Even with a detailed instruction manual laid out before them, very few people could learn it.
Compared to the Orthodox Sects, the Heretical Paths placed even greater emphasis on talent!
Cultivating martial arts and raising one's realm could be ground out over time, or accelerated with pills.
But unorthodox arts such as pill refinement, artifact forging, formation patterns and restrictions, talismans, and brocade weaving could not be mastered through diligence alone.
One had to possess extraordinary talent!
The Seventh Elder knew absolutely nothing about artifact forging, yet he had relied on his own strange ideas to create such a Mysterious-grade Low-rank artifact. He truly was a rare genius!
Xiao Minghuang gathered her thoughts and looked at the pill furnace again. Now that she knew the furnace's details, her goal had changed as well.
Her original plan had been to borrow the pill furnace back to the Princess Mansion, give it to Ye Ruoshui, then return it to the Imperial Palace after receiving compensation.
But since she could not borrow it away, she could only bring Ye Ruoshui here and have her refine pills in this place.
She was not worried that the Seventh Elder would harm Ye Ruoshui.
Rather, if the Seventh Elder witnessed Ye Ruoshui's unparalleled talent in pill refinement, he might even kneel on the spot and ask to become her disciple.
Meanwhile.
The Seventh Elder watched Xiao Minghuang stare blankly at the pill furnace, and gradually grew impatient. He said anxiously:
"Little girl, are you done looking? Hand over the spirit herbs already. Once this batch is refined, I can give you two pills. Don't delay this old man's pill refinement!"
At those words, Xiao Minghuang's eyes shifted as she smiled.
"I heard that the Seventh Elder has ruined several batches of pills recently. Is that true?"