How joyous it is to feel your own growth with every passing moment. Jaekyung was so absorbed in artifact refinement that he lost all track of time. Within the flowing currents of time, his skill in artifact refinement advanced steadily, as if encountering no bottleneck, as though riding a favorable wind with full sails.
Some might disparage such growth, claiming it was achieved only by lavishly spending spirit stones, but that was nothing more than the jealousy of the incompetent. Growth is growth. Does it matter whether it comes from talent or from spirit stones?
Their criticism was nothing but envious grumbling—no different from the untalented envying the talented, or those without spirit stones envying those who had them. What Jaekyung had invested, if one had to be precise, was not spirit stones but the corpses of high-grade Great Spirit Beasts as refinement materials.
Yet in the end, from the standpoint of precious resources, it was the same thing. Moreover, he also had the artifact refiners he had brought from Artifact Refinement Island. Although their cultivation was only in the Qi Refining realm, they were still barely qualified to be called artifact refiners.