After looking around for a moment, Qin Fengming felt slightly puzzled as well. Although the stone platform seemed to have flashes of restrictive fluctuations, no barrier had appeared.
Refining pills in an open area was truly not a suitable place to concoct them.
After only a moment's hesitation, Qin Fengming understood. This was merely to let the alchemists familiarize themselves with the Alchemy Furnace and Earthfire. When the official refinement began, an isolating formation would naturally appear.
He casually selected an Alchemy Furnace, sat cross-legged before it, and stared at it. For a long while, he made no other move.
"Hahaha, judging by that junior's performance, he probably wants to control this special and powerful Alchemy Furnace for a long period. It looks like even that will be difficult for him." As Qin Fengming sat facing the Alchemy Furnace, mocking laughter once again rang out from around the stone platform.
Although most of the people present were not alchemists, they still had some experience.
Moreover, there were three more Fire-Inducing Beasts around this Alchemy Furnace than around the furnaces on the other two stone platforms.
To control such an Alchemy Furnace skillfully, a cultivator naturally needed special techniques and tremendous soul energy. With Qin Fengming's mere peak Aggregation cultivation, no one among the cultivators believed he could withstand controlling such a huge furnace for a long time.
Qin Fengming completely ignored the crowd's uproar and ridicule.
After staring at the Alchemy Furnace, which was a full zhang tall, for a moment, Qin Fengming formed a hand seal with his fingers. At once, nine streams of spiritual power shot out and entered the nine Fire-Inducing Beasts.
What shook him was that he had actually failed to activate the Fire-Inducing Beasts.
He secretly gritted his teeth and rapidly changed the hand seals