Dragon-Snake Escape Art!
Although 499 was a price Yue Wen had never paid before, he still felt the money had been exceptionally well spent. An extraordinary ability that could open any Storage Artifact could probably fetch an astronomical price on the open market.
Especially among thieves.
They could not open the stolen goods themselves, and hiring a Formation Master to unlock them cost a fortune and carried risks. With Supernatural Powers specifically meant to crack Storage Artifacts, committing further crimes would become far too convenient.
The moment Yue Wen finished comprehending it, he took out Qimo Tuo's purple gemstone ring. He rubbed it twice, then tried to penetrate it with the Dragon-Snake Escape Art.
Previously, even his Divine Sense had failed to find an entrance into the ring, but this time, it actually began to give. Yue Wen could sense layer upon layer of complex arrays covering the Storage Artifact's surface, like a skyscraper dozens of stories tall!
What he now had to do was travel from the top floor all the way to the bottom-by crawling through the ventilation ducts one floor at a time.
Even as it gave him a headache, Yue Wen marveled at the prowess of Formation Masters. They could actually carve such a magnificent, grand array diagram onto such a tiny gemstone.
And this was only a Storage Artifact that Da Long had called "trash."
How vast would the array diagrams inscribed on higher-grade Spirit Treasures, or even the finest divine artifacts, be?
Human effort really could accomplish such things.
If the cultivation world were divided into academic disciplines, Formation Masters would probably be equivalent to scientists studying advanced mathematics and physics, while artifact refiners applied their research to practical fields such as product design or civil engineering.
The two overlapped considerably. Many artifact refiners