Chapter 2084 — The Artificer?
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Wei Zhao was full of anticipation. If this was a universal martial technique, then learning other martial techniques should likewise be a matter of ease! And if he himself could cultivate it to the utmost purity, he might even be able to instruct Han Xiaohu personally and spare him some detours!
Of course, if Wei Zhao could not cultivate this martial technique, then the lowest-grade "Woodchopping Art" probably could not be cultivated either—after all, this was a wood-attribute martial technique, whereas what Wei Zhao had cultivated before were fire-attribute martial techniques. Though Wei Zhao did not know what system of mental method the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art belonged to, since he could cultivate fire-attribute martial techniques, it was presumably a fire-attribute mental method!
Still, he could not rule out surprises—after all, the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art was called a universal mental method, and could not be measured by common sense...
"This last one... is not a martial technique..." Han Tianba saw Wei Zhao pointing at the last box and said with a bitter smile.
"Not a martial technique? Then what is it?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback.
"This is a book related to the profession of artificer..." Han Tianba said. "But I hear the artificer was a profession of ancient times, now extinct..."
"Artificer?" Wei Zhao's eyes flickered slightly. The Hidden Han Family truly had no shortage of good things—they even had a book on artificers?
"That is so. It is also the most precious book found in the ancient ruins. Only... with my aptitude, I could not quite understand it, nor do I possess the constitution and abilities mentioned in the book..." Han Tianba said.
"May I take a look?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat intrigued.
"Naturally. With Mr. Lin here, any secret manual may be examined freely!" Han Tianba said without hesitation. "Only, that book on artificers is likely of little use. I hear it requires dual-system cultivation—only a cultivator who simultaneously practices mental methods of two attributes can even attempt to learn it!"
"Oh?" Wei Zhaoslowly opened the last wooden box, and a thread-bound ancient tome came into view, bearing six large characters: "Fragmentary Scroll on the Way of Mending Artifacts"! Wei Zhao carefully took out the tome and began to leaf through it.
Sure enough, at the head of the scroll was an introduction to the tome. It was indeed a book related to artificers, yet it was not for artificers to use. According to the introduction, an artificer had to cultivate simultaneously the mental method formulas of metal, wood, and fire before he could become an artificer!
The trade this book introduced was not the artificer's, but shared the same origin with it. It was called the artifact mender!
An artifact mender needed only to cultivate the metal and wood mental methods simultaneously.
The so-called artifact mender could not forge and temper divine weapons and sharp blades himself, but could repair damaged divine weapons and sharp blades—for instance, a third-grade medicine cauldron damaged in alchemy, ancient weapons damaged in battle, and so on, all could be repaired using the methods taught in this book!
Of course, like alchemists, artifact menders were also graded first-grade, second-grade, third-grade, and even higher. Only, this "Fragmentary Scroll on the Way of Mending Artifacts" was called a fragmentary scroll because it mentioned only the repair methods for damaged divine weapons and sharp blades of grades one through three; of grades above three it said nothing. One could tell that it was not that such knowledge did not exist, but merely that this book did not record it!