Carson Flores knew quite a lot of things; in Alchemy he could at least barely be counted as a master, and by constantly listening to Ben Singleton talk about Formations he'd picked up some knowledge there too. As for Talismans, he'd stepped through the door but was still far from mastery, and he only had a rough grasp of the Way of the Sword Talisman. But when it came to Artifact Refining, he really didn't understand it.
The Artifact Refining competition was in full swing. In the vast Profound White Valley, flames shot into the sky, heat waves rolled, and all kinds of Demonic Beast Abnormal Phenomena kept rising up into the air, looking grand and imposing.
