"This Peak Origin Pill requires eighty-seven medicinal ingredients in total, and refining and extracting them takes two hours. Mingshao tea core requires four extractions. Mingluo fruit, four extractions. Fire sun branches are needed in the greatest quantity, so I generally refine them five times," the gray-robed elder said proudly.
"If you refine it that way, the proportion of superior-quality pills probably won't reach thirty percent. Twenty percent is already the upper limit," Tang Yan said with a frown.
The gray-robed elder was inwardly startled. What Tang Yan said was indeed correct. His success rate when refining this pill could reach eighty percent, but the chance of producing a superior-quality pill was indeed below twenty percent. But how did this kid know?
Seeming to notice the doubt in the gray-robed elder's eyes, Tang Yan explained, "To refine this pill to superior quality, the mingshao tea core should be refined six times, the mingluo fruit six times, and the fire sun branches nine times. Only by refining it this way can you ensure that every pill produced is of superior quality."
This time, not only the gray-robed elder but everyone present looked at Tang Yan with derision.
A slightly plump Alchemy Master laughed loudly. "Lord Tang, considering that you know nothing about alchemy, we won't make fun of you.
"The Peak Origin Pill already requires a great many medicinal ingredients to be refined. Refining the mingshao tea core and mingluo fruit four times and the fire sun branches five times is already quite an achievement. If you want to refine them more times, there's simply no way to finish within two hours.
"By then, the other ingredients that have already been refined will have spent too long exposed to the pill flame, causing their medicinal potency to dissipate or even ruining them.