Hearing this, Wu Tao came to understand. Like many of the rogue cultivator artifact refiners, he had been stunned senseless by this great fortune and had failed to consider this point.
"Master sees things more clearly."
"Master, among us rogue cultivator artifact refiners, is there truly no one who can learn those Two First-Rank Level 9 Magic Tool Manuals from Five Spring Mountain?"
Wu Tao asked.
Chen Shan shook his head.
"Wu Tao, the more I have dealt with artifact refiners from orthodox backgrounds and Ten Thousand Year Inheritances like Five Spring Mountain these past days, the more I have realized just how vast the chasm between us is—like an impassable heavenly barrier..."
"Think about it. They have accumulated knowledge over ten thousand years. We rogue cultivator artifact refiners, even if we live out our lives, have at most a single person's hundred years of accumulation. Can we possibly compare?"
"If their ten-thousand-year accumulation could be surpassed by your hundred years of accumulation, they might as well smash their heads into a wall and die."
"Moreover, all the artifact refinement knowledge of us rogue cultivator artifact refiners comes from rogue paths, pieced together from scraps. Five Spring Mountain's artifact refinement knowledge, however, has already formed a complete system. They know how to advance quickly..."
"Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for this batch of rogue cultivator artifact refiners to learn those Two First-Rank Level 9 Magic Tool Manuals."
"Unless..."
In the end, Chen Shan still left him in suspense. He looked at Wu Tao expectantly, signaling for him to guess what else would make it possible.
"Unless..." Wu Tao's thoughts turned. A flash of inspiration sparked in his sea of consciousness, and he blurted out, "Unless the rogue cultivator artifact refiner possesses an Artifact Refinement Technique."
"Correct!" Chen Shan nodded in