After hearing about the dispute, Feng Jun found it both amusing and exasperating. What kind of ridiculous mess was this?
It did not actually take Liba Beach long to refine a set of Virtual Battle Artifacts.
Most of the components were outsourced, so that time could be ignored. The Guardians handled the core components, and as long as Feng Jun could supply enough Upper Spirit Stones, refining three to five pieces a day was child's play for them.
The only trouble was the centralized assembly and refinement. Before refining, Feng Jun had to perform Divination on the combination of components and make suitable adjustments—artifact refinement was not industrial production, after all.
Feng Jun had already demanded standardized procedures, but across the whole Heavenly Zither, there simply were no standards so stringent they could be called absurd. In fact, artifact refinement often involved customization and could never be entirely standardized.
Even the standard-issue weapons of the Seven Sects and Eighteen Paths were not absolutely identical. As long as a different artifact refiner made them, there would be slight differences. As for the reason... artifact refiners had their own views on refining. Was that explanation enough?
Even weapons refined by the same artifact refiner would not be exactly alike. As long as they looked roughly the same, that was enough.
Thus, Feng Jun's Divination-based fine-tuning was essential, and it took roughly three to five days.
The Mirror Spirit's final refinement took about a day and a half.
Of course, refining an artifact did not mean adding up all those periods of time. Once cyclical production was established, the step that occupied the most time would determine the artifact's production time.
In short, the time Feng Jun spent on Divination and fine-tuning was the time needed to refine one artifact.
Setting aside the