artifact Refining Grandmasters to practice with. Even if they ruined some, it wouldn't matter much. If they succeeded once in ten tries, they could be called master artisans. But