The Artifact Race numbered only a pitiful few hundred thousand. Before races that numbered in the hundreds of billions or trillions, the Artifact Sovereign could not even be considered a true race.
Moreover, the strongest among the Artifact Race possessed only Spirit Transformation cultivation. It was simply absurd.
Yet the reason this race, with such weak auras, had not been wiped out was because the Artifact Race possessed an innate divine ability: Heaven-Bestowed Divine Patterns.
The Artifact Race stood at the absolute pinnacle when it came to forging weapons. In this world, if they claimed second place in weapon forging, no one would dare claim first—not even the Human Race's ninth-grade artifact refiners could compare.
After forging a weapon, the Artifact Race would use their Heaven-Bestowed divine ability to inscribe divine patterns upon it. Divine patterns came in countless varieties, and every one of them possessed miraculous abilities.
For instance, once a lightning divine pattern was inscribed into a weapon, a lightning cultivator wielding it could amplify the attacks they unleashed by fivefold, tenfold, or even twentyfold. It all depended on the grade of the divine pattern.
The effects of divine patterns were beyond the reach of any formation.
The Human Race's methods of forging weapons all involved adding various formations into the weapon. The better the weapon's material, the stronger the formations that could be added.
But weapons forged by the Human Race were not worth mentioning before those forged by the Artifact Race.
Back then, a race had wanted to subdue the entire Artifact Race and have them forge weapons exclusively for their own race.
The moment that proposal was raised, it drew a crusade from the myriad races. They had all purchased weapons from the Artifact Race and naturally knew how formidable they were. Once the Artifact