"Senior Brother Gao, how many techniques do you have to learn to become a qualified Weapon Forger?" Xu Yang asked curiously.
Although he had become a disciple of Blazing Fire Peak and decided to learn weapon forging, he actually knew very little about the craft.
Gao Lin shook his head. "It's hard to say what makes a qualified Weapon Forger, but there are countless techniques to learn. Iron-Refining Hand and Thousand-Forging Art are only the basics. Once you've learned both, you still have to learn Molten Gold Art, Shaping Method, and Weapon-Nurturing Art.
"After those come the more advanced Spirit Imbuement Technique, Spirit-Fusion Art, and Divine Refining Art."
Xu Yang was astonished. There were actually so many things to learn in weapon forging.
Gao Lin laughed. "Alchemy can't hold a candle to weapon forging. Alchemists are only in such demand because the pills they refine get used up in a few days, while the weapons we forge can last decades, even a century, without breaking."
There was some truth to that. An ordinary person probably needed only one weapon in their entire life.
Pills, on the other hand, could be consumed however many were available, and were needed every day.
Thus, although Weapon Forgers were the ones with true skill, their standing in the Rivers and Lakes carried far less weight than that of Alchemists.
People needed a Weapon Forger only once, but they always needed an Alchemist, so naturally they dared not offend one.
As they walked, Gao Lin suddenly pointed at a hall ahead. "That's the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall."
"As Inner Sect Disciples, our significance to the sect is different now. The sect values us, and we can draw upon some of its resources for a price. At the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, as long as you can afford