After transmigrating, I cultivated immortality by smelling the scent.

Chapter 91: Quiet Alchemy Within the Sect, Four Crises Erupt Outside.

After Xie Dongyun explained the details of refining the Guiyuan Pill to everyone, they were all amazed by Xie Dongyun's unfathomable alchemy skills.

Ye Xiaobai also made considerable gains. However, Xie Dongyun's Gathering Yuan Pill was only of the upper grade. Ye Xiaobai took the opportunity to inquire about the refining of top-grade pills.

Seeing a group of people surrounding Xie Dongyun, asking him all sorts of questions, Ye Xiaobai also struggled to squeeze into the crowd and respectfully asked, "Senior Brother Xie, do you know how to refine a top-grade Gathering Yuan Pill?"

Upon hearing Ye Xiaobai's question, everyone immediately became hostile towards him, feeling that he was there to cause trouble. They all knew that top-grade pills could only be refined after mastering alchemy techniques.

"Oh? Who are you?" Xie Dongyun asked Ye Xiaobai with a puzzled look.

"Thank you, Senior Brother. My name is Ye Xiaobai!" Ye Xiaobai said calmly.

“Oh, it’s Junior Brother Ye. It’s like this, if you want to refine top-grade pills, you need to be proficient in pill refining. I wonder if Senior Brother can refine a high-grade Gathering Yuan Pill?” Xie Dongyun asked.

"Not yet!" Ye Xiaobai answered truthfully, as he had never even refined a low-grade Gathering Yuan Pill.

"Hahaha, he can't even refine a high-grade one, and he's already thinking about a top-grade one? Is this guy out of his mind?"

"Exactly, exactly! He's just a complete unrealistic dreamer!"

"Senior Brother Xie, don't worry about him!"

Upon hearing this, the alchemist standing nearby immediately began to criticize Ye Xiaobai, but Ye Xiaobai didn't care at all.

Xie Dongyun was startled at first, but quickly regained his smile and said calmly, "Junior brother, it's like this: when you refine a high-grade pill, you need to continuously optimize the pill ratio, the temperature of the spiritual fire, and other refining conditions. Only then will you have a chance to refine a top-grade pill."

"However, top-grade pills are extremely difficult to refine. It may take a lot of materials and time, and you may still end up with nothing. Junior brother, you should be more careful!"

"Thank you so much for your guidance, Senior Brother!" Ye Xiaobai was also genuinely grateful for Xie Dongyun's advice.

Afterwards, Xie Dongyun went to exchange alchemy experiences with others.

Before they knew it, the alchemy exchange meeting had come to an end. Everyone left with a look of satisfaction. Ye Xiaobai also gained a lot, but he still had doubts about Xie Dongyun's claims about top-grade pills.

Therefore, Ye Xiaobai still felt that he should go back and study it carefully.

Half an hour later, Ye Xiaobai returned to his cave and began refining the Gathering Yuan Pill.

Ganlingcao, Lingjiangzi, Fulingzi...

As different spiritual herbs were gradually added, Ye Xiaobai learned Xie Dongyun's refining techniques and combined them with his own extensive experience in alchemy, and quickly completed the refining of the Gathering Yuan Pill.

Ye Xiaobai excitedly opened the alchemy furnace, and five low-grade brown Gathering Yuan Pills appeared inside. Although some medicinal fragrance wafted out, it was far inferior to the fragrance of the pills refined by Xie Dongyun.

It's like what? You spent a long time carefully cultivating a large-leaved crape myrtle, but someone else just casually planted a whole garden full of large-leaved crape myrtle. The difference is too big.

Ye Xiaobai was naturally not going to give up easily. The smell of the Ganling Grass seemed off when it was being refined, and the smell of the Lingjiangzi was also off...

Soon, Ye Xiaobai gradually mastered the timing of refining various pills and the aromas during the refining process. With a "clang!", a new batch of Gathering Yuan Pills was successfully refined.

Upon closer inspection, Ye Xiaobai was overjoyed to find that they were all high-grade Gathering Yuan Pills.

In the days that followed, Ye Xiaobai began to explore the refining of the Supreme Gathering Yuan Pill.

Ye Xiaobai conducted hundreds of experiments with different quantities of materials and different temperatures of the spiritual fire, wasting a lot of materials, but still failed.

Ye Xiaobai was instantly frustrated. These materials, if properly refined into a high-grade Gathering Yuan Pill, could probably sell for hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. Ye Xiaobai couldn't help but sigh that alchemy was truly an expensive profession.

This made Ye Xiaobai, who was already struggling financially, feel heartbroken for several days. From then on, he vowed that even if he starved to death, he would never research the top-grade Gathering Yuan Pill again!

Besides refining pills, Ye Xiaobai naturally spent time improving his cultivation and practicing the Nine Heavens Cloud Dragon Technique.

Ten days have passed since the attack on the spiritual veins of Sanjiang City, and no further reports of attacks have been received from various parts of the White Tiger Sect. Just when everyone in the sect thought that all was well, the world was at peace.

Not long after, another spiritual vein was attacked, and the methods were quite similar: they caused some damage and then quickly left. Although Sect Master Han Chuanming sent people to investigate, he still found no clues and could only order all regions to strengthen their vigilance.

Three days later, the Spirit Garden was attacked again. Most of the spiritual herbs inside were dug up, and those that were not dug up were burned. The White Tiger Sect suffered another major loss.

As the situation in various regions continued to deteriorate, the White Tiger Sect leadership had no choice but to continuously send more personnel to different areas.

Nevertheless, the various resource points within the White Tiger Sect's sphere of influence continued to suffer attacks of varying degrees.

As more and more people are sent abroad, even the alchemists at Lingdan Peak, where Ye Xiaobai works, cannot avoid it.

Previously, he could stay within the sect to refine pills, but that's no longer possible; manpower is too scarce, so he has to go out and provide support. Ye Xiaobai then received orders to inspect a spirit garden within the White Tiger Sect.

The next day, Ye Xiaobai got ready early and went out with the group.

The leader of this team is Yan Wu, a senior brother from Lingjian Peak, who is at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage.

The group consisted of five people, the rest of whom were at the early Foundation Establishment stage, with only Ye Xiaobai at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. Their destination was a spirit garden belonging to the White Tiger Sect, located near Siping Prefecture. The spirit garden contained Huang Cen, one of the raw materials for refining Foundation Establishment pills, making it extremely important.

Ye Xiaobai and the others flew on their swords without stopping all the way to the location of the Spirit Garden.

They encountered several unfamiliar cultivators along the way, but Yan Wu and his group didn't greet them and simply left. After all, Yan Wu didn't think these cultivators posed any real threat to the Spirit Garden's current defenses, so he didn't pay them much attention.

Although they only brushed past each other briefly, Ye Xiaobai still caught a whiff of a familiar scent—Guo Xinghe from the Qingyun Sect.

Back then, in the secret realm, Ye Xiaobai and Tang Chao used a plan to defeat the Qingyun Sect cultivators led by Guo Xinghe. Now, they are all Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Guo Xinghe naturally wants to take revenge on Ye Xiaobai.

However, after seeing Ye Xiaobai fight Zhao Dequan, who was in the late Foundation Establishment stage, without being defeated, he knew that he was no match for him and could only find more helpers to deal with Ye Xiaobai.

Recently, he has been following his elder brother Guo Xingyun to attack the White Tiger Sect's territory. These few are just the vanguard. When the main force arrives, Ye Xiaobai will definitely be made to suffer.

Upon realizing this, Guo Xinghe was overjoyed and unconsciously drank a few more cups.

"Brother, how long will it take for our Qingyun Sect's follow-up team to arrive?" Guo Xinghe asked, looking at Guo Xingyun beside him.

"What, you've only just advanced to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage and you're already in such a hurry to go out and practice?" Guo Xingyun said calmly.

"No, it's just that I ran into someone I know again," Guo Xinghe quickly explained.

"An acquaintance? Who is it?"

"Ye Xiaobai!"