From the accounts she had read about the cultivation method, it was said that one generally needed to have 150 chrysalises formed to trigger a breakthrough to the palace realm, 500 for the domain realm, and 800 for the soul formation realm. Yet she had managed to beat that record by a third, thanks to the quality of her chrysalises.
Quality, in this case, wasn't just dictated by the grade of the item being appraised. A greater portion of the evaluation came from the story behind the item.
For example, a gold-grade craftsman might produce twelve ascendant-grade artifacts, with perhaps even half of them being top-tier within that rank. However, when it came to the spell's assessment of quality, the highest-rated item would be the one that helped the craftsman step into the gold-grade realm in the first place, with his first top-tier ascendant-grade artifact coming in as a close second.
