The top-grade metal materials Ye Chen had purchased in Lan Ye City were enough to forge three or four hundred top-grade treasure swords. Of those, materials capable of forging metal- and water-aspected swords accounted for roughly one-fifth, enough for around seventy top-grade treasure swords. Aside from the somewhat high failure rate at the beginning, his success rate later had been one hundred percent.
Thus, from that one-fifth of the materials, Ye Chen forged a total of fifty-four top-grade treasure swords: twenty-five low-tier, twenty-two mid-tier, and seven high-tier. The varying grades were not solely due to Ye Chen's improving skill in the later stages; the primary reason was the quality of the materials. The more powerful the sword, the better the materials it required. Even being slightly lacking would not do.
By the time there were fifty-four top-grade treasure swords on the third floor, another four months had passed. Subtracting the previous seven swords, Ye Chen had forged an average of twelve swords a month. If word got out, it would be enough to shake all of Firebird Star—no, the entire Vermilion Bird Starfield.
Twelve swords a month meant one hundred and forty-four swords a year, and one million four hundred and forty thousand swords in ten thousand years. Even if, out of a lifespan of one hundred thousand years, only ten thousand were spent forging swords, he could still create wealth measured in the hundreds of millions. And that was assuming his skill never improved.
Blazing Fire City was enormous, spanning several thousand li in every direction. Of course, most of that area was the outer city; the inner city covered only around a hundred li. Recently, however, Falling Dust Sword Pavilion on West Street of the inner city had become completely famous. Basically every Life and Death Realm swordsman