Though everyone remained silent, something else Qin Fengming had said greatly stirred their interest: he had never taken the Pill Cauldron assessment.
None of them doubted this. Any cultivator who had taken the True Ghost Realm's Pill Dao assessment would naturally know the seating arrangements in the Pill Cauldron Hall and where they should sit.
If he had never taken the Pill Cauldron assessment, he was very likely unfamiliar with the pills used in it.
Even the most experienced Pill Grandmaster needed to refine a particular pill dozens or even hundreds of times before raising the success rate to a respectable level.
This young man was unfamiliar with the pill formulas and refining rune patterns, and had never refined these pills before. The number and quality of pills he could produce in the Pill Cauldron assessment would surely be no match for those who had taken it many times.
Despite these thoughts, no one immediately agreed.
"Fellow Daoist Qin, resources worth a billion top-grade Yin Stones are truly no small sum for cultivators like us. Most fellow Daoists present probably do not carry so many items on them. How about each of us putting together items worth five hundred million?"
After several breaths of silence, Yuan Yanchun cupped his fist toward Qin Fengming and spoke.
"Items worth five hundred million?" Qin Fengming's expression shifted rapidly, his eyes turning before he quickly said, "If you cannot produce cultivation resources worth a billion, then let us end this gamble here."
Everyone could hear the trace of relief in his final words.
"Cancel the gamble? Impossible! You proposed it, and now you want to cancel it. How can you go back on your word?"
An objection rang through the hall immediately after Qin Fengming spoke.
Several voices followed in agreement.
"Hmph! When the