"Master Artisan Yang, I've finished. Please see whether my work meets your standards. If it falls short of your requirements, there's still some time left for me to make up the difference."
Li Chen crossed the Mu Household's estate and found Master Artisan Yang talking with Mu Qing on the other side. He addressed him.
"You've already finished?" Surprise crossed Mu Qing's face before he said delightedly, "Artisan Li, you truly work at astonishing speed. Back then, even..."
At that point, he seemed to remember something. With an awkward smile, he stopped speaking.
Li Chen said confidently, "Not only have I finished, I also used this formula to derive several usable alloys. Please, both of you, take a look."
He handed over several pieces he had refined. One fully met Master Artisan Yang's requirements for the test, while the others were products he had casually refined after unraveling the secrets involved.
"Have you encountered this material before?" Master Artisan Yang accepted them and examined them with his divine sense, his expression shifting with doubt and surprise.
Li Chen said, "Where would a man from the wilderness have had the chance to encounter such a thing?"
Master Artisan Yang gave a noncommittal reply and said nothing more.
Only after he declared that Li Chen had passed and Li Chen left did he turn to Mu Qing and say, "That young man must be lying!"
Mu Qing asked, "What makes you say that?"
Master Artisan Yang said with certainty, "How could someone who has never encountered this material unravel the formula's secrets in such a short time, and even produce several variations?"
Mu Qing frowned. He, too, felt that Li Chen, as a rogue cultivator, could not possibly have deciphered a formula passed down from Sky City so quickly.
Even if it