"Have you all chosen your cultivation techniques?"
"Yes, we have. Let's go. Didn't you want to watch me refine pills? Come along."
"Right, right, right. That's what matters. Let's hurry."
What the Branch Alliance Leader and the others most looked forward to was seeing how Chen Changan refined Grade Four Pills. More importantly, they wanted to see whether he was just as impressive when refining pills of that grade.
"Is this your first time working with Grade Four Pills?"
"Yes, my first time. I never had a chance to encounter Grade Four Pills before."
"Then do you really think you have a seventy percent chance of success?"
"More or less. Although I haven't refined them yet, after reading the pill formula, I rehearsed it quite a few times in my mind. It shouldn't be much of a problem."
Rehearsing beforehand?
He could rehearse it in his mind without any materials at all?
"Wait, you can actually do that?"
"Then if that works, wouldn't it save a lot of materials? Rehearse first, then start refining once you've practiced enough. Wouldn't that improve the success rate quite a bit?"
"You... never rehearse before refining pills?"
"No. We've never thought about it."
"Uh... all right. Now you know. Rehearsing is important, but what really matters is the actual execution."
"Otherwise, no matter how well you rehearse, it's all for nothing if you make a mistake when actually doing it."
"We know that, but rehearsing is still better than jumping straight in without any practice."
They talked as they walked, and soon returned to Chen Changan's residence.
"You're going to refine pills right here?"
"It's just pill refinement. There's no need for some grand ceremony, is there? Whenever and wherever you feel like refining pills, you can do it."
"All right, just stand to