Ever since Qin Fengming began refining pills, he had always used his own magical energy to augment the process. Other Pill Dao Masters, however, borrowed Heaven and Earth energy to empower their pill furnaces.
Qin Fengming had never paid this any mind, because the magical energy in his body had far surpassed that of cultivators of the same rank since he was young. Recklessly consuming the magic within one's body seemed inadvisable to others, but he had never felt it was especially difficult.
And the reason he could refine all manner of pills with his own magic was that he himself possessed all five types of elemental energy. Other pill masters could not do this. Without the Five Elements Dragon Physique, they had to borrow the five elemental energies from Heaven and Earth and pour them into the pill furnace.
The reason he had not received the Pill Emperor Statue's recognition should have had something to do with his not borrowing the Heaven and Earth energy of this place to refine pills.
Qin Fengming was confident that even if his guess was not entirely correct, it could not be far off.
This also easily explained why Qin Fengming's pill-refining speed far surpassed that of other cultivators: he did not need to use his own spells to mobilize the surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and carefully, cautiously merge it into the pill furnace. He only needed to act according to the refining state of the pills in the furnace and swiftly send out the magical energy within his own body.
The Heaven and Earth energy around him was not something that could gather sufficiently pure and balanced five-elemental energy at any moment. A pill master first had to use incantations to condense and purify it, and only then could it