After the Demon Beast Uprising ended, Ling Pengyun learned that, over these twenty years, Ling Yunhong had deepened his understanding of alchemy. He had stabilized his success rate for several ordinary Third Rank Middle Grade pills at thirty percent, while his success rate for refining the cultivation pill Gathering Yuan Pill had risen to forty percent.
This also came as an unexpected delight to Ling Pengyun.
Third Rank Middle Grade Gathering Yuan Pills were exceedingly scarce in the outside world, and the materials required to make them were exceptionally precious. The higher Ling Yunhong's success rate in refining such pills, the greater the benefits to the clan—especially to those Golden Core cultivators within it.
Even after Ling Pengyun entered the Golden Core Late Stage, he would still have use for Third Rank Middle Grade Gathering Yuan Pills.
Still, delight was delight. Ling Pengyun nevertheless advised Ling Yunhong to pay greater heed to his cultivation.
Twenty years had passed, yet Ling Yunhong, still at the Golden Core Fourth Layer, had not progressed much. He remained some distance from the peak of the Golden Core Fourth Layer. It could be said that Yan Siyi had now surpassed him in cultivation.
Ling Yunhong also attached considerable importance to this, solemnly agreeing.
Afterward, Ling Pengyun went to see Ling Chengxin, another alchemist cultivating within this place that possessed a third-order fire vein.
Ling Chengxin differed from Ling Yunhong. Ling Yunhong primarily focused on alchemy, whereas Ling Chengxin divided his time fairly evenly between alchemy and cultivation.
Although this meant Ling Chengxin had made less progress in alchemy, he had still achieved something over the past twenty years.
At present, his success rate in refining the most basic Third Rank Low Grade Gathering Yuan Pill had reached a full forty percent. This standard was already