Rosy Dawn Peak.
After a round of renovations, the original main hall had taken on a new appearance.
A gilded plaque bearing the words [Fire-Waiting Hall] hung overhead, and various supplies for artifact refining had been laid out inside.
Wang Xiwei sat in the hall, with his newly installed furnace beside him. It was a low-grade Qi Refining artifact called the [Flame Convergence Furnace].
Compared with the Scenery Sun Great Furnace, this furnace was considerably smaller, intended for Fetal Breath cultivators to refine artifacts.
The opening section of Essentials of Artifact Refining had already been distributed throughout the sect. News of the hall's establishment had also spread, bringing quite a few applicants at first, but none had proved suitable.
The sect had only recently finished organizing its affairs. Xiao Wen was tasked with recruiting people to gather qi, placing the work under Frostreturn Peak's supervision through a newly established [Qi-Watching Hall]. They wanted older disciples whose cultivation was unlikely to advance, and those were easy enough to find.
The position offered more cultivation resources, so many outer disciples whose cultivation could no longer advance even an inch applied. The available places were soon filled.
As for the Scripture Repository, that matter was important enough that Junior Brother Xu Xuan took charge of it personally.
He established rules under which outer disciples' merits and faults were assessed through garrison duty, labor, combat, and similar tasks. Each received a [Red Origin Token] that recorded their accumulated [Dao Merit]. Once they had saved enough, they could use it to exchange for cultivation methods and secret arts at the Scripture Repository.
The Scripture Repository had now been moved to the center of Green Luo, at the heart of the formation. Outer disciples could enter each year at the spring and autumn equinoxes to exchange