There were many cultivators in the world stuck at the Divine Martial Peak.
Yin Bancheng, Fang Xinglan, and Xiao Hong were only a small fraction of them.
Strictly speaking,
there were also independent cultivators stuck at this stage.
One reason was their cultivation manuals.
The other was the decline of their vitality.
Some elders of top-tier great sects possessed divine comprehension cultivation manuals, but their innate aptitude was limited. By the time they reached the Divine Martial Peak, they had little lifespan left.
When they tried to break through afterward, their bodies could no longer sustain the effort.
For top-tier great sects with Heavenly Beings, cultivation manuals were not a problem.
The real problem
was finding a way to reverse the decline of their vitality.
This made the Creation Pill's importance all the more apparent.
Alchemy Dao Grandmasters were scarce to begin with, and not every one of them could refine Creation Pills.
Qin Shujian had used life source to raise the Azure Alchemy Talisman to the pinnacle of the Alchemy Dao Grandmaster level, yet one of his five Creation Pills had still failed.
For other Alchemy Dao Grandmasters who had barely entered this realm,
the success rate for refining Creation Pills was actually very low.
Yet
the materials required for every attempt were no ordinary treasures.
Even a top-tier great sect could not afford the losses from two or three failures.
After all, some materials could not be bought with money alone.
The Primal Chaos Sacred Fruit, for example.
In Qin Shujian's opinion, the Heavenly Array Sect had probably turned Falling Moon Prefecture upside down to obtain those two Primal Chaos Sacred Fruits.
Perhaps they could scrape together another one or two.
But obtaining more than that was impossible.
"One step at a time. There's no rush."
Qin Shujian