As the person in charge of the Linghan Merchant Alliance branch, Hong Zhengdao naturally would not do anything detrimental to the Linghan Merchant Alliance. Yet at this moment, he was secretly delighted, greatly hoping that Qin Fengming's alchemy skills were poor enough that he would be unable to complete the refinement.
That way, he could pocket those four Gangyan Sand Crystals. As for having the young man join the Linghan Merchant Alliance, there would naturally still be room for discussion.
So long as he obtained those four incomparably precious refining materials, Hong Zhengdao would have more than enough to earn the Linghan Merchant Alliance's recognition for a great accomplishment. Faced with such a fat piece of meat delivered right to his mouth, he naturally had no intention of spitting it back out.
Everyone harbored their own thoughts. No one spoke again, merely waiting in silence for the arrival of the limited time Hong Zhengdao had mentioned.
"How is that possible? With Fellow Daoist Qin's attainments in alchemy, he actually hasn't managed to refine even one batch of pills in two months?"
Time passed quickly, and two months finally arrived. Yet atop the stone platform where Qin Fengming was, crimson light still blazed, while scorching fire-elemental energy continued to permeate the surroundings, as though nothing had changed from beginning to end.
Watching the crimson radiance surge over the stone platform, Huang Qizhi finally voiced his astonishment.
Generally speaking, the time required to refine pills was not fixed.
Some pills were exceedingly difficult to refine. They required the insertion of many spell incantations and runes, which had to be added at different times and as different materials were introduced. Naturally, this took longer.
Yet according to everyone's understanding, even if a pill for a Divine Connection cultivator was extremely difficult to refine,