The forty-seven cultivators participating in this pill dao assessment were the earliest to finish refining among everyone in the Pill Cauldron Hall. Since the assessment had a time limit, its duration was three months.
Those who refined pills were naturally beaming with joy, while the cultivators who had failed could not help but feel dejected.
Normally, in every Nine Ruins Mountain pill dao assessment, the participants were the absolute protagonists. Once they completed the assessment, they would inevitably receive congratulations from numerous Lineages and sect cultivators. This time, however, the attention was clearly far lower than before.
Everyone left the pill platforms without any clamor. After making brief preparations, they immediately focused on the thirty-six pill platforms where the cultivators participating in the pill-refining competition were working.
The agreed duration was six months, which showed just how difficult this competition would be.
Six months was not the time needed for a single batch of pills. If they were refining pills for Ghost Master cultivators, they could refine five or six batches. Even if they were refining Ghost Master pills, there was enough time for two or three batches.
As time passed, one person after another completed a batch of pills, but others failed. Terrifying booms erupted from the pill platforms, and after the restrictions settled down, they continued refining.
Time continued to pass. The cultivators who had accepted pill-refining commissions successively finished their work and descended from the pill platforms.
Everyone returned to the central stone platform and sat back down in the stone chairs where they had originally been seated. They did not disturb the six people—Liu Pu among them—who had their eyes closed, instead focusing their minds on the pill platforms of the competitors.
More and more cultivators gathered in the hall. The Old Ancestors of influential Lineages