The Grandmasters rested at the passage entrance, chatting and laughing together. A few even built fires and roasted meat from Rank-7 and Rank-8 demon beasts. The rule forbidding fires in the Earth Cave had been broken at this moment, but that was only natural. The ban had existed for the safety of ordinary human martial artists. Which Earth Cave martial artist would dare come here looking for death now?
They wished they could stay as far away from these human martial artists as possible. This battle had thoroughly terrified them.
The Grandmasters were not especially vigilant now. After all, the paragons had declared the battle over. They were only staying here as a precaution, and surely no one would dare defy a paragon's words.
Meanwhile, Nan Yun Yue, Lu Hao, and Zhang Weiyu surrounded Wu Kuishan. Wu Kuishan's divine weapon shortsword had not truly been a Rank-9 divine weapon.
Its heart core and brain core had only been Rank-8.
Although a section of the Heavenly Gate Tree's main trunk had been added later, it had only been a small piece. It was stronger than an ordinary Rank-8 divine weapon, yet inferior to a genuine Rank-9 divine weapon. At most, it could be called a pseudo-Rank-9 divine weapon. It would certainly defeat someone without a Rank-9 divine weapon, but against a true Rank-9 divine weapon, the outcome would be uncertain. Lu Hao did not lack materials now, so he took this opportunity to reforge Wu Kuishan's divine weapon into a genuine Rank-9 divine weapon—one forged by Wu Kuishan himself.
This would significantly increase Wu Kuishan's combat strength. Soon, under the flames of Wu Kuishan's own Mental Power, his divine weapon began to melt. Lu Hao, Nan Yun Yue, and Zhang Weiyu, meanwhile, refined the brain core and heart core of the