Lin Feng had Lu Yun buy Artifact Refining Materials that were precisely the materials for forging the Heavy Abyss Axe, which left Lu Yun inwardly full of doubt.

At this time, what did Lin Feng want so many sets of Heavy Abyss Axe materials for?

Could it be that he wasn’t confident about the assessment and now wanted to cram at the last minute?

Lu Yun secretly guessed, but he didn’t ask further; in any case he absolutely couldn’t offend Lin Feng again now, lest he suffer retaliation in the future.

After Lu Yun left, Qin Busi, who had been quietly listening at the side, couldn’t help letting out a sigh.

"Lin Feng, it seems the outside world is far more complicated than we imagined!"

Qin Busi’s face was full of worry as he continued, "I didn’t expect the Witch Clan to be so powerful. In the future every step we take will probably be filled with hardship."

"It’s fine!"

Lin Feng shook his head and said, "As long as we get through this crisis, the world is vast; the Witch Clan will find it no easy task to locate us!"

Lin Feng didn’t feel much fear; the stronger the enemy, the less he was willing to yield!

"Sigh! Let’s hope so!" Qin Busi let out a long breath.

After that, the two didn’t talk much more and each began Cultivation.

Lin Feng sat cross‑legged, quietly condensing his Dark Power and consolidating his Cultivation while he waited for Lu Yun to deliver the Artifact Refining Materials. Once he survived this tribulation, he would madly raise his Cultivation.

Early the next morning, Lu Yun once again came to Lin Feng’s residence and handed over the Artifact Refining Materials he had collected, as well as an Emperor Level Artifact Refining Furnace.

The Artifact Refining Materials were enough to forge twenty Heavy Abyss Axes, not one set more or less.

This time, Lu Yun made thirty percent profit from it.

Ten Emperor Level Treasures were extremely valuable, while the materials to forge them weren’t all that expensive. If not for the additional Artifact Refining Furnace, Lu Yun could have made over sixty percent profit.

Lin Feng was very clear about this, but for his own goals, a bit of money wasn’t worth mentioning.

Once he had the materials, Lin Feng went into the Artifact Refining Room to begin refining.

It had to be said, Lin Feng’s appetite was huge. He had never forged even Emperor Level Weapons before, yet now he wanted to take one step to the heavens and directly forge an Emperor Level Weapon.

Inside the Artifact Refining Room.

The massive Artifact Refining Furnace sat in the center of the room, while twenty neatly arranged sets of Artifact Refining Materials lay on the floor.

Lin Feng was sitting cross‑legged on the ground, his expression incomparably solemn.

"Senior Ou Lianzi said once that my spiritual power Talent is exceptional, that I’m a born Artifact Refiner. I hope that’s really true!" Lin Feng took a deep breath, then closed his eyes.

He needed to run through the forging steps for the Heavy Abyss Axe several more times in his mind from start to finish, striving to make fewer mistakes.

Lin Feng still had some confidence. With his spiritual power Talent, as long as he strictly followed the steps recorded in the Artifact Refining Inheritance and refined steadily without any mishaps, forging the Heavy Abyss Axe wouldn’t be too big of a problem.

After a long time, Lin Feng opened his eyes again and began forging the Heavy Abyss Axe.

Swoosh!

With a wave of his palm, the furnace lid flew up and over a dozen types of materials flew into the Artifact Refining Furnace.

Then Lin Feng immediately closed the lid and began to light the fire.

Violent Fire Attribute Dark Power poured into the fire mouth, instantly transforming into blazing Flames.

The blazing Flames smelted the dozen or so types of materials, producing sizzling sounds. A short while later, almost every half‑breath, Lin Feng would add one or several more materials.

In no time, Lin Feng had already put in over a hundred types of materials.

The Melting of these materials was extremely particular; if the heat was even a bit too much or too little, it would cause the forging to fail.

Moreover, almost every material required a different Melting temperature, which greatly tested the refiner’s control.

He had to keep an iron grip on the power of the Flames—what level it needed to reach, when it should strengthen, when it should weaken. A difference of even a hair would spell failure.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle~~~

Amid a series of sizzling sounds, as expected, Lin Feng’s first attempt failed very quickly.

This was because one of the materials had been over‑melted, causing a total collapse.

Hoo!

Lin Feng drew in a deep breath. He didn’t rush to start again, but carefully recalled the refinement process just now, searching for the reason for his failure.

Failure itself wasn’t scary; what was scary was not knowing why you failed!

What he needed was progress, to improve with every attempt. He absolutely couldn’t make the same mistake twice!

An hour later, Lin Feng cleaned out the Artifact Refining Furnace and began his second attempt.

The second forging went a bit smoother than the first; he managed to Melt all three hundred and sixty‑odd materials.

However, because the fire was slightly too weak for the last two materials, the quality of the melted Artifact Embryo Solution didn’t meet the requirement, and it ended in failure once again.

Lin Feng rested for more than an hour again, carefully reflecting on his mistakes, then started forging once more.

The third time, failure!

The fourth time, failure!

The twelfth time, failure!

The thirteenth time, failure!

The fourteenth time, failure!

The fifteenth time, success!

For three days and three nights straight, Lin Feng refined without pause, and finally on the fifteenth attempt he succeeded!

Hoo!

Picking up the completely cooled War Axe from inside the furnace, Lin Feng carefully examined it.

This axe was a Short Axe, its shaft just over two feet long, with a huge axe head, like a small square table.

The entire axe was pitch‑black like ink, with a rather blunt edge, not sharp at all.

However, the axe was extremely heavy, unimaginably so. Holding it, Lin Feng felt as if he weren’t holding a Weapon but a mountain.

Weight—that was this axe’s greatest trait. This was because among the materials used to forge it, nearly a hundred were special materials of staggering weight.

"Very low quality." Lin Feng muttered to himself. Though the axe had reached Low Grade Emperor Level, its quality was extremely poor—bottom tier even among Low Grade Emperor Level Weapons.

Still, no matter how low its quality, this axe was ultimately a Low Grade Emperor Level Treasure.

"As long as it’s a success, that’s enough!" A faint smile appeared on Lin Feng’s face. As long as he succeeded, he could join the Artifact Refiner’s Guild.

That way he would not only be safe, but might even be able to ask a powerhouse of the guild to take action against those two Witch Clan Venerables.

A moment later, Lin Feng continued forging. He still had five sets of materials left and couldn’t waste them.

Besides, he had only succeeded once; he still wasn’t very practiced and needed more tempering.

After over a dozen hours, all the Artifact Refining Materials had been used up.

With the last five sets of materials, he failed only once and succeeded four times, his proficiency greatly increasing.

After that, Lin Feng didn’t waste any time. He immediately left the room to look for Manager Chai, ready to take the assessment.

He didn’t inform Qin Busi, going alone instead.

For Lin Feng, the sooner he passed the assessment and became a guild Artifact Refiner, the better.

...

More than ten miles outside the Artifact Refiner’s Guild.

In a luxurious inn, Wu Fan and Wu Yin stood at the window, gazing toward the not‑so‑distant Artifact Refiner’s Guild.

"What’s going on? Those two Natives have been inside the Artifact Refiner’s Guild for five days now; why haven’t they come out?"

Wu Fan’s face was gloomy as he spoke. Because he didn’t dare use his Spiritual Sense to probe the guild, he was starting to get anxious.

"Could they have just stayed inside the Artifact Refiner’s Guild and decided not to come out?" Wu Yin’s old face didn’t look too good either.

If that was really the case, then things would get troublesome!

"Here’s what we’ll do. You take the clan’s youths back to Tianming Star first. I’ll go into the Artifact Refiner’s Guild and take a look!" After thinking it over, Wu Fan spoke.

When they came to hunt down Lin Feng and Qin Busi, they had also brought along the clan youths who had taken part in the trial in the Heavenly Vault World and barely escaped alive, carrying them in a Space Treasure.

Because the Desolate Star where the Heavenly Vault World’s entrance was located was extremely far from their Tianming Star branch clan, without their guidance, those clan youths might take three to five years to make it back to Tianming Star.

"That works too!" Wu Yin nodded upon hearing this. The trial had ended for a long time now; if they didn’t return, the clan would probably be getting anxious.

Only, after they returned this time, the higher‑ups of the clan would likely erupt in Thunderous fury—over nine hundred genius youths had died; the entire branch clan would probably blow up!