Compared to martial arts, alchemy demands an even more rigorous level of innate talent. This was a crucial reason why Ye Chen’s mentor had been willing to take him on as his closing disciple. Within the entire Kunlun Sect, among its one hundred thousand disciples, no one’s talent for alchemy could surpass Ye Chen’s.
Even when Ye Chen later took on disciples of his own, he could only find one, Hua Yuntian, who could barely produce a finished pill once or twice. Out of ten thousand disciples, only Hua Yuntian could manage a success rate of one or two in ten attempts; as for the others, it was ten attempts and ten failures.
This was not only true for Ye Chen’s outer disciples but also for the Alchemy Pavilion of the Kunlun Sect itself. Even those First Elders could only succeed once or twice every ten tries. Whenever Ye Chen passed by the Alchemy Pavilion, he could almost always hear the agonized cries of those Elders: "Damn it, failed again! And this was a thousand-year-old medicinal herb I risked my life to find!"
Chapter 35