One… ten… a hundred—after nearly two hundred failed attempts and destroyed materials, Yuan finally began gaining a deeper understanding of his affinity.
However, even with his monstrous level of comprehension talent, he still could not grasp it quickly enough to finish before the banquet.
As a result, he ultimately decided to stop his experiments for the time being.
Afterward, Yuan stored the Void Fragment back into his spatial ring, along with the hammer, the anvil, and the golden wheel.
"Are you finished?" Zi Xuan asked him.
"For now, yes," Yuan replied. "If I continue working on it, I'll definitely gain enough understanding of my affinity to properly refine materials with it. However, at the current pace, it would take far too long."
He then continued in a defeated tone, "And even if I somehow managed to succeed, I still wouldn't dare use it on Number One Under Heaven until I'm completely confident in my ability to control it."
