With everything prepared, he began refining the materials. Mana flowed from his fingertips and wrapped around the items before him. Under the rising heat, they softened and melted before slowly fusing together. He added each new material at precisely the right moment, and all of his attention was soon absorbed in the work.

Fu Qinglan remained beside him without making a sound. At first, she merely watched out of curiosity, but the longer Luo Chen worked, the more difficult it became to hide her astonishment. He moved smoothly from one artifact creation technique to the next, adjusting the heat and mana as he continued the work. 

Her grandfather had once told her that Luo Chen was an accomplished alchemist. Later, when the Saint Alchemist underwent Ascension and gave Luo Chen one of the five Heaven Mystery Pills, she thought it was because the Saint Alchemist recognized him as a fellow practitioner of the Alchemy...