The Pill Alliance assessment in Lingyi City was held once every thirty years, but the cultivators who took part always numbered in the thousands.
Of course, the vast majority participated in the pill master assessment. When it came to the pill master assessment's apothecary-rank cultivators, the number sharply decreased. As for apothecaries attempting the Great Pill Master assessment, there were even fewer.
The Dao of alchemy assessment was not merely pill refining. This was especially true for the apothecary assessment, which required identifying the properties of all kinds of spirit herbs. This alone would cause nearly half the cultivators to fail.
There were thousands upon thousands of varieties of spirit herbs in the Cultivation World. To clearly identify every spirit herb and spirit fruit was a difficult task, even for cultivators with extraordinarily powerful memories. Especially when identifying spirit herbs, only a section about an inch long was cut from the herb, and the cultivator had to identify its type and medicinal effects from that. For the vast majority of cultivators, the difficulty was far too great.
The pill master assessment involved refining pills from fixed pill formulas, which was relatively simple. But for the apothecary and Great Pill Master assessments, the formulas were not fixed. One had to use random spirit-herb materials to refine a finished pill with a certain effect. And for the Great Pill Master assessment, an additional subject was added: tasting a pill to identify the spirit-herb materials used.
After passing pill appraisal, one then had to use random materials to refine a pill that contained one's own comprehension.
Although Qin Fengming would be taking part in the Great Pill Master assessment this time, he still had to participate in the earlier spirit-herb material identification and pill-material identification.
Naturally, there were specialized cultivators responsible for arranging