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Chapter 143: The First Shot of Artifact Refining
A group of True Immortal Cultivators engaged in an animated discussion.
They chatted from the Chaos Continent to various Immortal Realms, and from various Immortal Realms to the Ji'an Sea Area.
Occasionally, True Immortal Cultivators would also talk about their own insights on cultivation.
The Cultivators sat and discussed the Dao, making the atmosphere at the scene very lively.
Zhang Yuhe sat to the side, listening quietly and occasionally responding.
A few days later.
Liu Haitao, who was hosting the gathering, stood up and spoke.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoists, for sharing your experience. Next, we will begin the trade fair."
After speaking, he waved his right hand.
Several items then appeared before everyone's eyes.
Among them were two Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts, an Immortal sword, and an Immortal Artifact spear.
In addition, there were some Immortal materials and Spirit Herbs.
Seeing the items displayed by Liu Haitao, quite a few people at the scene were very interested.
They successively communicated with Liu Haitao through private voice transmissions.
Soon, the two Immortal Artifacts were traded away.
Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts were the main means for True Immortal Cultivators to deal with enemies.
A suitable Immortal Artifact could allow a True Immortal to unleash even greater strength.
Therefore, Immortal Artifacts had always been hot commodities.
For Liu Haitao to be able to take out two finished Immortal Artifacts at once for trade,
showed that his net worth was extremely abundant and incomparable to ordinary people.
He truly was a disciple of the Nine Immortals Sect.
After Liu Haitao, others successively displayed their trading items.
Some people took out Immortal-grade ores, while others took out Immortal-grade Spirit Herbs.
There were even people who took out cultivation techniques and Divine Abilities for trade.
Among them, a True Immortal Cultivator took out an acupoint-opening secret technique.
Although it was a secret technique that could only open three acupoints, it was still quickly exchanged away by another rogue cultivator present.
Zhang Yuhe sat to the side, and he could only watch quietly.
Because right now, he was truly penniless.
Apart from a set of Natal Magic Treasures that were Low-Grade Immortal Artifacts,
there was nothing else of value on his entire body.
Of course, the acupoint-opening secret technique did not count.
If he dared to take out the Chaos acupoint-opening secret technique for trade, he estimated that he would be made to disappear within minutes.
That thing could only rot in his own stomach; it was impossible to tell others.
As the trade fair progressed to the end,
He Xingfa suddenly stood up and asked Liu Haitao.
"I wonder if Fellow Daoist He from your esteemed Sect is currently in Ji'an Market. I would like to ask him to help refine an Immortal Artifact."
The Fellow Daoist He he mentioned was He Zhongming of the Nine Immortals Sect.
This person was an Immortal-grade Artifact Refiner and was extremely famous in the city.
It was said that the people looking for him to refine Immortal Artifacts were already lined up thousands of years later.
Artifact Refiners were still very popular in the Immortal Realm.
In fact, any True Immortal Cultivator,
as long as they could master an Immortal-grade skill, basically did not have to worry about resources for cultivation.
"Senior Brother He is currently not in the city. He has already returned to the Sect into seclusion, and I heard he won't take on any more Artifact Refining recently."
Hearing Liu Haitao's reply, He Xingfa's face showed a disappointed expression.
With his net worth, he could naturally afford ordinary finished Immortal Artifacts.
It was just that after cultivating an Immortal body,
He Xingfa wanted to specifically refine an Immortal Artifact to better unleash the power of the Immortal body.
For this, he had even specially collected Artifact Refining materials.
It was a pity that he had never found a suitable Artifact Refiner.
Although there were quite a few Artifact Refiners in the city,
these people either had too low a success rate or not a very good reputation.
He Xingfa did not trust these people very much, and he had only collected one set of Artifact Refining materials.
In case the refinement failed, everything would go down the drain.
Artifact Refiners would not compensate you if the refinement failed.
Just as he was looking depressed, a voice entered his ears.
"If Brother He trusts this younger brother, you can come find me later."
Hearing the voice transmission, He Xingfa couldn't help feeling a bit puzzled, and he glanced at Zhang Yuhe.
He tried to ask via voice transmission,
"Is Brother Zhang also an Artifact Refiner?"
"Yeah, we can chat in detail later."
"Alright."
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The gathering ended, and everyone left separately.
Not long after Zhang Yuhe returned to his residence,
He Xingfa quickly came looking for him.
He cupped his fists at Zhang Yuhe and said,
"I didn't expect Brother Zhang to also be an Artifact Refiner. Forgive this one for being blind."
"Brother He is too polite. I wonder what type of Immortal Artifact Brother He wants to refine?"
There were many types of Immortal Artifacts.
Ordinary sword and spear types were considered mainstream and relatively easy-to-succeed Immortal Artifact types.
In addition, there were some special Immortal Artifacts.
For example, enemy-trapping Immortal Artifacts, weight-type Immortal Artifacts, and even complete sets of Immortal Artifacts.
The difficulty of refining these Immortal Artifacts
was relatively much higher.
He Xingfa looked at Zhang Yuhe and said with a slight hesitation in his expression,
"I want to refine a weight-type Immortal Artifact to use with my Immortal body."
"But I currently only have one set of materials. I wonder if Brother Zhang is confident?"
"As for the reward for Artifact Refining, it will definitely satisfy Brother Zhang."
He knew nothing about Zhang Yuhe, and if it weren't for the fact that Xie Mingyuan had brought him over,
he would never have come to his door.
Among Artifact Refiners and Immortal Pill alchemists, there were truly quite a few who scammed people.
Some people clearly had no confidence themselves, yet they made all sorts of guarantees.
Taking other people's materials to practice on.
And finally dismissing people with a sentence that the refinement failed.
Therefore, unless it was an Artifact Refiner with deep friendship or an extremely good reputation,
ordinary people were truly not very willing to seek out other Artifact Refiners.
Zhang Yuhe was someone brought by Xie Mingyuan, and Xie Mingyuan had an extremely booming reputation in the Ji'an Sea Area.
He Xingfa couldn't find a reliable Artifact Refiner for the time being, which was why he came to ask.
Zhang Yuhe considered it silently for a moment.
As for the issue of the success rate, he never worried about it.
Ever since he first came into contact with Artifact Refining, he had never failed.
The only question now was how to make He Xingfa believe him.
He thought for a good while before slowly saying,
"If I say I can guarantee one hundred percent success, Brother He certainly won't believe it."
"However, we can establish a contract. If the refinement fails, I will not take a single coin and will compensate Brother He with half of the material cost. How about that?"
"Alright, it's settled then."
Zhang Yuhe's condition could be said to be extremely generous.
He Xingfa did not hesitate at all.
He immediately took out a contract, and both parties left their marks on it, not fearing that the other party would go back on their word.
After the contract was signed, He Xingfa handed over a Storage Ring and said,
"Here are the Immortal Artifact materials. I want a weight-type long staff Immortal Artifact, or a heavy hammer would also do."
"No problem. Brother He, come pick up the goods in half a year."
Zhang Yuhe took the Storage Ring and nodded in response.
After He Xingfa left,
Zhang Yuhe quickly came to the Artifact Refining Room.
This was his first shot in Ji'an Market,
so he couldn't be careless.
According to He Xingfa's needs, Zhang Yuhe quickly planned out the shape and system of the Immortal Artifact.
He intended to use the Nine Heavens Flying Spirit Staff as a blueprint to refine a long-staff-shaped Low-Grade Immortal Artifact.
As the materials were put into the Refining Cauldron,
Zhang Yuhe quietly watched the changes in the cauldron while slowly Cultivating.
After becoming a True Immortal, the progress of cultivation was extremely slow.
Zhang Yuhe roughly estimated it.
Even with his heaven-defying Aptitude, wanting to cultivation to the Middle Stage True Immortal
might also take several thousand or even tens of thousands of years.
If he could open the three acupoints in advance, the cultivation speed could probably be a bit faster,
but it should still take four to five thousand years to breakthrough to the Middle Stage True Immortal.
Such a cultivation speed should be said to be extremely fast.
You must know that Xie Mingyuan took two hundred thousand years to breakthrough to the Late Stage True Immortal.
Even so, he could still be considered a peerless Genius in the Ji'an Sea Area.
But Zhang Yuhe still felt it was too slow.
In Yu Fantian, he was accustomed to rocket-speed cultivation.
Now that it suddenly slowed down, it made him feel extremely unaccustomed.
However, cultivation for an Immortal was just like this.
Take it slow.
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