Blood-Refined Impermanence

Chen Yuan stayed at the Divine Mechanism Pavilion for half a month.

Throughout that time, the Divine Mechanism Pavilion worked at full tilt to forge weapons for him.

Wu Wanshan forged the weapon Chen Yuan wanted, while Song Xianfu led the other refiners in making the Water-Fire Heart-Protecting Mirrors.

Chen Yuan watched Wu Wanshan work for two days, but soon grew impatient and went off to cultivate.

Refining a weapon was an exceedingly tedious process, especially with the Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements. Materials went in, and the refiner painstakingly refined them through the device, his mental power penetrating directly into it. From the outside, there was little to see.

Half a month later, Song Xianfu came to tell Chen Yuan that Wu Wanshan had finished his weapon.

Chen Yuan went to Wu Wanshan's hall and found him beaming with delight. He looked less like someone who had finished Chen Yuan's weapon than someone who had finished one of his own.

"Young Master Chen! It worked!"

Wu Wanshan grew excited the moment Chen Yuan arrived.

Chen Yuan blinked. "What worked?"

"The weapon!"

"But Pavilion Master Wu, didn't you say forging it wouldn't be a problem? Was there a chance it could fail?"

Chen Yuan looked at Wu Wanshan, puzzled.

Wu Wanshan shook his head excitedly. "That's not what I mean. By my initial calculations, fusing the damaged Blood-Devouring Demon Sword with the Demon-Drinking Saber should only have produced a top-grade Heavenly Weapon.

"But while refining them, I discovered, to my surprise, that the Demon-Drinking Saber actually carried a trace of spiritual essence!

"My father and I studied Divine Weapons and Demonic Arms for decades, yet we never managed to forge a true one. This spiritual essence was precisely what we lacked!

"I never expected the damaged Blood-Devouring Demon Sword to have