She hadn't intentionally dragged out the refining process; her only goal was to successfully create a Pill.
As a result, the entire process didn't consume much of her Spiritual Energy.
Her gaze shifted from the Pill to the Xuanwu Medicine Cauldron.
She picked it up by one of its small legs, turning it over in her hands for a moment.
Then, she murmured,
"No wonder Senior Guan Jing's eyes lit up when he saw you."
To think it could automatically raise a Pill's grade. An Alchemist had to expend immense effort and energy for every single grade increase.
The process was fraught with difficulty; the slightest misstep could lead to failure on the brink of success.
Heaven Rank was the most difficult, followed by Earth Rank, and so on.
Ascending from Xuan Tier to Earth Rank, or from Earth Rank to Heaven Rank—even raising it a single minor grade—was an incredibly difficult task.
