Refining pills to be consumed by Immortal Realm cultivators with materials that did not come from a fixed pill formula list was, for a Pill Dao Master, absolutely an enormous challenge.
It required the cultivator to be familiar with the properties of the materials used, the amount of medicinal energy they contained, and to rely on their own Pill Dao attainment and understanding to proportion the quantities of materials capable of forming a pill. They did not have to use up all the materials, but they could not add any materials from their own person.
What this tested was the cultivator's own innovation.
So many types of pills and pill formulas had been passed down in the Cultivation World precisely because cultivators, relying on their Pill Dao attainment, continually created new formulas and refined new pills. This was also the key to keeping the Pill Dao flourishing for ages without decline.
If there were no ability to innovate, then once existing pill formulas were lost, the Pill Dao would only grow weaker and weaker.
Qin Fengming did not panic in the slightest at this kind of trial. Sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, he waved his hand and tossed all the materials onto the ground, then, under countless watching eyes, began selecting them.
His movements were not fast. He carefully inspected every material, identifying the effects of the spirit herbs within.
As time slowly passed, more and more stone platforms gained the figures of cultivators. Clearly, those who could mount the stone platforms were naturally cultivators who met the requirements. However, the vast majority of them were challenging the pill refiner assessment. That did not require identifying spirit herbs, so as long as they paid enough material fees, they could challenge the pill refiner assessment.
Although many cultivators took part