[Road to fame: Have ten thousand people acknowledge your artifact refining abilities (completed); reward: earthcore flame (available for withdrawal at any time)] [Road to fame: Create a custom weapon for a person of renown and have it win recognition from the world; reward: intermediate magic treasure theory] [Turn two renowned people into a couple (completed); reward: 5 Matchmaker's Red Threads (issued)] [Couples need publicity, and love needs celebration. Give the couple you created a love story that will inspire longing in the world; reward: Moon Chase (requires two or more targets; Moon Chase can banish one person, forcibly separating them)]
After Lin Bai helped a Golden Core cultivator from the Blood Shadow Gate named Xuan Hong upgrade his Bloodsucking Sword, a notification announcing the quest's completion abruptly sounded in his mind.
Lin Bai was overjoyed.
Sure enough.
Every quest had a shortcut.
If he relied on burying his head in smithing and selling weapons to get ten thousand people to acknowledge his artifact refining abilities, who knew how many monkey years and horse months it would take?
But putting on a show like this in public was different.
Even if his artifact refining abilities fell short of the masters at the Spirit Artifact Pavilion.
In the eyes of ordinary people, anyone who could spectacularly upgrade the weapons of cultivators who flew through the skies and burrowed through the earth was a genuine Artifact Refining Master...
After all.
True Artifact Refining Masters stood far above the masses. They were either researching techniques or cultivating and refining artifacts. Who else was as down-to-earth as him, performing artifact refining for ordinary people right on the street?
By the standards of modern society, he was a grassroots artifact refining expert who excelled at publicity.
Upgrading kitchen knives for commoners would never