The time that followed was spent dealing with the aftermath.
Although witnessing the two emperors refine pills had indeed brought tremendous progress and inspiration to the alchemists of the Endless Fire Domain, the fact remained that nearly half of them had fallen unconscious. Among them were quite a few alchemists who needed to fulfill the Continent of Merchants' orders in the near future.
This was no small problem. The Endless Fire Domain's current operations could not do without the Medicine Tower functioning at full capacity.
Future prospects and achievements were certainly precious, but one could not forget the necessities of everyday life.
However, neither Xiao Yan nor Yao Wan intended to use the mighty power of Heavenly Supremes to offer them advice or solve their problems. This was the sort of trouble mixed with happiness that they had to handle themselves.
After all, this had been their own choice. If they could not complete the pills they had promised on schedule, that would naturally serve as a lesson.
They would still be allowed to observe their pill refinement in the future, but how to weigh the trade-offs would be entirely up to them.
Still, this was merely the concern of a small portion of the crowd. Most people, after briefly falling unconscious, regained their composure and even made progress, allowing them to refine pills that had once required great effort with much greater ease.
That had been Yao Wan's intention.
Beyond those among the masses who had fallen unconscious, the ones who suffered most were naturally the high-grade alchemists who knew they could not absorb any more, yet stubbornly resisted the divine sense and kept themselves awake.
They needed to spend even more time digesting the tiny grains of scattered sand they had forcefully retained until the very end, sometimes