A Thousand Days Later

Chen Yuan's next plan was simple. Aside from arranging for his Mind Clone to cultivate steadily, he had another task: to master artifact refining and alchemy, raising them to the Middle God Emperor Realm and God Emperor Late Stage.

For him now, these tasks were not difficult.

Not to mention his foundation in artifact refining, even if Chen Yuan started from scratch, he was confident he could master it in a short time.

After all, these techniques did not place high demands on the Great Dao. Even Half-Hunyuan creations could actually be refined by someone in the Middle God Emperor Realm.

With Chen Yuan's computational ability surpassing that of a World-Level Hunyuan, coupled with the trillionfold Time Acceleration of the Yuan Chu World, the time he needed to learn these techniques would be astonishingly short.

And that was indeed the case.

In merely ten epochs, Chen Yuan had mastered artifact refining and alchemy techniques at the God Emperor Late Stage.

Although he could have continued cultivating until he reached the Half-Hunyuan level, he stopped there. Techniques at this level were sufficient for the time being.

"It's time to start making money." Chen Yuan let out a soft breath.

As for exactly what items he should refine to make money, he had long since made his plans.

"Naturally, only items that are both rare and in high demand can make big money."

Chen Yuan thought, "For cultivators in the various Sacred Worlds, ordinary treasures are no longer difficult to obtain. No matter how difficult something is to refine, it ultimately depends on manpower. Given enough time, the prices of such items will naturally be driven down.

"Only one category of items has maintained a consistently high price: items with an extremely cumbersome refining process."

It was like certain Mechanical Path creations,