Artifact World Investigation

"Good. Time to inspect these Artifacts." Lei Jin said, opening his mind's eye.

He spread his consciousness through the Artifact world. He needed to do this one at a time. Anything else and it would be too difficult for him to get proper information from these Artifacts. Yang Kai hadn't kept the one he had so Lei Jin could only start from scratch. This was what others had thought. However, Lei JIn knew one thing already. That was that these Artifact worlds could be absorbed into the cultivators small universe.

Inside of the Artifact World the air was fresh. The water was clean, and the land was fertile. It was the perfect place to build a village and then later a city. With such an environment it would be difficult to raise an unhealthy population. Currently the world is small but this could change as the foundation of the world itself grows in time. Though it was a paradise for life it could hardly be considered a cultivation paradise.

The limits of the heavenly way in this world were close to pathetic. At best this world could support at most a few 1st order emperors provided not too many reach the Dao Source realm.

"It seems the heavenly way is expanding to support more, however it doesn't seem to be enough." Lei Jin said to himself as he inspected the whole world.

"This place really isn't a good place to cultivate. In fact I would say the only reason emperors can even exist here is because the original world force came from a 7th rank. Maybe I should try and see what happens if I refine resources into it." Lei Jin thought.

He pulled out a few different sets of materials.he wanted to use the ones others wouldn't even give the time of day. The thing is low rank and mid rank resources are easily obtained. For crying out loud there are many things inside the Azure Void Cave Heaven that can grow these resources. So it stands to reason that they would be relatively useless aside from refining open heaven pills.

"Let's start with a set of rank 1 resources and refine them into this first artifact world to see what happens." He thought to himself.

The resources turned into energy and fused into a prenatal world force. This prenatal world force created from such a reaction fused itself into the Artifact world with ease. There was zero resistance and zero set back,

"That was almost too easy. Perhaps I should move on to another Artifact and let this one play out the happenings within for the time being." Lei Jin thought.

The four Artifacts rotated with Lei Jin at the center. This time He took a look at a similar world that had been created. This one had slightly more land and slightly less water. More of this land was covered with dense forests, unlike the first one.

"Hmm, so each of the Artifacts created will have slightly different variations." Lei Jin thought as he inspected this world's abilities and limitations.

This second world indeed had a similar total energy as the other one from before did. This was a relief to find out. Since Lei Jin had thought there might have been something wrong with the recipe instructions or perhaps it was his fault. But everything he found out only continued to confirm the recipe was not only accurate but it was quite good.

The slight variations in each world were not a bad thing. Quite the opposite in fact. These different variations provided the chance to have people develop in new and varied ways. These variations could prove vital to the development of the human race.

"This is better than I thought it was going to be. It seems these will stand up to be used as replacements for Universe worlds. I'll be able to save the people in those dying worlds I saw." He thought, excited.

He then investigated the other two Artifacts first before anything else. Each had slight variations of biome types. However they all still had the similar level of total energy as the previous 2.

"It must be safe to assume these Artifacts are all going to start out this way. I wonder what the difference would be if it was an 8th rank masters World force. Would it start out at a different level? I wonder." Lei Jin thought.

He took a look back at the first Artifact to see its progress. It had been a few weeks now so inside the Artifact a few months had passed. This was enough to see what the difference was. As well as a way to reveal any possible hidden dangers.

Lei Jin began inspecting it closely. "It seems there haven't been any dangerous hidden effects from absorbing the materials. Perhaps these Artifact worlds could handle the rank 2 resources. I'll give it a try." he thought to himself.

Lei Jin began refining a set of rank 2 resources into the Artifact world. The one he had refined the rank 1s in previously accepted this. However the other three refused as if they had their own wills.

"I see, so I was telling these worlds to crawl before learning how to control their arms and legs. Hmmm, then for each of these Artifact worlds I'll need a set of rank 1 materials to advance it into accepting the second rank." He thought to himself and logged this information.

Lei Jin then refined the rank 1 resources into the remaining 3 Artifact worlds. Doing this he decided to run more experiments after the Artifacts had fully grown accustomed to the new level they found themselves in.

"Let's see… if I instead use multiple rank 1 resources how many will it take to be equivalent to the rank 2 resources?" Lei Jin thought. "Looks like I'm extending my stay in seclusion until I figure this out." He continued thinking.

Lei Jin spent more time in seclusion and discovered that there was indeed a limit of sorts. The most important thing was that the Artifact worlds required a full set of materials refined at once. Next most important thing was the rank requirement. This was slightly complex but made sense. The Artifact world needed to refine a set of rank 1 first. Then it would be able to do a set of rank 2. Unfortunately there was no way to skip this progression. This Limitation applied to the following ranks as well.

Lastly, Lei Jin used a total of 8 sets of rank 1 resources on each of the worlds. The world force gained from the 8th set was so negligible to the point he decided to completely ignore using them any further. He had originally used 8 sets for each Artifact World even after the first one failed to give decent results. He had wanted to confirm his original findings. Thankfully he did this now instead of wasting higher ranked materials senselessly.