Huo Lian did not return to rendezvous with his master, instead going to Xu Bo's lodging.
A year ago, in order to further refine his craft and seek inspiration for improving sacrificial artifact-forging techniques, Xu Bo had graduated from the Hundred Refinements Gate and traveled the world. He currently joined a merchant caravan heading south, and relying on his increasingly exquisite artifact-forging techniques, he had become one of the people with the highest status in the caravan.
When the caravan arrived at Donghua Mountain and joined the temporary marketplace, he naturally came to possess a temporary workshop. On ordinary days, he would craft some Dharma artifacts at the request of the caravan's guests, and in his spare time, he would search for unique Dharma artifacts on the market to broaden his horizons.
Now encountering Huo Lian, the two of them truly felt like they met too late.
Especially since Huo Lian's newly sprouted ideas on artifact forging happened to somewhat coincide with the problems Xu Bo had studied for half a lifetime.
As a youth, many of Huo Lian's trains of thought were immature, certainly no match for Xu Bo, who had immersed himself in and studied this path for over a hundred years.
On the other hand, regarding the refinement and completeness of knowledge structure, Xu Bo, who had only "supplemented his studies" at Xu Yang's place for a few years, was certainly far less solid than Huo Lian over there. Yet the unconstrained, wild-as-a-flying-horse inspirations of the youth also gave him immense enlightenment.
Speaking up to that point, Xu Bo even took out that minor-sect Dharma artifact whose prototype was the "Soul-Shaking Gourd". Over a decade had passed, and it had now been forged by Xu Bo to the seventh heavenly layer. While it could not be said