This was already Qin Fengming's tenth attempt at refining the Soul Gathering Heaven Soul Pill. He had never truly completed it in the previous nine attempts. Every time, he had found it impossible to continue before reaching the midpoint.
Looking at the three turbid-colored pills in his hand, Qin Fengming's face was filled with delight.
These three pills were still not finished pills, but waste pills.
Even so, they had filled Qin Fengming's heart with joy. The appearance of three waste pills proved that he had indeed found the correct method for refining the Soul Gathering Heaven Soul Pill.
There was nothing wrong with the Soul Gathering Heaven Soul Pill formula. However, it contained many implicit conditions and techniques that were not noted in the formulas. During refinement, it also required the support of Five Elements Vital Energy.
Refining a pure soul pill actually required the support of an immense amount of Heaven and Earth Five Elements Vital Energy. That was inherently strange.
Yet it truly existed. Qin Fengming had only derived it after deep consideration and learning from the lessons of several failures.
He had meticulously deduced hundreds of refining rune patterns, finally finding the energy aura hidden amid the changes in those rune patterns. That energy did not need to be fused into the medicinal herbs.
Once fused in, it would gather and eventually explode with a thunderous roar.
But that energy was not Heaven and Earth Origin Energy at all. Rather, it had evolved from the rune patterns themselves. It was extraordinarily well hidden; even divine sense could hardly detect it.
Only by deducing the rune patterns bit by bit had he finally grasped what was amiss within them.
Ten refinement attempts had already consumed five entire sets of materials. Now, Qin Fengming had only two complete