Most importantly, customized level-4 equipment required the souls of the alchemist [a]and the equipment user to be compatible. It wasn't just a matter of another person joining in the process. The souls and minds of the alchemist and equipment user would need to be intertwined together.
This was a tall order as it meant that there had to be mutual trust between the alchemist and the equipment user. If one's soul was not being true to itself, the refining process would immediately fail. Trust was a hard thing to come by in the divine territory. Lavel searched high and low but ultimately decided that Wang Zhong was the only one who wouldn't pose a threat to her and had the ability to assist her.
As for the money required, it was peanuts to Lavel.
Lavel started to explain some details about soul compatibility. Other than Wang Zhong, it was also Lavel's first time doing this, but this process didn't seem too complicated to her.
