"Practice... practice on it???" Even someone as calm as Li Zongbao, someone who believed he understood Xiao Hua well, could not help but freeze. He asked in astonishment, "You... you want to use my Immortal-Piercing Whip... for practice?"
"Yeah! Why not?" Xiao Hua said with a grin. "Earlier, I only thought Qi Chengyi of Seven Spirit Mountain harbored ill intentions, but it turns out I really stumbled onto the right thing by accident! The tempering secret art he gave me... was certainly improper, and even had some enormous flaws! But I... already know artifact refinement. And I also have some secret arts. Put those secret arts together, and haha, there's a seventy percent chance this Immortal-Piercing Whip can be restored, and a ten percent chance it can even be upgraded into a spirit treasure!"
"Seventy percent? And you call that practice?" Li Zongbao was speechless.
"Oh? Of course. Anything Xiao Hua handles is guaranteed quality—there is only a perfect ten out of ten, never failure!" Xiao Hua said smugly. "That seventy percent chance only falls within the category of practice. If I fail, Senior Brother, don't go spreading it around!"
Xiao Mao laughed. "Big Brother, have you never failed before?"
"Who said that? No one is born an Artifact Refining Grandmaster. How could anyone never fail?" Xiao Hua knew what Xiao Mao was asking and added, "It's just that... Big Brother doesn't mention it, Senior Brother doesn't mention it... then isn't that a perfect ten out of ten?"
"Hahahaha!" Xiao Mao laughed until he bent forward and backward.
"Mm, if there's a seventy percent chance... that is certainly no small thing!" Li Zongbao was an elite disciple of the Joyful Sect; how could he not know how difficult it was to repair a magic treasure? Even the artifact-refining masters of