Quan Ningyue smiled heartlessly. Yes, Gao Muya was one of the several grand artificers. Even using his secret, Xu Yangyi still wouldn’t be able to currently afford this price, even if he was richer.

Xu Yangyi smiled wryly. “No discounts?”

The little lolita wagged a finger right before him, squinting her eyes and laughing like a fox, “Even in the mortal world, there are no discounts at luxury stores. You seriously want a grand artificer to make a discount? You’re too stingy.”

Xu Yangyi laughed bitterly and shook his head. It wasn’t that he couldn’t pay out 300,000 middle-grade spirit stones, but… this was merely the cost of Grandmaster Gao Muya undertaking the project. 

Artificing was never a matter of one-shot success. One could only pray for success in a single trial, but as for the prepared materials… Everyone was well aware that greater preparations weren’t certain to yield anything. This was an artificer’s red packet. Even Core Formation ancestors wouldn’t do such a thing. [1]

If the refinement wasn’t a success on the first attempt, then the lord artificer certainly wouldn’t prepare the other materials for him. Xu Yangyi would still have to find them himself. It was truly unknown how many materials the Ketu-Rahu...