A ten-percent chance meant that, when purifying ten high-grade pills, through a stroke of luck and coincidence, only one would succeed. To Lin Xuan, that was far too few.
After thinking it over carefully, purifying mid-grade pills was actually more worthwhile.
Lin Xuan was not the sort to stubbornly cling to a dead principle. At critical moments, he naturally knew how to adapt. In any case, he had more than enough Waste Pills of his own. Even if he cultivated by taking mid-grade pills, it would only be, relatively speaking, a tiny bit slower.
As for the number of pills, there was no need to consider it at all. Supporting his cultivation all the way to the Dongxuan Realm would be more than enough.
Of course, he could still occasionally try to purify some high-grade pills.
But they would not be used for taking medicine and meditating. As the saying went, good steel had to be used on the blade's edge. These pills that increased magical power would likewise have some use when breaking through bottlenecks.
If his luck was good and he purified high-grade pills, he would store them away first.
With the basic train of thought settled, Lin Xuan completely entered bitter cultivation in the time that followed.
Every day, aside from purifying pills, taking medicine, and meditating, he had scarcely any time left. Even then, he did not stay idle. He used the Ten Thousand Soul Tower together with Purple Sun Grass to hasten the maturation of the Blood Fire Ants. Unlike the Jade Luo Bees, the individual combat strength of this strange wild insect was not worth mentioning; what they relied on was their incomparably vast numbers. Relatively speaking, they were also easier to hasten into maturity, and under Lin Xuan's meticulous feeding, their numbers increased