Through the Pain

Alex continued making more and more pills, without any mistakes, but he was still only making 54 pills an hour.

By the time 4 hours had passed he had made exactly 216 pills. If this continued, with about 7 more hours of this remaining, he would certainly fail without a doubt.

He need to do something else, he needed to improve the process this late into the game.

But how? Should he really make 12 pills? But then what about the mental fatigue he would have to suffer?

Should he even be caring about that at this point? 

Alex finished making another set of pills and put them in the formation to the side to prove that they were indeed all above 50% in harmony.

After they were all tested, he cleaned the 3 cauldrons with his Qi and started heating them up again.

Suddenly, he paused as a thought came to him. He was wasting about 6 minutes an hour doing just this. This which had nothing to do with making pills was taking up 10% of his time.