After transmigrating, I cultivated immortality by smelling the scent.

Chapter 63 Successful Refining of Foundation Establishment Pill

After Jiang Dongxu led everyone back to the Qingyun Sect, he anxiously pulled Mo Haiyun aside and asked, "Little Mo, how's it going? How's your research on the White Tiger Sect's mountain-protecting battle coming along?"

Mo Haiyun quickly replied, "The White Tiger Sect's protective formation is called the Nine Revolutions Star Array. This array uses the primordial energy of heaven and earth as a guide, integrating the power of the stars in the heavens to create an illusion that echoes the real starry sky. It is indeed not easy to break this array."

"Xiao Mo, you've actually used this formation. Is there any way to break it?" Jiang Dongxu asked hurriedly.

"We can choose to destroy the inner core of the array, causing the stellar power within the array to become chaotic, thereby weakening the array's power."

"At the same time, when the celestial phenomenon of 'dark surging of the Milky Way' appears, at the moment when the power of the stars is weakest, we can break the formation by attacking from the outside!" Mo Haiyun said slowly.

"When will the 'dark surging of the Milky Way' celestial phenomenon appear?" Jiang Dongxu asked curiously.

"It will appear soon!"

"The only remaining difficulty lies in finding the array's core. After all, the core of an array is usually very well hidden, and it would be difficult for anyone who is not a core elder of the White Tiger Sect to know its exact location," Mo Haiyun added.

"This is indeed a problem I need to think about carefully. Xiao Mo, why don't you go down and study the formation again to see if there are any new ways to break it?" Jiang Dongxu said, beckoning Mo Haiyun to leave the main hall.

"Vice Sect Master Jiang, with all this commotion today, the White Tiger Sect is on high alert again. How can we obtain information about the array's core?" Song Yu asked anxiously.

"It's alright. Let's reduce the number of disciples confronting the White Tiger Sect and give them a more relaxed environment. They're staying indoors now, but we'll still have to send disciples out of the sect to train after a while."

"In addition, since the sect leader is still in seclusion trying to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, we need to wait a little longer. We can take this time to gather information about the array core."

"The Vice Sect Master's considerations are far-sighted!" Song Yu quickly praised.

"Furthermore, our sect's disciples brought back quite a few spiritual herbs after the secret realm ended. We can take this opportunity to improve the strength of our sect's disciples. We must never allow the White Tiger Sect to launch a sneak attack on us in the secret realm again!" Jiang Dongxu said loudly.

"Yes!" everyone replied.

"Let's call it a day!"

"Yes!"

Then everyone left the main hall.

At this moment, Liu Qingxuan was still there and hadn't left. Jiang Dongxu asked curiously, "Junior Brother Liu, is there anything else?"

"I heard that Vice Sect Master Jiang's wife is considering finding a good husband for her youngest daughter. I wonder if she has found one yet?" Liu Qingxuan said with a smile.

"Oh, don't even mention it. My youngest daughter has been spoiled since she was little. We've introduced her to many talented young men, but she doesn't like any of them. It's driving my husband and me crazy. Junior Brother Liu, do you have any good candidates in mind?" Jiang Dongxu said impatiently.

“Vice Sect Master Jiang, look at your youngest daughter, who is at the Foundation Establishment stage and has a stunning appearance. My disciple, Mo Haiyun, is already at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, is handsome, and is also skilled in formations.”

"What do you think of the two of them being together?" Liu Qingxuan thought, trying his best to bring the two young people together.

“Xiao Mo is indeed good, but my daughter still needs to take a look,” Jiang Dongxu said.

"Alright, alright, then Vice Sect Master Jiang will arrange a time for the two young people to meet!" Liu Qingxuan said happily.

"can!"

……

White Tiger Sect.

Not long after Ye Xiaobai returned to the sect, upon hearing that Zhao Deren had died in the secret realm, Zhao Shuqin, the peak master of Yanyu Peak, along with Zhao Deren's father, Zhao Dequan, sought out Ye Xiaobai and Li Xinyan to inquire about the specific circumstances of the incident.

Ye Xiaobai and Li Xinyan insisted that Zhao Deren was killed by the Qingyun Sect cultivators. Although Zhao Shuqin and Zhao Dequan still had some doubts about Ye Xiaobai's claim, they had no evidence and could only let it go for the time being.

Ye Xiaobai was also worried that the Zhao family would cause trouble, but fortunately, Ye Xiaobai did not reveal any flaws in front of others.

A few days later, the sect distributed the Foundation Establishment Pills, and Ye Xiaobai and the others began preparing for Foundation Establishment.

Ye Xiaobai naturally planned to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill himself. After all, he had collected a lot of spiritual herbs in the secret realm. He had handed over some of them, but he hadn't forgotten to keep some for himself.

After returning to the sect, Ye Xiaobai completed his certification as a second-tier alchemist, having already learned how to refine many second-tier pills in the secret realm.

For Ye Xiaobai, refining five kinds of second-tier pills was already a piece of cake.

Next comes the time to refine the third-tier pill—the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Early that morning, Ye Xiaobai first meditated to restore his spiritual energy. Once his spiritual energy was fully restored, Ye Xiaobai carefully took out the Foundation Establishment Pills issued by the sect and began to study them. Since no one else could teach him how to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, he had to figure it out himself.

After Ye Xiaobai cultivated the "Smell a Thousand Miles in One Breath" technique, his sense of smell became exceptionally sharp. As soon as he took out the pill, he immediately smelled the fragrance of the Foundation Establishment Pill, which contained the mixed fragrance of various spiritual herbs such as aconite, drunken fish grass, and arisaema.

The fragrance is like a lotus flower just beginning to bloom in the summer breeze, elegant yet rich, captivating and irresistible.

However, Ye Xiaobai quickly regained his composure and sense of smell. He had enough of the aromas to begin refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Ye Xiaobai took out his alchemy furnace, activated it with spiritual fire, and began to put in various spiritual herbs.

"Aconite Spirit Herb"

"Aroid grass"

"Buddleja officinalis"

Next, the temperature of the alchemy furnace is controlled by spiritual energy to slowly refine the impurities from the spiritual herbs. After refining the impurities, they are carefully removed by enveloping them with spiritual energy.

The next step is to condense the spiritual energy from all the herbs into pills.

At this moment, Ye Xiaobai was completely focused and dared not be distracted at all, lest so many precious spiritual herbs be wasted.

When he sensed that the aroma of the spiritual herbs was about right, Ye Xiaobai focused all his efforts on condensing the pill. As expected, with a "bang!", the refining failed.

Looking at the charred spirit herbs, Ye Xiaobai felt heartbroken and needed to reflect on his failures.

The aroma of the spiritual herb had been refined to be almost identical to that of the Foundation Establishment stage cultivators from the sect, so why did it fail to solidify and even become burnt in the end?

Ye Xiaobai really couldn't figure it out for a moment.

Is it burnt? Or is the heat too high?

Try reducing the temperature of the spirit fire.

Ye Xiaobai lowered the temperature of the spiritual fire once again and began refining, but in the end, it failed to condense and turned into a pile of pill residue.

What does this tell us?

This means the temperature was fine the first time, so the timing was wrong. Could it be that I condensed the pill too late? But the smell of the condensed pill was similar to the smell of the Foundation Establishment Pill in my hand.

Does this mean we need to start condensing the pill before reaching this scent, since the scent of the Foundation Establishment Pill is the scent of the final condensed pill?

Thinking about this, Ye Xiaobai felt as if he had suddenly found a trick. After recovering his spiritual power, he began the next round of pill refining.

Persistence pays off. This time, Ye Xiaobai successfully refined a Foundation Establishment Pill. Although it was only a low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, it was still a hard-won success.

Now, I don't have to worry about the number of Foundation Establishment Pills I have.

Next, Ye Xiaobai refined the remaining materials into Foundation Establishment Pills. Even more fortunately, he eventually refined more than 100 Foundation Establishment Pills, including 10 high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills. With this, Ye Xiaobai would basically have no problem entering the Foundation Establishment stage.

The Foundation Establishment Pill has been refined; now it's time to begin the foundation establishment process.