The gardener said, glancing at the fatty,
"How long will it take you to reach the Half-Step Town Guardian level? If you reach the Half-Step Town Guardian level, we can deal with Zhang Wei, even if he has a Town Guardian-level magical artifact."
"Cough, although saying this might lower my prestige, I still have to say it. It's not easy to advance to the Half-Step Town Guardian level. I did make some progress recently, but I'm still a distance away from the Half-Step Town Guardian level."
The fatty coughed, but his inner thoughts were different:
"Half-Step Town Guardian level, huh? If I had Zhang Wei's ghost back tattoo's enhancement, I would already be at the Half-Step Town Guardian level. But I'm not going to tell Gardener that, hehe."
Then.
Fearing that speaking too much would expose him, both the fatty and the gardener thought this. They exchanged a few simple words and ended their conversation.
...
On the other side.
After Sen Luo hung up the phone with Gardener, he glanced at Yin Yang beside him.
He saw...
At this moment, Yin Yang was holding a truckload of sacks with one hand and his phone with the other, occasionally sliding the screen.
Leaning closer to see.
Yin Yang's phone displayed an international forum. He was clicking on various posts about Zhang Wei refining magical artifacts, wanting to see how Zhang Wei refined them. Unfortunately, after scrolling through a dozen posts, they were all praising Zhang Wei's prowess, with no specific details on how he refined them.
However.
As Yin Yang scrolled through another dozen posts, all discussing Zhang Wei but not mentioning the refining process, and was about to stop looking.
"Hmm?"
A post caught his attention. It was posted by a forum user with the ID [Xiao Xuan]:
[Accidental Major Discovery! Bold Guess: Zhang Wei's Artifact Refining Is Suspected to Be by a Beginner]
Looking at this post.
Yin Yang's eyebrows twitched slightly:
"Beginner? Is artifact refining child's play? Sen Luo, is this Xiao Xuan the Xiao Xuan from the Old Generals Ranking?"
He muttered to himself, asking Sen Luo beside him.
Sen Luo glanced at Xiao Xuan's ID and nodded:
"It should be him. Click on the posts he published and see if there are any posts about the Old Generals Ranking or New Stars Ranking. If there are, then it's him."
After confirming Xiao Xuan as the publisher.
Although he scoffed at the post's title, Yin Yang still clicked on it. This was the only post he had seen so far that involved Zhang Wei's artifact refining; all others were discussions about Zhang Wei.
Then.
Yin Yang clicked into the post.
[Good evening, everyone. I'm Xiao Xuan, a student from Great Xia! I believe everyone already knows, or has seen my previous post that was published not long ago, that Zhang Wei has successfully refined a Town Guardian-level magical artifact.
To put it bluntly.
Zhang Wei refining a Town Guardian-level magical artifact shows that he not only has cultivation talent but also artifact refining talent.
As everyone knows, artifact refining is different from cultivation; one needs to understand the pairing of artifact materials, etc. And everyone knows Zhang Wei's situation – he is a rogue cultivator. So, out of curiosity, I'm very curious about who Zhang Wei learned artifact refining from.
Then I spent a bit of 'money power' to check Zhang Wei's forum account backend records, hoping to find some clues. To my surprise... or rather, from Zhang Wei's browsing post records, I discovered... it seems Zhang Wei is self-taught!
And!
Zhang Wei seems to have only started learning artifact refining recently!
Yes, you read that right, Zhang Wei only started learning artifact refining a few days ago, just two or three days ago.
I think by now, those who understand artifact refining should be typing furiously, already playing the piano on their keyboards, scoffing at what I'm saying. Learning artifact refining two or three days ago, is this some kind of joke? Learning in two or three days and then refining a Town Guardian-level magical artifact?
However.
Before everyone starts to criticize, Xiao Xuan asks everyone to let me say a few more words, or rather, please look at the two screenshots I've posted below.]
As Xiao Xuan said this.
Yin Yang saw two screenshots added below. These were Zhang Wei's forum backend search records and browsing records.
In the first search record, in the past two or three days, Zhang Wei had searched for terms like "how to refine magical artifacts," "what are magical artifact materials," "what happens if a magical artifact is broken," "what happens if a broken magical artifact is repaired," and so on.
In the second browsing record, in the past two or three days, Zhang Wei had browsed posts like [Artifact Refining Basics, Beginner's Guide], [Artifact Refining Advanced, Expert's Guide], [Artifact Refining Master's Advancement], [The Simplest Method to Repair Magical Artifacts], and so on.
Upon seeing these two screenshots.
Even Yin Yang stopped in his tracks, his eyes widening slightly, his expression filled with a strange look:
"This..."
As someone capable of refining Town Guardian-level magical artifacts, Yin Yang knew best that Zhang Wei's search records and browsing records did not look like those of someone who could refine Town Guardian-level magical artifacts. They looked more like what a beginner would browse and search for. No, not "like," they were definitely those of a beginner.
With a strange expression.
Yin Yang couldn't help but look at the rest of the post's content.
[Have you all seen these two pictures? First, I, Xiao Xuan, solemnly declare that these two pictures, apart from me blurring Zhang Wei's private information such as his address, account name, etc., his browsing records and search records have absolutely not been tampered with. If I have tampered with them, may I die a terrible death and be without descendants.]
[I think after seeing these records, you no longer want to criticize me, but are shocked, right? I'm the same as you. My first reaction after seeing these records was, is Zhang Wei an artifact refining master? Isn't this something only a pure beginner would do?]
[Then, after my research for the past few hours, looking at all the posts Zhang Wei browsed and his search records, I boldly guess that Zhang Wei might have only started learning artifact refining two or three days ago. *kicks chair under feet and falls down.jpg*]
Yin Yang fell silent.
Although it was Xiao Xuan's analysis, in fact, his thoughts were the same as Xiao Xuan's.
Thinking of this.
Yin Yang became even more silent, feeling a sense of existential doubt... Zhang Wei learned artifact refining for three days, learned how to repair artifacts, and even improved the repaired artifacts, completely crushing my decades of effort. What have I been doing all these years?
Just then.
"Yin Yang, what's wrong?"
Sen Luo noticed Yin Yang's silence, turned back to look at the stopped Yin Yang, his eyes under the bronze mask filled with confusion.
Yin Yang looked up when he heard this, did not speak, and simply handed his phone to Sen Luo.
Seeing this.
Sen Luo, with a look of confusion, took the phone and looked. Then, as his face under the bronze mask saw the content of the post, his eyebrows first twitched, and then as he read the post more deeply, his expression gradually became strange. By the end, even though he wore a mask, Yin Yang could see his thoughts from the change in his eyes.
Then.
As if knowing what Sen Luo wanted to ask, Yin Yang spoke first:
"If those two screenshots are real, Zhang Wei is definitely a beginner."
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