369: Opportunities are created by taking risks.

"Revered Master, that... actually, I was just boasting earlier. Please don't take it to heart!"

Seeing that Shen Yunshu was about to take it seriously, Liu Xuan actually felt a bit flustered. With her at the Late Golden Core Stage, he was afraid he couldn't handle her just yet.

Of course! If she insisted, Liu Xuan would be bold enough to give it a try. Opportunities are created by venturing out—how would he know he couldn't handle it without trying?

Shen Yunshu glanced at Liu Xuan. "At least you know your place, kid. Did you think this seat couldn't see through your little tricks?"

"Your cultivation is only at the Foundation Establishment Stage. No matter how special your spiritual body is, it can at most help a Foundation Establishment Cultivator achieve Core Formation. It is absolutely impossible for you to help this seat!"

"Revered Master is right!" Liu Xuan smiled faintly. "But what if I Breakthrough to the Golden Core cultivation?"

"Breakthrough to the Golden Core!" Shen Yunshu sized Liu Xuan up and down, finding him more and more pleasing to the eye the more she looked. "We'll talk about that when you actually make the Breakthrough!"

'This kid must have cultivated some profound Charm Technique.' She hurriedly averted her gaze to look elsewhere.

'No, wait! He's just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator. What Charm Technique could he possibly Cultivate that could affect her mind? It's probably the effect of that special spiritual body again!'

"Rest assured, Revered Master! Once I Breakthrough to the Golden Core Immortal Master Realm, as long as you have a need, this Disciple will definitely assist you with all my strength!"

Shen Yunshu's face turned red and black in turns. The way Liu Xuan said it made it sound as if she were begging to engage in Dual Cultivation with him—it was outright flirtation!

Yet, Liu Xuan's expression was filled with righteous solemnity, as if he were truly and completely thinking of her well-being.

'Forget it. Seeing that you are quite easy on the eyes, this seat won't argue with you!'

"This Revered Master is tired!"

Shen Yunshu waved her hand and said, "Arrange a Cultivation Chamber for me, and you may leave first. Tomorrow, I will go visit Immortal Master Yun Xian."

"I will get to it right away!" Liu Xuan gestured to Xiao Shuang (Younger Twin) beside him to lead Shen Yunshu to the Cultivation Chamber, then cupped his hands and bowed. "This Disciple shall take his leave!"

After leaving the reception hall, Liu Xuan first went to see Zhang Kexin and She Xiaorong, telling them to properly consolidate their cultivation. Then, he strolled around the inner courtyard, carried his daughter Xin Ci, and headed to the Artifact Refining Workshop to lecture the Artifact Refiners.

The Alchemy classes and Artifact Refining classes were held once a month, while the rest of the time was spent on mutual exchange and learning.

Normally, anyone from the Artifact Refining Workshop or the Pill Refining Tower could participate in the exchange classes. However, when Liu Xuan lectured in person, only the Liu Family Alchemists, Artifact Refiners, and his wives, concubines, and children who were interested in these two Daos could attend.

The lecture hall of the Artifact Refining Workshop.

Sitting in the back row, a former Artifact Refiner from the Beast Taming Sect sent a voice transmission to another Artifact Refiner next to him, asking, "Fellow Daoist, the Artifact Refining techniques taught by the Head of the Liu Family are very different from what I learned before! It's all about Materials refinement and part polishing. Why doesn't he teach complete Magical Artifact Refining?"

He carefully glanced at Liu Xuan lecturing up front and transmitted again, "The Head of the Liu Family is a Third-Rank Alchemist, but could his Artifact Refining level be subpar?"

The person next to him frowned. Seeing that Liu Xuan was currently answering a question for one of his sons in the front row—and that he happened to already know the answer to this question—he finally had time to pay attention to the questioner. "Brother, you must be new here, right?"

"That's right!"

With an "I knew it" look on his face, he sent a voice transmission, "Don't just look at the fact that the Head of the Liu Family is only teaching some steps of Artifact Refining. They actually delve deep into the essence, and many are closely guarded secrets that are extremely difficult to learn elsewhere."

"The Liu Family Artifact Refining Workshop is different from other workshops. Here, even if you only learn a smattering of it, you can earn cultivation resources!"

"Moreover, if you are exceptionally talented and can learn to refine all the parts, you will even have the Opportunity to become a Named Disciple of the Head of the Liu Family, gaining the chance to learn how to refine complete, large-scale Flying Boats!"

"Really?"

The man listened with rapt fascination. There had been no such opportunities back when he was in the Beast Taming Sect.

In the Dao of Artifact Refining, as long as the Sect deemed your talent insufficient to Breakthrough to the next Realm, you could only shine in your current Realm.

If you wanted to learn advanced knowledge, you first had to complete the Sect's Artifact Refining missions, then squeeze out time for yourself, and spend a large amount of tuition fees, only to possibly end up learning nothing at all.

A place like the Liu Family Artifact Refining Workshop, where one could continuously and systematically learn Artifact Refining knowledge, was indeed a heaven-sent Opportunity for them.

"That's nothing!" The person next to him was very satisfied with the newcomer's reaction and continued, "You know about our workshop's great sun flying boat, right? Do you know how long it takes to refine one?"

"The great sun flying boat?"

"You don't even know about that?"

"The great sun flying boat is a large-scale Flying Boat personally designed by the Head of the Liu Family. Currently, we mainly refine tier 2 low grade and tier 2 medium grade ones."

"tier 2 medium grade!" The newcomer was startled. "With the scale of our workshop, it must take at least a month to refine one!"

"A month?" The person next to him smiled disdainfully and held up five fingers. "We can refine five in a month!"

"And that's just our current speed. As the workshop expands, refining ten in the future won't be a problem!"

"Ten!" The newcomer looked shocked. "How many Spirit Stones would that sell for!"

"Not that much!"

"I've estimated that the gross profit of a single tier 2 medium grade great sun flying boat is only about one hundred thousand Spirit Stones."

Intending to give the newcomer another shock, he leaned in and said mysteriously, "Let me tell you a secret. Our workshop has been expanding all this time. I guess the ultimate goal of the Head of the Liu Family is to refine third-rank flying boats!"

"third-rank flying boats?!"

The newcomer's eyes widened, almost crying out in surprise. A third-rank large Flying Boat was a true strategic weapon. Not many people in the entire Southern Courtyard of the Beast Taming Sect could refine them, and their production was extremely limited.

Let alone the South Courtyard, even the entire Beast Taming Sect was short on stock. third-rank flying boats, third-rank pills, third-rank talismans, and third-rank formation plates—as long as they reached the third-rank level, most had to be imported from other Soul Transformation sects. After all, the Beast Taming Sect excelled in combat but was not skilled in cultivation arts.

"Watch closely and learn well!"

"Working under the Head of the Liu Family, our future is incredibly bright!"

The person next to him patted the newcomer's shoulder, then focused on the lecture, ignoring him.

...

After finishing his lecture, Liu Xuan carried his daughter and headed to the core of the Artifact Refining Workshop to refine the great sun flying boats that had accumulated during this period.

At the core of the Artifact Refining Workshop, five prototypes of the great sun flying boats were neatly lined up. Next to them, another one was only half-assembled, with An Yunxi directing a group of low-grade artifact refiners to complete the assembly.

The Liu Family Artifact Refining Workshop was not an ordinary workshop, but an industrialized artifact refining workshop specially designed by Liu Xuan.

After this period of development, it had now begun to take shape. With the support of the Southern Courtyard of the Beast Taming Sect joining in, the output had increased once again compared to before.

Liu Xuan chatted with An Yunxi for a few moments, then activated the Formation. While playing games with his daughter Xin Ci, he fused the Flying Boat prototypes into complete Spiritual Artifacts.

industrialized artifact refining, which broke down large Flying Boats into countless parts for refinement, simplified the overall Artifact Refining work, but for the Artifact Refiner performing the key fusion step, the difficulty was not reduced; rather, it was increased.

A single great sun flying boat had thousands of parts, and it was impossible for identical parts to be absolutely identical. The low-grade artifact refiners refining these parts would always make various minor mistakes.

Liu Xuan had to make adjustments based on the overall condition of all the parts before finally fusing them into a tier 2 medium grade great sun flying boat. This process was even more difficult than an ordinary Artifact Refiner refining a tier 2 high grade Flying Boat.