Chapter 203: Condensation
After putting the treasured sword into the weapon refining furnace, Zen closed the furnace's door casually. Then he went to the seat, where Harrison refined the weapon a few moments earlier. It faced the weapon refining furnace's burner.
After Zen took his seat, the demonic life vitality appeared in his hand.
The demonic life vitality wrapped up around his hand within seconds.
The heavenly essence was a big deal. He let Wurth help him sell it at auction because he trusted Wurth and also honestly other than Wurth, he didn't have any better person to help him sell the heavenly essence. However, he also didn't want anybody but Wurth and himself to know that he had the heavenly essence. So owing to these conditions, Wurth seemed like the only option!
Of course, there was no way Zen would let the disciples in the Seventeenth Court before his eyes discover anything.
In order to meet the purpose, Zen had to do something about it. The demonic life vitality's colour was a deep brooding dark purple. He made the demonic life vitality wrap up around his hand with the space ring and then took out the heavenly essence from the ring.
The heavenly essence was mixed in the demonic life vitality and couldn't be spotted from outside.
After preparing everything in order, Zen pushed the demonic life vitality to shoot at the weapon refining furnace's burner, and the heavenly essence was wrapped in the demonic life vitality. He couldn't make it all perfect, so the real masters would find out.
However, Zen believed that the disciples in the Seventeenth Court couldn't perceive it.
The demonic life vitality formed a thick line and poured the heavenly essence in the weapon refining furnace one drop after another slowly and delicately.
Looking at the dark purple demonic life vitality, Harrison's eyelid flickered. He thought no wonder Zen's life vitality was heavy right now. The dark purple life vitality was actually unusual. Zen was only at grade 1 of the nature level, but his strength couldn't be belittled and was immense.
Even though the dark purple demonic life vitality was special... It was useless to refine the weapon.
Harrison saw very clearly that there was no Heavenly Law in the life vitality. In fact Zen didn't even understand the Heavenly Law. How could he use it to refine with such confidence then?
Several disciples in the Seventeenth Court all sighed in a synchronised manner expressing disappointment.
'Alas, it appears that Zen is just having fun, killing away time and wasting a brilliant sword...'
But Zen was not in the mood to care about what they thought instead just concentrated on the task in hand, that is refining.
It was true Zen hadn't mastered the Heavenly Law, so in fact, he was not refining but just watering the sword with the heavenly essence. It all came down to what level of the treasured sword could be at last.
On the contrary to what every one thought, he didn't have the confidence. After all, it was the first time for him to water the weapon with the heavenly essence. There was an extreme possibility that he might make a mysterious weapon or a waste product in the end because of his choice of the wrong method.
Once he put the demonic life vitality in the weapon refining furnace, Zen controlled the demonic life vitality to cover the treasured sword.
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The magma in the underground fire vein slowly flowed through the passage under the furnace. And through the heat conductor, it transmitted the high temperature upward.
The treasured sword was placed in the furnace and began to bake owing to the magma's heat. It needed to maintain a certain temperature during the refining process, and the temperature in the furnace was just right, not too high or low.
After the demonic life vitality covered it, the first drop of the heavenly essence was supported by the life vitality as it dripped on the treasured sword's blade.
When the first drop dripped on the sword's blade, a metal coloured riffle formed on the bright and smooth blade. The riffle didn't spread to a large range but only an inch and then stopped, leaving a strange pattern on the blade.
Soon after, a second drop of the heavenly essence dripped on the blade and left another small pattern.
More and more drops of heavenly essence fell on the blade like the pristine drops of rain leaving behind one and another pattern.
At the moment, in a continuous movement the heavenly essence from Zen's ring was transmitted into the weapon refining furnace through the channel made of the demonic life vitality.
If some famous weapon refiners saw how Zen wasted the heavenly essence in this way, they would most probably get furious.
How the immensely valuable heavenly essence was getting wasted!
Most often, the heavenly essence was used to refine the weapon at the most crucial part. As it was said, you must use the best material at the key point to make the best of everything.
If they used the heavenly essence to refine a sword, it could only be used on the blade. If the heavenly essence was not enough, they might put it exactly on the edge of the blade following the saying.
Even though some effect of the heavenly essence would be lost, the effect would be better than that of a stick in the eye.
However, Zen didn't have the knowledge to economize and micromanage. He almost let the heavenly essence drip randomly, so it not only fell on the blade but also filled the sword's handle.
But even this treasured sword couldn't absorb the heavenly essence infinitely. There was a limit, which depended on the weapon refiner's attainment.
Zen put hundreds of heavenly essence drops in the weapon refining furnace in one go. The whole treasured sword was covered with the heavenly essence. From the blade to the handle and even the top, it was absorbing all that it could. It was saturated in heavenly essence.
Till now, Zen withdrew the heavenly essence which was not absorbed from the weapon refining furnace and made it return into his space ring.
The refining process was almost over and it took a short duration of somewhere around thirty minutes.
Seeing that Zen tore the demonic life vitality, the disciples in the Seventeenth Court felt confused. Harrison too stared blankly, “Are you done with it so fast?”
According to their knowledge about how to refine a weapon, the time would be either long or short, but Zen finished it in such a short time, which was uncommon.
Judging from this point, Harrison was sure that Zen was just having fun!
Zen replied with a relieved smile, “Yes, I have finished refining the sword.”
“Zen, please open the furnace so that we can have a look at the result.” Harrison didn't harbour any ill intention but was simply curious about what Zen wanted to do.
Zen walked to the weapon refining furnace. When he uncovered the furnace lid, a silver light suddenly reflected out from the furnace.
“Buzz!”
The sharp silver light was shinning brightly from the burner and dashed to the wall in the Seventeenth Court. One layer of the wall was cut by the light unexpectedly.
When Zen stretched his hand into the furnace and took out the treasured sword, the silver light on the sword rushed to the sky. An invisible wave spread around the sword.
“Buzz...”
For a second, all people at Quenching Peak found something unusual.
On the side behind the Quenching Peak, the ground fire vein extending from Mountain converged here and formed a pool with a depth of three meters. However, there was no water but rolling magma in the pool, so it could very simply be called a fire pool.
Around the fire pool sat two weapon refiners who summoned the body fire to mix with the magma in the fire pool.
These two weapon refiners were the masters at Quenching Peak: Jerrison Yan and Merk Jiang. Both of them reached grade 7 of the nature level. They didn't have powerful strength but had great knowledge on refining weapons. Although they were a great distance from a grand master, it was more than enough to be a master at Quenching Peak.
In order to make his fire purer, the weapon refiner would choose to contemplate the fire.
There were many kinds of fire, and the magma from the underground was one of them, but the fire in it was extremely violent.
After contemplation, they could increase their fire's power manifold, but their fire would thus become furious and hard to control.
So when the two contemplated the fire pool, they would take a “chill pill” every thirty minutes which would make them have a chilly breath.
In fact, the weapon refiners often chose the cultivation method with fire attribute, and the chilly stuff was a big taboo, but the chilly breath could spread all over the body and help them control the magma's fury to calm down.
When they concentrated on contemplating the magma in the fire pool, suddenly a silver wave flew past them and quickly moved far away.
Both of their expressions changed in an instant.
“This wave... The refined weapon of someone is out of the furnace.” Jerrison displayed a cautious expression on his face, but he was unwilling to speak out his judgement.
However, Merk beside him expressed in advance, “This is an aftermath of a treasure coming out from the furnace.”
Generally, any weapon with a rank, even including the low-grade mysterious weapon would have the aftermath when it was pulled out of the furnace, only the aftermath was slight, difficult to perceive for ordinary people.
While the wave made from the spiritual weapon was more visible. Even ordinary people could sense it, but it could not reach far away.
The fire pool beside Jerrison and Merk was not far away from the Quenching Peak, but the aftermath of the spiritual weapon naturally couldn't spread all the way here.
Only the fairy weapon could have such violent aftermath when it was pulled out of the furnace.
The aftermath spread to the fire pool and farther away but didn't tend to stop. The two refiners couldn't judge this weapon's grade.
“Who can actually refine a fairy weapon at Quenching Peak?” Jerrison frowned and asked as his curiosity grew.
“Was Enio refining a fairy weapon?” Merk thought for a long moment but couldn't figure it out, so he had to guess.
Cloud Sect was not strong at weapon refining. There were nearly one million disciples in Cloud Sect, but only one thousand were willing to choose to cultivate weapon refining skills in Quenching Peak.
Only one weapon refining grand master appeared in Cloud Sect over these years, and he was one of the three famous grand masters in Burning Sky Empire, Enio Qian.
As soon as Merk expressed his thought, Jerrison disapproved, “No way. Why is Enio willing to refine weapons at Quenching Peak? He is a grand master!”
The weapon refining furnaces used by the disciples at Quenching Peak couldn't attract Enio's observant and alert eyes. The Nine-rune Earthworm Furnace Cloud Sect arranged for Enio cost a lot of money. It was a treasure not inferior to a fairy weapon in the eyes of the weapon refiners.
Enio was used to the Nine-rune Earthworm Furnace. How did he agree to use the ordinary copper furnace at Quenching Peak?
Merk replied, “I don't think it is possible, either. But Enio is the only one who can refine fairy weapons in Cloud Sect. How can anyone else even be able to refine a fairy weapon?”
“Since we can't figure out. Why not just head to the spot and have a look for ourselves?” Afterwards, Jerrison stood up and headed to Quenching Peak, and Merk followed him closely behind. Although they were weapon refiners, they had the strength at grade 7 of the nature level, so they had high speed. With that said they arrived at Quenching Peak in an instant.
In the Seventeenth Court, the treasured sword in Zen's hand had totally transformed, even though the treasured sword's shape hadn't changed. Before it was refined, it looked ordinary.
However, the whole treasured sword was now full of weird silver lights currently. If someone stared carefully, there were some runes on the blade of the sword indistinctly.
Harrison and the disciples in the Seventeenth Court were completely dumbfounded.
They opened their eyes wide and blankly stared at the treasured sword in Zen's hand. They wanted to speak but were astonished and unable to say anything, so they just wore a dull expression.