One hundred thousand low-grade, ten thousand mid-grade, and one thousand high-grade!
Qin Shaofeng found the three stages of the Artifact Refining competition easy.
After learning a little about the Mad Martial Battle Armor, Qin Shaofeng could already tell that it was very easy to forge.
The low-grade Mad Martial Battle Armor could increase its wearer's strength tenfold. That might not seem like much, but its defensive power was actually comparable to some one-star Sovereign Artifacts.
More importantly, forging low-grade Mad Martial Battle Armor was far easier than forging a one-star Sovereign Artifact.
Artifact Refiners and alchemists both had ten ranks, but there was one difference: an Artifact Refiner's field was somewhat more complicated than an alchemist's.
When refining pills, one could only incorporate divine patterns. Array patterns and the like simply would not work.
That was because divine patterns represented the power of the Great Dao Law. Once incorporated into a pill, they could bring about a qualitative change, significantly enhancing its effects.
Array patterns, however, had no such obvious effect and were even difficult to incorporate into pills.
Artifact Refining was different. Whether divine patterns or array patterns were carved onto a weapon, either could give it a considerable boost in power.
The stronger the array patterns, the more powerful the weapon.
If divine patterns were carved directly onto it, the weapon would essentially possess the power of those divine patterns.
Thus, in the Ancient Saint Domain, Artifact Refiners ranked one to three generally could not directly carve divine patterns onto the equipment they forged.
At most, they could carve array patterns. Only a few three-star Artifact Refiners with a relatively high mastery of divine patterns could carve two or three divine patterns onto a weapon or suit of armor.
Even a one-star Sovereign Artifact required a hundred divine