They truly weren't on their guard. As far as the eleven of them were concerned, they had nothing left worth Shi Chun swindling them for, nor any reason for him to do so.
Lao Changhai asked again, "I heard the Divine Fire Domain can only be opened by powerful cultivators from the Artifact-Refining Schools working together?"
Tong Mingshan said, "Yes and no. Not just any powerful cultivator can take part in opening the Divine Fire Domain. Those who can must, at the very least, be seniors who had the good fortune to absorb divine fire when the domain last opened. Those who have survived to this day have all reached at least the Human Immortal realm."
Wu Hong asked, "How many people have to work together to open it?"
Zhu Xiangxin interjected, "Opening the Divine Fire Domain doesn't necessarily depend on the number of people. What matters is how many divine fire attributes they possess. More than half of the divine fire attributes are needed to open it. In other words, at least eighteen kinds must be gathered for it to open successfully.
"If each person has only one divine fire attribute, then at least eighteen people must work together. If someone possesses eighteen divine fire attributes himself, he alone would be enough to open it."
Tong Mingshan nodded. "Exactly. That's how it works. But in the Cultivation World today, the person who possesses the most kinds of divine fire is Situ Gu, an elder of the Heavenforging Sect, the foremost artifact-refining sect. He entered the Divine Fire Domain roughly six hundred years ago and absorbed and fused six kinds of divine fire into himself in a single visit. That gave him superb artifact-refining skills, and he is now the greatest artifact-refining grandmaster in the Cultivation World. As for anyone