Chapter 275: [Bonus Chapter]Artifacts Grading (1/2)

The first set of competitions was for Artifact making, poison making, and dancing.

Alex watched from the seating area as the group of participants put in metals and different materials inside the giant cauldron and started melting them.

However, unlike last time, they didn't put all the ingredients in and instead just the bare minimum of them. Instead, once the cauldron had melted what they had put in, the participants took out the molten object and started beating them with giant hammers as they were cooling.

From time to time, they would put in other ingredients and hammer it away. Once the new object was cooled, they would put it back in the cauldron and melt it once more.

Then, they would take it out and start beating it with a hammer once more. As such, through a back and forth method, they used up all the materials they owned and made the perfect artifact they could.

Everyone started giving their resulting product to the host, and Alex realized it would take them some time to test out the effectiveness.

So, he diverted his attention to the poison-making.

Poison making was very simple to grade. All the host had to do was check the effectiveness of the poisons by mixing them with a predetermined solution and the winner would be easily determined.

Within a few minutes, the result was up. The winner was a disciple from a sect called the Heaven Poisoning sect, beating another participant from the Dark Forest sect by a small margin.

Royal Fu academy wasn't even in the top 5 this time around, which was surprising. Alex then looked towards the Dancing competition, however, that was over already.

It was the first one to have been completed and he had missed it. So, he went back to looking at the artifact competition.

The way to determine whether an artifact was good or not was a little different from grading a pill or formation or poison.

Pill grades were based on the harmony of said pill, poison on the effectiveness of the poison, and formation on the efficiency of the formation.

They all could have had different ranks, but that was what the grades were based on.

For artifacts, however, the things were rather arbitrary. An artifact didn't have a specific grading system and instead lied at the whims of its maker.

Still, they had to follow some sort of sense because the rest of the world had the ability to set its grade as well.

The creators mostly set the grade based on what the artifacts could do and how well they could do it.

For example, a simple sword made using the True rank recipe. No matter how well it could be made, would still only remain a normal sword.

As such, it had anything more than a mortal grade was hard to justify. Unless it could somehow suddenly cut through metals like paper, it would always have a mortal grade.

In comparison, a pill cauldron made using the finest of golden jade, one that could transfer heat very well could be an Earth-grade artifact without a problem. If it was very well made, it could also be a heaven-grade artifact.