Li Su drew a deep breath. This would be very difficult.
The main issue was the sheer number of restrictions, and the lack of time. The alchemy tournament only lasted a month or two in total, and nearly half of it had already passed. It had to be fast, good, and distinctly unique.
Even with the supreme attainments of the Numinous Treasure Scripture, artifact refinement was still a rather mystical art—but it was not the art of wishful thinking. It was not as though you could make whatever you wanted just by imagining it.
It had logical foundations. It was scientific.
The disciplines involved alone numbered in the dozens, including but not limited to materials science, energy studies, structural science, matter transformation, and so on, and so forth!
It could be said that even the simplest Foundation Establishment artifact had been forged through a thousand hammerings and ten thousand temperings. Only after countless predecessors had poured out their heart and blood had its principles finally been painstakingly summarized and organized. What went into it, what had to be sacrificed for it, could never be explained in just a few words. Bold hypotheses, cautious verification—failure was the norm, while success was merely an accident.
With a thought, Li Su connected to the Demon-Subduing Token and opened the Celestial Emperor Canon.
"Thunder as the primary attribute, suitable for those between Celestial Immortals and True Immortals. It doesn't have to be an offensive artifact; the key is that its effects must be astonishing."
The instant the thought fell, the Celestial Emperor Canon trembled. In less than a second, seven or eight artifacts with utterly different functions and effects appeared before his eyes.
Worthy indeed of the Celestial Emperor Canon. Divine abilities and Dao arts, arcane techniques and numerological arts, artifact refinement and pill