Standard Success Rate

Standard Success Rate

After returning to Cloud Frost City, Yang Shan wasted no time renting an alchemy room at the local Alchemist Guild for 10 Spirit Stones.

A Cauldron had been placed inside the alchemy room, though it was nothing high-end.

Besides, the pill furnaces currently available for purchase were not much better.

Low-grade Cauldrons did not provide much of a boost to alchemy, so he saved himself some money.

Next, Yang Shan brought out the mutated magic core of the Fire Cloud Leopard.

As Dou Qi poured into it, flames surged upward.

Its scorching heat was far beyond what Dou Zhe-level Players could match. Even Fire Attribute Da Dou Shi did not possess flames this powerful.

Although Tian Yao Company had greatly relaxed the requirements for becoming an Alchemist, to the point that one did not even need to cultivate a Fire Attribute technique,

the intensity of one's flames still had a major impact on alchemy.

Players without the Fire Attribute had a much lower alchemy success rate than Fire Attribute Players.

Therefore, the best solution was to seek out another source of flame.

All the commotion Yang Shan had caused in Cloud Frost City had merely been incidental.

Only this Cloud Leopard Flame was something Yang Shan absolutely had to obtain! With the Cloud Leopard Flame, his alchemy success rate would increase dramatically.

The higher the success rate, the more money he would make! That was why not even Nalan Yanran could have made Yang Shan give up on killing the Fire Cloud Leopard!

The Opportunity Realm from before had left Yang Shan with plenty of ingredients for Gathering Yuan Pills and Body Tempering Pills.

Yang Shan had a total of seven second-tier Metal Attribute magic cores on hand.

So, he would not need to worry about ingredients for the time being.

He would start with a Gathering Yuan Pill to warm up! The first step was extraction!

Although Yang Shan was currently only a Second Grade Alchemist, he had the experience of a Fifth Grade High-Level Alchemist.

To Yang Shan, the embedded minigames for refining Second-Grade Medicinal Pills were child's play.

As long as he did not run into something as mentality-destroying as Iron Mountain Lean, Strap-Slide Shoulder, there was no chance of anything going wrong.

Not only did the extraction pass perfectly, the subsequent "fusion" and "Nurturing" stages also met every requirement flawlessly!

Twelve freshly refined Gathering Yuan Pills, still radiating heat, emerged from the furnace!

It had to be said that Tian Yao Company really knew how to reduce the burden on Players.

In the original novel, many medicinal pills had to be refined one at a time.

But in the game, one set of ingredients could produce one batch.

Then, depending on the type and effect of the medicinal pill, a batch could yield as few as three pills or as many as twelve.

For example, a batch of Body Tempering Pills only produced three pills.

Yang Shan stored the twelve Gathering Yuan Pills in a porcelain bottle, secretly delighted.

At this stage, even Players who had planned from the start to pursue a secondary profession and had guild resources supporting them had probably only just become First Grade Alchemists.

There was a good chance they had not even acquired a first-grade pill formula yet.

Meanwhile, he was already a Second Grade Alchemist with two second-grade pill formulas in hand. He could absolutely rule this barren medicinal pill market!

Yang Shan steadied his breathing and continued refining!

Ding! Congratulations, Player, on successfully refining one batch of Gathering Yuan Pills (12 pills). You have gained 5 Alchemy Experience and 10 Character Experience.

Ding! Congratulations, Player, on successfully refining one batch of Gathering Yuan Pills (12 pills). You have gained 5 Alchemy Experience and 10 Character Experience.

Grinding monsters could level one up.

But that did not mean grinding monsters was the only way to level up.

Weapon forging, alchemy, and even cultivating techniques and Dou Skills were all forms of self-improvement.

In Battle Through the Heavens, that manifested as increased character experience.

Thus, many Players with secondary professions could also level up continuously through long-term pill refining and weapon forging.

It was simply slower.

Twenty points of experience was actually quite a lot.

Refine 250 batches, and he would level up!

It might be slow, but it was better than nothing.

He had warmed up enough. Time for the main course!

Yang Shan brought up the formula for the Body Tempering Pill and tossed Bauhinia Vine into the Cauldron.

Then came a second-tier Metal Attribute magic core, followed by a stalk of Bai Ye Hong.

Three stages, three minigames.

If You're a Man, Descend 300 Floors: descend ten floors, pass! Tetris: clear twenty rows, pass!

The dance game "Third Aunt Touches Men": 92% accuracy, pass! Yang Shan extinguished the flames and smiled confidently. "Heh, easy."

Ding! Body Tempering Pill refinement failed.

Yang Shan: "..."

Tian Yao Company would not really be so generous as to let Players successfully refine medicinal pills just by clearing the minigames.

Every pill formula description contained a line of data called "standard success rate."

In other words, after clearing the minigames, whether the pill was successfully formed still depended on luck based on the "standard success rate."

Of course, there were quite a few ways to improve the standard success rate.

For example, raising one's Alchemist grade.

The standard success rate for the Body Tempering Pill was 20%.

Meanwhile, the Cloud Leopard Flame granted a 50% boost for Second-Grade Medicinal Pills, calculated based on the standard success rate.

Therefore, Yang Shan's current success rate for refining Body Tempering Pills was 30%. (20% × 150%)

Yang Shan composed himself.

"It's fine. The success rate is only this high. I'll just do it again!"

Ding! Body Tempering Pill refinement failed.

Ding! Body Tempering Pill refinement failed.

Ding! Body Tempering Pill refinement failed.

"Damn it!"

Yang Shan's eyelids twitched incessantly.

He recalled an unbearable memory from his previous life.

Back then, he had been a proper Tier-4 Alchemist.

He had refined a relatively difficult third-grade medicinal pill with a 30% success rate.

Yet for some reason, whether it was because it had just become his zodiac year or something else, he failed twenty times in a row!

It had nearly driven Yang Shan numb.

"Nüwa, don't screw with me. I'll give you an extremely satisfied rating on the survey later, okay?"

Once again, he flawlessly cleared all three minigames.

Ding! Congratulations, Player, on successfully refining one batch of Body Tempering Pills (3 pills). You have gained 50 Alchemy Experience and 100 Character Experience.

Yang Shan was overjoyed.

So he really had to sweet-talk the AI to get good luck.

The Body Tempering Pill was a powerful medicinal pill with only a 20% standard success rate. Completing a batch gave ten times the experience of Gathering Yuan Pills! Again!

Ding! Body Tempering Pill refinement failed.

"I refuse to believe this nonsense today!"

Again!

Ding! Body Tempering Pill refinement failed.

"Fuck!"

Yang Shan sprang up and kicked the Cauldron away.

What kind of gambling was legal?

Answer: refining pills in Battle Through the Heavens!

He, Yang Shan, had been sailing smoothly ever since his rebirth. The forums even called him the number one Player in Battle Through the Heavens.

Yet in the end, a damned alchemy success rate had shattered his mental defenses!

After great difficulty, Yang Shan got his emotions under control and threw himself back into his great alchemy endeavor.

He had already used up all the second-tier Metal Attribute magic cores required for Body Tempering Pills, so Yang Shan could only continue refining Gathering Yuan Pills.

Fortunately, the standard success rate for Gathering Yuan Pills was 80%. With the Cloud Leopard Flame, it soared to 120%. (80% × 150%)

As long as Yang Shan cleared the three minigames, he would not fail the refinement.

This pill-refining session lasted a full two days of game time.

He used up 50 points of the Cloud Leopard Flame's source energy.

Yang Shan obtained a total of thirty-six batches of Gathering Yuan Pills, 432 pills in all.

As well as three Body Tempering Pills.

He also gained 1,320 experience points and 330 Alchemist Experience. A Second Grade Alchemist needed 3,000 points to advance to the third grade.

Yang Shan's experience bar, which had originally been only one-third full, was now past the halfway mark. He was not far from becoming a Six-Star Dou Shi.

It had been an extremely fruitful haul.

Yang Shan rubbed his slightly swollen temples.

He popped a Gathering Yuan Pill into his mouth, then logged off.

Eating, resting, exercising, taking a nap, then eating again. Yang Shan packed his eight hours offline full.

Eight days had passed since the game launched, and Yang Shan had been online at high intensity the entire time.

Now that the initial stage of exploration had basically stabilized,

Yang Shan needed some time to adjust himself.

For example, he could scroll Doukuai for videos of alluring women.

Yang Shan's thoughts were simple.

He watched girls only to put himself in a good mood.

But the more he watched, the more worked up he became! Yang Shan even saw a beauty—whether naturally endowed or surgically enhanced, he could not tell—post a suggestive Medusa cosplay video.

He watched carefully for five seconds before scrolling away.

Her hips were not wide enough, her waist was not slim enough, her bust was not perky enough, and her legs were not long enough.

Pathetic!

She was not one ten-thousandth as good as the queen in the game!

Yang Shan's willpower was still very strong.

Women would only affect the speed at which he made money!

Once he had the money in hand, he would not have to fear women affecting him!

He tossed his phone aside.

Time to log in and make money!