Hongzhen Pill Sovereign, Yi Lanyi, and the others did not linger in the underground space. Instead, they went straight to the cave abode where the surveillance formation was controlled.
The party of six had barely entered the secluded cave abode when an astonished cry reached their ears. "Come look! Why is this man's pill-refining method so different?"
At the cry, the dozen or so cultivators in the chamber rose and looked toward its source.
There were over a dozen cultivators in this chamber, each watching a crystal screen. Clear images appeared on the screens, showing alchemy platforms occupied by cultivators.
Yi Lanyi and the others looked toward the voice and saw an utterly inconceivable sight.
In the image, Qin Fengming, who had only just sat down before the Alchemy Furnace to test and familiarize himself with its workings, was already placing spiritual herbs into it one after another without pause.
What was going on? Even with their exceptionally high Pill Dao attainment, they found this baffling.
Most of the spiritual herbs used in this Pill Dao trial were less than a thousand years old, materials for refining pills for the Ghost King or Ghost Master stage. Yet there were hundreds of them, encompassing numerous varieties with a jumble of medicinal effects.
Any cultivator who saw them would first carefully inspect and sort the various spiritual materials. Then they would painstakingly identify each material's exact properties and medicinal effects, consider what pills might be refined, and finally devise a formula. Only then would they fire up the furnace.
Yet in the time it had taken the six of them to leave the alchemy hall and reach the surveillance cave abode, Qin Fengming had already begun operating the Alchemy Furnace and refining pills.
Even Hongzhen Pill Sovereign's face showed profound surprise and