They had to give the respect that was due.
But they also had to fight for the permissions they deserved.
Tushan's First Elder also knew when to stop while she was ahead.
So, she did not push her luck by demanding any additional conditions. Instead, she agreed to Heart Demon Thunder Emperor's proposal that they observe. Of course, all of this rested on whether Lu Yuan's pill cauldron could withstand the corresponding strain. If Lu Yuan's pill cauldron could only endure the Divine Sense of a single Heavenly Sovereign, Heart Demon Thunder Emperor could only accept reality. After all, without enough Divine Sense, the shaping process could not be completed, making division impossible.
Fortunately, the pill cauldron was sturdy enough.
Perhaps it could not withstand pills of excessively high grade.
Such as Emperor Grade Pills.
Or the Heavenly Sovereign-level pills Xiao Yan refined in his later years, the kind that increased an Earth Supreme's chances of breaking through to Heavenly Sovereign.
If pills of that grade were placed inside it,
the cauldron would definitely explode.
At the end of the day, deficiencies in raw numerical strength could not be made up through technique alone. Those who could make up for them were no ordinary people, and the techniques involved were no ordinary techniques either. Take the Spirit Ascension Method pioneered by Yao Lao, or the pill refinement without a pill cauldron that Xiao Yan displayed at the Alchemist Convention—he relied entirely on a pill cauldron forcibly formed from Dou Qi.
In short, technique could only compensate for part of it.
Raw strength was what mattered most.
Fortunately, the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill was not of an especially high grade. Besides, while some of the supplementary materials were of considerable quality—such as the portion of blood from some Saint Grade