"Under normal circumstances, that's very difficult. A weapon's Tier is determined by its material. If you replace the material, it's the equivalent of forging a new weapon."
"But if you don't replace the material, you can't upgrade it. The kind of upgrade you're imagining isn't possible through conventional means."
He said all this in a single, rapid-fire breath.
'So that's how it is...' Su Chen more or less understood. Take his Cyan Rope, for example. Its material could only support it up to Tier Two. If he replaced the materials, how would that be any different from a new weapon? He wouldn't be able to use Secret Artifact Control on it anymore.
In other words, he needed something like the weapon upgrade effect he received as an extra reward when he became a Tier One Secret Magic Apprentice.
"I'll be going, then." Seeing Su Chen's silence, Jiang Xi made to leave again.
