[Skill: Basic Alchemy (Major Mastery)] [Proficiency: 1/8000] [Effect: Able to refine Heavenly Deer Pills, one pill per batch, one successful batch in every two]
The instant he broke through, Li Chuan felt his understanding of many things that had once baffled him grow clearer.
Before, he had been able to roughly follow Zhou Baiyu's control of the flame, his timing, and his other techniques.
But he had never truly understood them. It had been like looking at flowers through fog.
Now, his perspective seemed to have risen to another dimension.
Problems he had struggled with in vain suddenly became easy to understand.
These things might have seemed insignificant, but they formed the foundation of his study of Alchemy.
Without them, he could never refine pills well.
But compared with all that,
the clearest, most tangible change was that he could finally refine Heavenly Deer Pills.
"With my current skill, refining four Body Strengthening Pills in one batch wouldn't be a problem. I'd only lose about one batch in ten."
"But there's no need. I have a better option now."
Li Chuan considered it.
One successful Heavenly Deer Pill earned twenty Contribution Points.
Each batch took half an hour, with a fifty-percent success rate.
That meant he could produce one pill every hour.
Twenty Contribution Points in a single hour.
When his Basic Alchemy had been at Minor Mastery, he could earn only a few Contribution Points an hour even if he gave it everything he had.
Now, his ability to earn Contribution Points had more than doubled!
"I'll try refining a Heavenly Deer Pill first!"
With that thought, Li Chuan walked over to Zhou Baiyu and cupped his fists.
"Senior Brother Zhou, I'd like to request three sets of ingredients for Heavenly Deer Pills."
Zhou Baiyu was cleaning