Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

After a long, steep hike, Zen found himself in the courtyard. As he entered, Zen saw a bronze furnace standing taller than an adult, which he knew as the weapon refining furnace.

Once, a while back, he'd been held captive in Evil Lan's cave, and confined in the bowels of a refining furnace, while Evil Lan tried for quite some time to refine him. Back then, Zen planned to keep Evil Lan's refining furnace. However, it was too big and he couldn't fit it in his Space Ring. So, he had to give that plan up.

Evil Lan was a weapon refiner at half-step into the nature level. Although his refining abilities were unique, he couldn't be compared to the disciples at the Cloud Sect. Runes were engraved into the shiny bronze surface of the furnace in front of Zen, and it was clear that it was more advanced than the furnace Zen remembered from Evil Lan's cave.

There were seven or eight disciples encircling the furnace, diligently working.

Based on Zen's observation of them, it was obvious that they were divided into inner and outer disciples like the thirty-three peaks. Yet, unlike the inner and outer disciples in the thirty-three peaks who worked separately in different places, the weapon refining disciples in Quenching Peak worked harmoniously alongside one another, with varying responsibilities based on level.

Most of the tasks that the weapon refining outer disciples were responsible for were the physical chores, including lifting, fetching supplies, carrying items and running errands for the inner disciples. While the outer disciples scurried around, bringing items to the furnace area, and removing others, the inner disciples were as busy at the bronze furnace ensuring the heat from the blazing flames remained consistent by spraying fire as needed.

Zen noticed as he entered the courtyard that one of the disciples in black robes up on the patio, was crouching on his knees and had a nonstop stream of fire shooting from his hand into the opening at the top of the furnace.

merely glanced up from the tasks they were busy at when they saw Zen walking into the courtyard, but, one outer disciple stopped what he'd been doing, walked over to Zen and said, "This is the Seventeenth Court

walked through the compound, he'd seen each gate marked with a number, and the gate leading to

a top-grade mysterious weapon, they were

a top-grade mysterious weapon was still challenging for the disciples. Although their inner fire was far superior to what Zen had seen in Evil Lan's cave, the disciples' skill

the outer disciples, Zen stopped.

and down, noting he was a

Peak to forge weapons, which was a good

difficult to obtain since there were very few tasks available for outer disciples to earn a decent

him didn't look friendly, and simply asked broadly, "What's

shook his head and replied

thought highly of the mysterious weapons made by the disciples of Quenching Peak. Why would he buy any

earlier, he was quite proud of it. The over a thousand disciples of Quenching Peak were divided into more than a hundred small courts, while the ones