After transmigrating, I cultivated immortality by smelling the scent.

Chapter 153 Ye Xiaobai unexpectedly obtains alchemy insights

Hearing the kitchen staff discussing the recipe reminded Ye Xiaobai of his recent obsession with finding a fifth-grade pill formula.

Ye Xiaobai has refined quite a few fourth-grade pills and some high-grade pills during this period, but he clearly feels that his pill refining skills have reached a bottleneck and are difficult to improve in the short term.

Ye Xiaobai had always wanted to improve his alchemy skills by using fifth-order pill formulas. Now he suddenly realized that he could change his perspective and improve his alchemy skills by continuing to refine the pill formulas he had already mastered.

Judging from the current situation, Ye Xiaobai felt that even if he were given a fifth-order pill formula, he would not be able to successfully refine it.

Ye Xiaobai has a lot of room for improvement in all the details of alchemy, such as material processing, the strength of soul power, and the control of alchemical fire.

Realizing this, Ye Xiaobai decided to continue practicing his basic alchemy skills for the next month.

Previously, Ye Xiaobai had been cultivating a technique to enhance his divine sense—Divine Travel Across a Thousand Miles—but he could only cultivate it up to the Foundation Establishment stage. Now, he is almost at the Perfection stage.

We haven't encountered any new and suitable techniques to enhance spiritual awareness yet, so this is the only option for now.

With these thoughts in mind, Ye Xiaobai decided to first cultivate his Divine Travel to the Great Perfection before improving his other abilities related to alchemy.

Over the next few days, Ye Xiaobai continued to practice his "Divine Travel Across a Thousand Miles" technique.

While cultivating, Ye Xiaobai also made sure to refine the restrictions on Lu Qingteng's storage ring, as there were bound to be many treasures waiting for him inside.

Five days later, Ye Xiaobai successfully cultivated the Divine Travel Across a Thousand Miles technique to the Great Perfection realm, and immediately felt that his divine sense could detect situations hundreds of miles away.

His spiritual strength was not much different from that of a typical Core Formation stage cultivator, which made it easier to control the temperature changes of the alchemical fire and laid a good foundation for refining high-level pills.

Ye Xiaobai immediately took out his alchemy furnace and began refining the Youth Preservation Pill, as he had recently accumulated a lot of pill material storage bags.

He lit a fire, added the spiritual herbs, and slowly refined the essence of the herbs. Soon, with his powerful divine sense, Ye Xiaobai found refining pills much easier.

In the blink of an eye, a batch of Youth Preservation Pills was successfully refined, with the refining time reduced by half compared to before.

Ye Xiaobai couldn't help but marvel at how many benefits a powerful divine sense truly brought.

Upon opening the alchemy furnace and examining it closely, two high-grade anti-aging pills were found, while the rest were mostly mid-grade anti-aging pills.

Previously, when Ye Xiaobai refined the high-grade Youth Preservation Pill, it would only appear once every three attempts. Unexpectedly, this time he refined the high-grade Youth Preservation Pill in just one attempt.

It seems that my hard work during this period has paid off, and my alchemy skills have clearly improved.

After a short rest, Ye Xiaobai resumed refining the Youth Preservation Pill. As expected, he produced another high-grade Youth Preservation Pill. Ye Xiaobai now had a better understanding of his alchemy skills.

So, Ye Xiaobai stopped refining pills and began refining Lu Qingteng's storage ring. A few days ago, Ye Xiaobai had already felt the restriction loosening. Now that his divine sense had greatly increased, it was a good opportunity to speed up the refining of the restriction.

Two days later, Ye Xiaobai finally broke the restriction on Lu Qingteng's storage ring.

Ye Xiaobai quickly extended his divine sense to check, and after just a brief look, Ye Xiaobai was so excited that he almost shouted out loud.

The space, spanning over a hundred square meters, was filled with a massive amount of spirit stones, amounting to over a million, along with more than a dozen unidentified magical treasures. There were also many other precious items, but it seemed that the rare spiritual herbs and pills were missing; Lu Qing Teng must have consumed them all when he was severely injured.

Ye Xiaobai could only guess at that.

As Ye Xiaobai was carefully examining his storage ring, a map made of a specially crafted demon beast hide caught his attention.

Ye Xiaobai quickly took it out and examined it carefully. After confirming it several times, Ye Xiaobai felt it was somewhat familiar, but couldn't quite place it. Ye Xiaobai tried injecting spiritual energy to see if there was a hidden map, but there was no response.

With no other option, Ye Xiaobai had to temporarily abandon his study of the map and deal with it later. He then proceeded to examine the other treasures in his storage ring. At this moment, a scroll emanating a powerful aura of soul energy caught his eye.

Ye Xiaobai quickly took the scroll out of his storage ring and examined it carefully. The scroll itself was a spiritual artifact. As soon as he opened it, a landscape painting came into view.

The painting features lush green hills and clear waters, a beautiful scene. However, there is a small blank space on the right side of the painting. Could it be that the painting is left to be inscribed with a poem?

Ye Xiaobai thought about it carefully and realized that this didn't make sense. After all, this painting was a spiritual weapon, so whether or not it had a poem on it shouldn't matter. Could there be something hidden inside?

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaobai quickly injected his spiritual energy to check, but there was no reaction.

At this moment, Ye Xiaobai remembered that there was a fluctuation of soul power before he opened it, so he immediately injected his divine sense to confirm it again, and sure enough, there was an unexpected gain.

A jade slip was hidden in the blank space of the scroll. Ye Xiaobai quickly refined the seal on the jade slip and probed it with his divine sense.

Upon closer inspection, Ye Xiaobai was astonished to find that the records were alchemy insights left behind by a master alchemist named Liu Boyu from hundreds of years ago. He was greatly shocked, but unfortunately, few of the recipes had been preserved.

Only an eighth-order pill formula remained. At this point, Ye Xiaobai's materials were not worth mentioning. An eighth-order pill formula corresponds to pills used by Nascent Soul stage cultivators. Even if Ye Xiaobai had the materials, he did not have the ability to refine it.

However, after reading the alchemy master's insights, Ye Xiaobai discovered a familiar sentence: "Alchemy emphasizes the full combination of different medicinal materials, such as principal, assistant, adjuvant, and guide herbs, to achieve the corresponding effects!"

Wasn't this what Elder Liu Santong mentioned when he was instructing me on how to cook at the Xiaoyao Restaurant? I never expected that Elder Liu Santong would have such insights into alchemy! I should have a good chat with Elder Liu sometime; maybe I'll gain some new insights.

Of course, Ye Xiaobai didn't know anything about alchemy, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He just said that when making food, you need to pay attention to the combination of ingredients.

Later, when I entered Lingdan Peak to learn alchemy, none of my seniors mentioned this matter.

Ye Xiaobai had almost forgotten about this matter, but unexpectedly, the alchemy master here mentioned "ruler, minister, assistant, and envoy" again. It seems that only advanced alchemists would understand this concept.

Ye Xiaobai's alchemy skills were probably too low before, and he hadn't been exposed to the special precautions for advanced alchemists.

Now that he had the insights of this alchemy master, Ye Xiaobai immediately felt that his alchemy skills would definitely reach a new level in the days to come, and it was not impossible for him to achieve excellent results in the alchemy competition.

With this in mind, Ye Xiaobai resumed his study of the alchemy manual, hoping to gain new insights.

Over the next few days, Ye Xiaobai began to carefully study the concept of "principal, assistant, adjuvant, and guide" in order to improve his alchemy skills.

The pill formulas that remain on the mainland today were all developed by cultivators in the past. During the process of inheritance, some formulas may have been lost. In addition, some spiritual herbs have disappeared. Later generations can only continuously optimize and improve the pill formulas based on the work of their predecessors, which is how new pill formulas have gradually been formed.

Thinking about this, Ye Xiaobai felt that the "ruler, minister, assistant, and envoy" combination might really be able to improve the pill formula and even refine higher-grade pills.

The thought of being able to refine higher-grade pills excited Ye Xiaobai, and he immediately began his pill refining experiment.