"Shopkeeper Lin, the Blood Shadow Gate, Setting Sun Sect, Profound Darkness Cult, Demon Spirit Sect, and Blood Separation Sect entered the Immortal Oversight Bureau today." Lone Elder came to the Artifact Refining Workshop to report to Lin Bai. "They brought plenty of Heaven-Sent Ones with them. They're probably the ones they intercepted along the way..."
"Oh. How are preparations for the Defect Exhibition coming along?" Lin Bai concentrated on engraving a formation onto a ring-shaped artifact without even lifting his head. Now that he had mastered basic formation theory, the formation engraved on the Windbreaker sword held no secrets for him.
Tong Cha could hardly have given him a truly top-tier Magic Treasure on their first meeting. The formation inscribed on the Windbreaker sword's blade was a simple amplification formation, operating on much the same principle as a miniature power amplifier.
There were many basic formations that could be engraved on weapons: enhancement formations, attribute-adding formations, energy-storage formations, and so on.
The type of formation engraved on a Magic Treasure depended on the material itself.
Swords and sabers most commonly received sharpness enhancements, amplification, or fire attributes, while shields and armor mostly received durability, protection, or earth attributes...
Whether a formation could be engraved onto an artifact depended on the artifact refiner's proficiency. Most artifact refiners failed at the engraving stage. A single tremor of the hand could ruin an otherwise well-forged weapon...
Once a weapon made from rare artifact-refining materials was ruined, the chances of reforging it were extremely low.
Thus.
In the Immortal World, artifact refiners were just as precious as alchemists.
Those who could design formation diagrams based on a weapon's properties were masters; those who could both design diagrams and engrave them perfectly onto Magic Treasures and weapons were Artifact Refining Grandmasters.
Supposedly, only the