After a brief glance, Liu Yu withdrew his gaze, calm and composed. The hand seals he formed never paused for a moment.
As a professional alchemist, he disliked being disturbed while refining pills and focused solely on the task at hand.
As time passed, the pale azure flames in the fire vent gradually dwindled, their glow growing weaker.
The medicinal fragrance filling the room, however, grew increasingly rich.
Almost time.
The thought flashed through Liu Yu's mind.
His powerful divine sense constantly monitored the situation inside the cauldron.
Pill condensation was already complete. Based on his years of pill-refining experience, he judged that the moment to open the cauldron had arrived.
"Rise!"
With Liu Yu's soft command, his hand seals changed, and the lid of the Azure Pill Cauldron immediately rose.
Clang.
After a faint rumble, several round pills were revealed inside.
"Hm?"
But just then, Liu Yu frowned.
The medicinal fragrance in the room rapidly faded, replaced by a scorched odor, as though something had burned.
Through his divine sense, he saw that the seven pills inside the Azure Pill Cauldron had turned completely black.
This attempt at pill refining had clearly failed.
Another failure.
Although it is only third-tier middle-grade, the Soul-Congealing Pill requires so many spirit herbs, with such complex medicinal properties, that refining it is already as difficult as refining certain third-tier supreme-grade pills.
Acknowledging his failure, Liu Yu remained expressionless, his heart untroubled. He cleaned the Azure Pill Cauldron and put it into his Storage Ring.
As an alchemy master, his current expertise allowed him to maintain a fairly high success rate when refining pills of third-tier middle-grade or below.
Once he went beyond third-tier middle-grade, his success rate plummeted. He would need to gradually improve his pill-refining expertise to maintain a high success rate.