A Pill Master needs not only to condense their own Pill Fire but also to guide it with their Divine Soul.
The Pill Formation Success Rate and the quality of the pills are closely related to the Pill Formula, experience, comprehension, and the quality of the medicinal ingredients.
Half of the cultivators with aspirations in Alchemy get stuck at the hurdle of condensing Pill Fire, and of the rest, nine out of ten are tormented by the hurdle of the Divine Soul until they wish they were dead.
Even those who overcome these basic hurdles often fall at the subsequent stages of accumulating Alchemy experience and understanding, ultimately becoming the lowest level of Pill Masters and merely getting by.
It is mainly because, besides one's innate abilities, the path of Alchemy requires frequent hands-on practice, personal insight, experience accumulation, and high demands on comprehension and talent in the Alchemy Dao.
