"What happened here?" Chen Mu casually caught a disciple by the arm and asked what was going on.
"Young Master?!"
The disciple had been about to grumble, but immediately changed his tune when he recognized Chen Mu.
"Young Master, hurry and run! It's going to blow again!" the disciple warned with good intentions.
"Blow? What's going to blow again?" Chen Mu asked in confusion.
"The artifact-refining furnace!" the disciple explained.
Chen Mu then learned from the disciple that Jiang Sheng had been running into one problem after another with artifact refining lately.
Every few days, he managed to blow up another artifact-refining furnace.
Higher-level artifact refining shared much in common with pill refining. It likewise required placing a hammered artifact blank into an artifact-refining furnace and drawing in the spiritual qi of heaven and earth to perform complex processes such as Bone Forging and Soul Casting.
During this process, an enormous amount of energy accumulated inside the furnace. It was extremely unstable, and the slightest mistake would make it explode with a bang, just like a pill furnace.
Chen Mu glanced toward the Artifact Refining Pavilion. No wonder the contrast between old and new sections of the walls was so obvious. They had only just been renovated.
"All right, go find somewhere safe." Chen Mu stepped around the disciple and hurried into the Artifact Refining Pavilion.
His actions immediately drew the attention of countless disciples.
"Isn't that the Young Master? Why did he go inside?"
"He must be planning to suppress the rampaging furnace."
"It's a little dangerous, but with his strength, it certainly won't be difficult."
"Are you kidding? Who do you think he is? He's the only Thousand-World Ruler in the Great Cang World!"
Once they learned that Chen Mu had stepped in, the disciples of the