Refining the Earthcore

His Soul Power had broken through—how could he not give it a try? After resting briefly, Xiao Heng opened his cauldron once more to refine pills.

It was another Eighth-grade Pill, but this time, Xiao Heng could clearly feel that the process was much easier.

Although he only produced four-colored Pill Lightning in the end, it took just thirteen days. Do not think thirteen days was a long time—this was an Eighth-grade Pill. Refining an Eighth-grade Pill in thirteen days was something most Eighth-grade Alchemists in the world likely could not accomplish.

An ordinary Eighth-grade Alchemist usually needed more than twenty days to refine a one- or two-colored Eighth-grade Pill. Some took over a month. Of course, certain alchemists had different habits—they would first calm their minds, bathe, change clothes, and so on before refining. Counting all that time, they might not even produce one Eighth-grade Pill in a month.

Moreover, Xiao Heng's success rate in pill refinement could absolutely be considered high. By his own estimate, his failure rate when refining Seventh-Rank Pills was around twenty percent. When refining Eighth-grade Pills below five-colored pill clouds, his failure rate was roughly fifty percent.

As for pills above five-colored pill clouds, the failure rate was over ninety percent. For the even higher seven- or eight-colored pill clouds, the failure rate was probably seventy to eighty percent. In other words, success was basically very difficult.

The Ascension Pill with five-colored pill clouds he had refined last time had, honestly, involved a measure of luck. Otherwise, at the time, he had not been completely confident that he could refine a pill with five-colored pill clouds.

After resting for a while, and after Zi Yan had pestered him into refining over a hundred medicinal pellets, Xiao Heng took out the Earthcore. It was time