From Cellar to Throne: Zen's Quest for Immortality
Chapter 21 Refining The Body With Fire (Part One)

As a level one weapons refiner, Evil Lan always refined weapons using very sinister refining methods,and it was those same principles he employed to create three mysterious weapons of the highestcaliber. Although Evil Lan was impressed with them all, he was proudest of the "Hell Fire Sword’ oneof the top three he produced.

Hungry as he was, Evil Lan wanted to refine something stronger than mysterious weapons. Hisgreatest ambition was to perfect some beyond that. He aspired to create spiritual weaponry!Currently, in the world, graded weapons were worth a big fortune which only proved how desirablethey were. Spiritual weaponry was much more valuable!

As one of the powerful and wealthy families in C County, the Luo Clan possessed only one topgrade mysterious weapon,” the Green Wind Rider Sword" which belonged to Zen's father, Mike Luo.The first-rate enigmatic sword had no equal in the C County, and Mike rarely used it. So, most of thetime, it was well kept in a top secret spot at the Luo Clan, which only served to make the swordappear more incomprehensible. It was a highly sought treasure. Since killing Mike, Bryson Luo hadbeen searching for the unique sword, but, his efforts had been in vain so far, with no trace or cluesto where it might be found.

Although the sword was the highest quality for mysterious weapons, it was not a spiritual weaponafter all. Every clan vied to own one, however, if an individual from an ordinary family were to obtaineven one spiritual weapon, it would be devastating not only for the person who had it but for theentire clan. If someone in the Luo clan were to get a hold of one, the weapon would have to beobediently handed over, or catastrophe would befall the whole family!

Still, some weapon refiners created some of the best treasures because of that ten percent luck.Others however, spent a lifetime following the standard rules, only to end up with nothing to showfor their work. In the long run, it all came down to fortune, and some refiners had none or ran out oftheir luck.

From that angle, luck was slightly relevant while at the same time, it might be considered the mostcritical part of the whole process.

Weapon refiners would say,” Let's hope for the best” while refining the weapons because in theirhearts, luck was important.

The tradition was the same as uttering "God bless us" which was used by some religious factions.As he thought about everything, Zen couldn't believe how his life came down to just being agamble on luck to Evil Lan. A profound unwillingness to accept the reality arose in Zen's heart, but,he laughed bitterly to himself, thinking, “There's nothing I can do to change this."

All he could do was sit there and blame himself for being too weak.

Although Zen was making fast progress in the past month, and he was able to improve from theflesh refining level to the organ refining level, it wasn't enough.00000000