Grand Thousand Wine Is Ready

The black-robed man shook his head. "I'm not an Insect Armor Smith. I'm a Fourth-Grade Artifact Refiner."

"I'm going to the Radiant Moon Empire to take part in the Western Region Artifact Refinement Competition. This year's competition is crawling with monsters, so I originally had no confidence at all."

"But with this metal helping me, I think the championship of this Artifact Refinement Tournament is in the bag."

The black-robed man clenched his fist, held his head high and chest out, and revealed immense confidence.

Long Xuan's expression turned strange at those words.

Him? He wanted to win the Western Region Artifact Refinement Competition?

This fellow was not human. There was a high chance he was a spirit beast that had taken human form.

It was already bewildering enough for a transformed spirit beast to learn human Artifact Refinement. Yet he dared proclaim that he would take first place in the Artifact Refinement Tournament and crush every human artifact refiner. What outrageous arrogance.

The more Long Xuan looked, the stranger it felt. Could a spirit beast's talent for artifact refinement truly surpass that of humans? He found it hard to believe.

Having run an Insect Armor Shop for so long, with people constantly coming and going, his information network was fairly well-connected. He knew that the ten nations led by the Radiant Moon Empire were holding the Western Region Artifact Refinement Competition.

This Western Region Artifact Refinement Competition was on exactly the same scale as the Alchemy Competition half a year ago. It had gathered nearly every artifact refiner in the Western Region, and many people from the City of Sin had already set off early to watch the spectacle.

Not only that, he had heard that the Western Region Formation Competition and Western Region Talisman-Making Competition would follow the