At Qin Shujian's request,
Zhao Heng arranged a fairly spacious courtyard for him and ordered that no one disturb him without permission.
As for why Qin Shujian wanted this,
Zhao Heng had no idea himself.
But as far as he could guess,
Qin Shujian was probably making preparations to deal with the evil fiends inside the seal.
After all—
Eastjoy Fortress was different from the other fortresses. It had not just one evil fiend sealed inside it, but three.
Over the next day,
Heavenly thunder rumbled over Eastjoy Fortress.
Bolts of lightning struck from time to time, rattling the other soldiers stationed there.
"Commander Zhao, what's happening?"
A general of Eastjoy Fortress stared at the lightning striking incessantly and the dark clouds covering a third of the fortress, shock written across his face.
Those falling bolts of lightning—
every one of them radiated enough power to make cultivators at the true martial peak tremble inwardly.
"Heavenly thunder tempering the body... Sect Master Qin must be forging a Spirit Weapon!" Zhao Heng shook his head and said, "Yesterday, Sect Master Qin asked me for some Sixth-Tier Materials. They must be for forging Spirit Weapons."
He had not forgotten that, besides being an Array Dao Grandmaster, Qin Shujian
was also a Forging Master.
"Forging Spirit Weapons!"
Several people sucked in sharp breaths.
Hearing this, many of them were deeply shaken.
Any Spirit Weapon
was worth an immeasurable amount in a True Domain.
Apart from sects with sufficiently deep foundations, not every sect possessed a Spirit Weapon.
As for forging Spirit Weapons,
they had only heard of it before and had never actually witnessed it.
After all—
forget Forging Masters and Forging Grandmasters; even High-Grade Forge Masters were pitifully scarce in Northcloud Prefecture.
Inside a courtyard,
as the final bolt of heavenly thunder