Upon receiving the sect leader's decree, the Weapon Forging Hall dared not delay. It began mobilizing high-ranking Artifact Smiths to work day and night forging a new type of Bone-Observing Mirror!
Shen Mo did not hoard the method either, spreading the forging technique throughout the large and small factions of Five Dragon Mountain. This included sects renting territory, such as Azure Firmament Cave, as well as lineages, powerful Rogue Cultivators, and nonhuman factions.
After all, these "tenants" were on Five Dragon Mountain. If they bred a seventh-rank Great Heavenly Demon, the Crimson Flame Sect would also be affected. Thus, Shen Mo firmly required them to forge mirrors to identify hosts of demonic souls. Those who directly refused or paid lip service while acting otherwise would not have their leases renewed by the Crimson Flame Sect once they expired. They would be driven from Five Dragon Mountain then, lest any hidden danger be left behind.
As long as the improved Bone-Observing Mirror reached Mystic-Grade Peak, it could detect hosts of demonic souls. It consumed few spirit-material resources, and compared with the immense benefits gained on Five Dragon Mountain, it was hardly worth mentioning. Thus, most of the leasing factions obediently complied.
Only certain cultivation factions guarded by Formless Patriarchs believed that the Crimson Flame Sect was meddling in their internal affairs. They clearly stated that they would not abide by this rule and would withdraw from Five Dragon Mountain themselves once their leases ended.
Besides these leasing factions, there was also a large group of cultivation factions sheltering beneath Shen Mo's wings. Nominally independent, they were in truth vassals of the Crimson Flame Sect. They mainly came from two places: the Heaven-Patrolling Daoist Temple of Great Yu Mountain and the Candle Dragon Mountain Range.
Like the Crimson Flame Sect, the Heaven-Patrolling