Chapter 61: Xun Er, Dou Zhe!
Handing the freshly refined Qi Gathering Powder to Xun Er, Xiao Yang continued, "Do you know why I said Gu He was a piece of shit?
It was entirely because the Qi Gathering Powder could guarantee a one hundred percent success rate in advancing to Dou Zhe that it was classified as a fourth-grade pill.
If one considered only the materials used, the actual difficulty of refining Qi Gathering Powder was merely at the level of a second-grade pill."
Xiao Yang curled his lips in disdain. "Yet Gu He, who called himself the Pill King and was a sixth-grade alchemist, only had a seventy percent success rate when refining a pill of this difficulty. If he wasn't a piece of shit, then what was he?
For any genuine sixth-grade alchemist, when refining a pill of this level, setting aside luck, the success rate should have been at least ninety percent. The remaining ten percent would be failures caused by unforeseen accidents due to bad luck."
Xiao Yang was not slandering him; Chapter 71 of the original novel from his previous life had stated it clearly.
So it really was no wonder Yao Lao had called him a piece of shit. He was simply telling the truth.
Xiao Yang raised two fingers. "There are two important criteria for judging a pill. First is the quality of the raw materials used, and second is the pill's effect."
"Even I spent more than half a year going from the ninth stage of Dou Qi to the tenth, and my brother spent a whole year. Even with your talent, Sister Xun Er, it would probably take around a year. (In the original novel, Xun Er did indeed take a year.)
For someone with ordinary talent, taking two or