Chapter 447: Changing Approach

Growl!

Yi Chen’s stomach growled in protest, but he paid no attention to his hunger, focusing instead on reading the contents of the system panel in front of his eyes.

"24%... and again a partial success..."

Yi Chen muttered while looking at his pill’s remark with a frown evident on his face. The next moment, his eyes fell on the ten pills he had made, which, unlike the previously darkish green colour, were now pale green instead.

"Its colour is much lighter than before, so I was expecting it to be a success this time..." he muttered with a bitter expression.

’Could it be that I lowered the temperature too much? Yeah, that must be it! The required temperature must be in between the two temperature ranges!’

With this realisation, he once again started refining the next batch of pills, not paying attention to his stomach’s incessant protests.

’I’ll skip cultivating and swordsmanship practice today, for I can feel it...this time...this time it will definitely be a success!’

Yi Chen thought with glistening eyes and devoted the next couple of hours to refining the pills.

Two and a half hours later, the result was right in front of his eyes.

"This... just why..."

He muttered, exhaustion evident in his eyes. It was once again only a partial success, and moreover, the efficacy increase was barely anything.

"Do I have no choice but to keep spamming pills in the hope that I’ll be able to make it reach 30%?" Yi Chen thought with a bitter expression, realising that even after attending Elder Ru Qi’s class today, he was still unable to refine a successful pill.

[Remark: A partial success with 24.7% efficacy (Regenerate: 10,000 EXP)]

Glancing at the pill’s efficacy, he let out another snort and decided to give up for today.

"Whatever, I’ll just contact Elder Ru Qi tomorrow and ask for her guidance." He muttered in a disappointed manner, for part of him wanted to solve the problem himself.

Letting out another sigh, he thought to himself, ’It’s a pity that it’s already half past midnight and it would be impolite to contact her using the Sound Transmission Stone right now...’

GROWWWWL!

"Alright, alright, I’m going to eat now, you understand?" Yi Chen rolled his eyes in annoyance, hearing his stomach grumbling for the nth time as he soon took out a large skewer of meat from inside his storage ring.

The dining hall was already closed, and he was too exhausted to use his fire qi to cook the meat. He glanced towards his cauldron underneath which the fire lid was completely closed, giving out only a point-sized light from the orifice in the lid’s centre.

’Yeah, let’s do that then...’

Thinking of something, he soon placed the cauldron inside his storage ring and rolled open the fire lid as a fiery flame rose in front of his eyes.

"Yep, that’s good enough for meat roasting." Nodding to himself, he placed the skewer on top of the fire as the savoury aroma of meat started spreading across the room, and he patiently waited for it to be fully cooked.

What Yi Chen didn’t know was that, unintentionally, he had just become the very first disciple in the Heavenly Azure Dragon Sect’s thousand-year history who had the gall to roast a meat skewer on top of the sect’s pill refining flame.

Totally unaware of the fact that he had just created a name for himself in history, Yi Chen whistled while brooding over the fact that he had failed to create a successful pill even today.

Staring right into the flames, he tried to recall everything that he had learnt today during lecture, with a bitter smile evident on his face.

However, just then his expression froze.

"Wait a minute..."

Yi Chen suddenly remembered that Elder Ru Qi was using her spiritual energy not only to protect the processed ingredients from external contamination but also to monitor the inside of her cauldron with her spiritual sense.

"She had said that she was constantly monitoring the contents inside to adjust the flame as required, right?"

Yi Chen muttered in thought with widened eyes.

At that time, she had only limited this approach to the two immortal pills and had just used her intuition for creating the mortal pill, so Yi Chen too didn’t immediately think of using his spiritual energy for refining the Sleeping Crane Pill, which was just a mortal pill.

’...but since I already have a large quantity of spiritual energy, unlike many unranked pill refiners, why shouldn’t I use it even if it’s just for refining a mortal pill?’

"Yes... I’ll do exactly that then."

Yi Chen was about to stand up and start refining the next batch all over again, but just then the smell of completely cooked meat pervaded his nose.

"After having my dinner, that is..."

He muttered with a soft chuckle and devoured the large block of juicy meat as ravenously as possible.

With that done, he prepared all the ingredients again, processed them into the required concoctions, and finally put them into his cauldron as before.

However, unlike last time, his spiritual energy was fully concentrated towards the insides of the cauldron, and using his spiritual sense, he was constantly monitoring the changes that were taking place in real time.

Something he wasn’t able to do with just his naked eyes alone.

’That portion...it seems to be burning!’

Quickly noticing something, he lowered the flame’s intensity.

’Wait, that portion is much paler than its surroundings...’

He raised the flame slightly.

’It has started turning black again!’

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He kept adjusting the flame’s intensity as many times as required while assessing the obvious changes he could find using his spiritual energy.

It seemed to be working, for the entire solution had started taking a greenish colour which was neither too pale nor too dark like in his last attempts.

Noticing these changes, excitement and anticipation naturally took root in Yi Chen’s heart, and as soon as the refinement process was complete, he stared right inside the cauldron and checked the status panel instead of shaping the precipitate into pills.

===== STATUS =====

Name: Sleeping Crane Pill’s Precipitate (Success)

Type: Has Sleep-Inducing effect

Rank: Basic Unranked Pill’s Precipitate

Remark: Has reached an efficacy of 33%. However, don’t let it get to your head. [Regenerate: 10,000 EXP]

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"I...I did it!" Yi Chen exclaimed while pumping his fists up in the air the very next instant.

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