Naturally, the Primordial Dao Lord ultimately failed to ask that question.
If he really asked it, the Primordial Dao Palace would lose all its face.
As they spoke, Wang Ningxi took over the task of receiving the distinguished guests and led them on a tour of the headquarters complex of the Wang Clan Artifact Refining Directorate.
This complex covered several million square meters. Aside from a small number of administrative offices, most of it housed artifact-refining and materials research centers.
"Esteemed seniors, please look. This is the Low-Grade Materials R&D Center." Wang Ningxi led everyone through one of the buildings.
There were hundreds of R&D project teams within this building. The projects in their hands all involved familiar first- and second-grade artifact-refining materials. Even with visitors present, those R&D teams remained focused on their own projects, immersed in their research.
Normally, unless materials of this grade existed in sufficiently vast quantities, these Sacred Venerables and Dao Lords would not even have the interest to spare them a glance. Yet now, they watched the teams' every move with great interest.
What drew their attention, however, was not the materials, but the dazzling array of instruments.
Yet after studying them for quite some time, they discovered that there were many things they could not understand even by looking.
"Ningxi." With his hands clasped behind his back, the Primordial Dao Lord looked around like a great leader inspecting the grounds. Yet his brows were creased with confusion. "Is it truly worthwhile to expend such enormous manpower and resources on low-grade materials?"
"Of course it is worthwhile. Basic materials are the most heavily consumed materials throughout the Void Sea. Once a breakthrough is made, its effects will be comprehensive."
"Still, materials research is an immense systematic undertaking. Alloys in particular are extraordinarily complicated and