``` [Year 311, you refined pills for a hundred and fifty years in one stretch, producing dozens of Ageless Golden Cores.
You did not know whether it was because your state of mind was steady or because your pill-refining skills had improved again.
This time, your success rate actually rose to forty-five percent.
Such a high success rate not only greatly increased your pill-refining efficiency, but also saved you a great deal of materials.
Correspondingly, the rate at which you earned points increased by another fifty percent.
However, these years of continuous seclusion left you feeling rather exhausted.
You decided to rest for a while before continuing to refine Ageless Golden Cores.]
[Year 356, you readjusted your condition and fired up your furnace to refine pills again.]
[Year 543, you spent nearly two hundred years in seclusion in one stretch, producing nearly a hundred Ageless Golden Cores.
This time, your pill-refining success rate actually reached fifty percent.
However, during your most recent attempts, you vaguely sensed a bottleneck.
It would probably be quite difficult to raise your success rate any further.
Fortunately, you did not intend to continue refining Ageless Golden Cores anyway.
You had already saved enough points to try opening the Abyssal Gate.]
[Year 568, after bringing yourself to peak condition, you prepared to undergo a Golden Immortal elder's assessment.
Unfortunately, however, the Golden Immortal elders had all been in seclusion lately, so you could only keep waiting.]
[Year 637, a Golden Immortal elder finally found the time to come and assess you.
To your surprise, the assessment actually consisted of fighting this Golden Immortal elder.
Although you were already at the Heavenly Immortal Ninth Layer, you had yet to begin comprehending the laws of the Great Dao.
In a single exchange, you were crushed by the Golden