"Oh? Could it be that none of the others have come out yet?" Ten days later, Qin Fengming rose and walked out of the Alchemy Room.
Yet not a single cultivator was present in the vast hall. Even Gu Feng was nowhere to be seen.
Looking toward the other Alchemy Rooms, he saw that the glow of their restrictive spells still flickered, without the slightest sign of any recent violent fluctuations. Qin Fengming could not help murmuring aloud.
In his view, the runes on the stone stele were not particularly difficult to comprehend. Even if he had never seen them before, he reckoned it would take him no more than three days to become proficient in them.
Yet everyone had now been inside their chambers for nearly twenty days, and still no one had appeared. This puzzled him greatly.
In truth, Qin Fengming was utterly mistaken. If the other cultivators were also highly proficient in artifact refining, formations, talisman crafting, and puppets, and possessed considerable mastery of Immortal Realm spirit patterns, they too would have needed little time to familiarize themselves with all the runes on the stele.
However, they were all accomplished Pill Dao practitioners. Although they were not unfamiliar with the other auxiliary arts, they were nowhere near the level of masters.
Given Ancestor Jinyan's knowledge, his decision to allow twenty days for the test was enough to show that even a Grand Pill Master could only comprehend and master runes of two or three attributes.
And since several people were to work together on the refinement, this was enough to indicate that Ancestor Jinyan did not intend for everyone to familiarize themselves with all those runes. Being able to control two types proficiently would suffice.
For each cultivator, the first two or three attributes they mastered would