Creating an artifact from scratch was undoubtedly an extremely money-burning endeavor.
Among the Fourth-Rank Artifact Forger inheritance Zhou Minghan had obtained were that artifact forger's collected experiences in creating original artifacts. That was also why he had advised Zhou Yang to try creating one himself.
According to the records in the artifact-forging inheritance, an Artifact Forger seeking to create an original artifact would do best to begin with common blade or sword artifacts. Such artifacts generally did not require too many materials, and their margin for error was far beyond that of small artifacts like flying needles and daggers.
Even so, the spirit stones that needed burning still had to be burned. Artifact Forgers of ordinary means truly could not afford this kind of money-burning game.
Zhou Yang only dared cultivate this way because his family had mines.
To create an original artifact, he directly withheld thirty percent of the output from the Crimson Flame Iron Ore Vein and Fine Iron Ore Vein to forge a high-grade First-Rank Artifact, the "Blazing Flames Sword."
With his current cultivation and Artifact Forging Art, forging a First-Rank Artifact took no more than half an hour at most, and his success rate was one hundred percent.
But that was when he was forging artifacts that already had artifact-forging diagrams. Creating an original artifact naturally could not be done that way.
Thus, he deliberately extended the time needed to forge one artifact to two hours. To raise the success rate, he even spared no expense in using Qianyang True Fire to temper impurities from the raw materials.
The Blazing Flames Sword he envisioned needed a "Blazing Flames" artifact restriction within it. This artifact restriction consisted of six rune nodes and twelve spirit patterns linking those rune nodes. These runes and spirit patterns had to be