Everyone watched Lu Ren leave with envy. They had already expected him to receive special attention from Blazing Fire Peak, but they had never imagined Elder Tiefu would summon him so soon.
By evening, word had spread that Elder Tiefu had taken Lu Ren as his personal disciple and would personally teach him the Weapon-Forging Art from then on.
"This fellow is practically the protagonist!" Xu Yang said with a sigh.
In just five or six short years, Lu Ren had experienced rise after rise and fall after fall. He had seemed all but finished, only to reveal an exceptional talent for weapon forging, catch the attention of a Blazing Fire Peak elder, and become his personal disciple.
A personal disciple was nothing like a nominal disciple such as Xu Yang. Not only would the master keep him close and teach him personally, but he would also provide resources, and the sect would allocate additional resources to him as well.
After that day, Lu Ren never appeared at the Weapon-Forge Pavilion again.
Xu Yang paid it little mind. He took Origin-Gathering Pills to improve his cultivation while practicing the Blood Prison Heart Saber Scripture, making time during the day to put on a show at the Weapon-Forge Pavilion. In the blink of an eye, he had spent more than two months on Blazing Fire Peak.
Clang, clang...
As the final hammer blow fell, a piece of Black Iron gleaming with a dark sheen appeared on the anvil.
[Thousand-Forging Art; minor accomplishment (1/300)]
His Thousand-Forging Art had finally reached minor accomplishment. Although he had used the panel to advance his progress considerably, those two months of practice had still burned through more than a thousand taels of silver.
I can't keep spending more than I earn! Xu Yang thought.