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.

in white robes, 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 of weapon refining. Strangers, are asked

compound, he'd seen each gate

today was a top-grade mysterious weapon, they were understandably more tense and taking precautions to

still challenging for the disciples. Although their inner fire was far superior to what Zen had seen in Evil Lan's

of the outer disciples,

looking Zen up and down, noting he was a

thirty-three peaks, came to Quenching Peak to forge weapons, which was a good thing for

money at hand, let alone points which were difficult to obtain since there were very few tasks available for

result, the outer disciple coming to him didn't look friendly, and simply asked broadly, "What's

his head and replied casually,

of the mysterious weapons made by the disciples of

mysterious weapon! You can't afford what it'll cost, I'm warning you." His words were barely out as he waved impatiently and began to drive him out of the court. When referring to the top-grade mysterious weapon 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 able to produce top-grade mysterious weapons were quite rare. Therefore, if their refining today succeeded, it would be a great achievement for them and all the disciples of