One year later.
Aboard a silvery-white flying boat, Li Ping sat cross-legged, holding a pale golden staff with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Not long ago, he had finally fulfilled his promise to refine pills for the Yun Household for a year, while also guiding Yun Lingsu in alchemy during that time.
Over that year, he had refined fourteen batches of third-tier lower-grade pills, six batches of middle-grade pills, and three batches of upper-grade pills for the Yun Household, twenty-three batches in all. His success rate remained at one hundred percent.
His pill refining alone had saved the Yun Household at least a hundred thousand spirit stones.
Moreover, under his patient guidance that year, Yun Lingsu had finally succeeded in refining a batch of Qi Condensation Pills after several failures.
This also meant that her success rate with first-tier upper-grade pills had reached a respectable level.
With another decade or so of practice, she might eventually be able to attempt second-tier pills and advance to become a second-tier pill refiner.
Several factors together would enable Yun Lingsu to become a second-tier pill refiner before the age of fifty.
First, she had considerable talent for alchemy and practiced diligently every day.
Both talent and a willingness to work hard were prerequisites for becoming a pill refiner.
If she had no talent for alchemy, or if she had talent but was a lazy dog, she could never become a pill refiner.
Second, she came from the Artifact Refining Yun Household, and her grandfather was a Core Formation Late Stage cultivator who ran the household. She could obtain large quantities of practice materials from the family, and with constant hands-on experience, her alchemical skills naturally improved rapidly.
Ultimately, pill refining was an occupation that consumed tremendous resources. Without sufficient wealth, one had