After becoming a second-tier lower-grade alchemist, Liu Changxu began working hard to improve his pill quality and success rate.
Although he could already refine second-tier lower-grade Purple Sun Pills, his success rate was only ten percent. The pills themselves barely qualified as acceptable, with a dull color and a relatively high concentration of pill poison.
In terms of quality, pills were divided into four grades: inferior, acceptable, fine, and superior.
Thus, Liu Changxu spent another two months or so raising his success rate to eighty percent. His pills also improved considerably in quality: out of every ten pills he attempted, one would be superior, two fine, and five acceptable.
He owed this improvement in just two months to his powerful magic power and soulforce as a Golden Core cultivator. A Foundation Establishment cultivator would need at least several years to reach the same level.
Improving one's alchemy required not only ample spirit medicinal herbs for practice, but also a powerful soul and abundant magic power.
High-level cultivators therefore had a natural advantage when learning cultivation arts. Not only did they enjoy long lifespans, but their souls and magic power were both formidable, making it easy for them to learn either alchemy or artifact refining.
Many cultivators only began studying cultivation arts after reaching core formation. Moreover, many Golden Core cultivators learned several different arts.
Cultivators like Liu Changxu, who studied multiple cultivation arts, were therefore quite common among Golden Core cultivators.
During this time, after Liu Changxu's tireless nightly tilling, Zhang Wenjun finally became pregnant, just as she had wished.
Seven months later, in the seventh month of year 3189 of the Great Tang Calendar, Wu Yunyue bore Liu Changxu another son, whom he named Liu Yi.
Liu Changxu was delighted by the birth of his youngest son, Liu Yi,