[At present, you did not yet possess the ability to refine Immortal Artifacts.]
[You were a Heaven Grade Artifact Refiner and could refine Heaven Grade Spiritual Artifacts.]
[You first had to advance your Artifact Refining Technique to the Immortal Grade Artifact Refiner level.]
[Fortunately, you had the support of your traits. The future looked promising.]
[Year Twenty-Two, age forty-one.]
[You temporarily set aside your studies in other fields and focused entirely on the path of artifact refining.]
[You crossed out a large portion of the resource list Old Shen had given you, exchanging it for specialized ten-against-one instruction from the Star Domain's ten greatest Artifact Refiners.]
[With your current attainments, this kind of instruction was more like a seminar.]
[Through discussion, frequent hands-on practice, and directly acquiring others' experience, you were certainly progressing much faster than you would have by shutting yourself away to muddle through research.]
[Meanwhile, the Shen Family had begun contacting the Five Domains, overseas regions, and other places where Human Race Martial Artists were relatively weak. They began discussing strategies for jointly resisting the enemy, comprehensively strengthening the Martial Artists of every faction, and cultivating more Martial Artists.]
[This would not be easy to carry out.]
[How to convince everyone to believe it was a massive undertaking in itself.]
[Fortunately, this time, the Shen Family was the side making concessions.]
[As long as the ground-level factions were willing to follow the Shen Family and take part in building the Human World's defenses,]
[they could receive better Spiritual Artifacts, more pills, more powerful formations, broader knowledge of various paths, and superior Martial Dao Masters.]
[The Shen Family's Cultivation Method Masters could even improve the cultivation methods of various factions.]
[Thus, even if they did not believe it, seeing the Shen Family genuinely spending money and effort, the