"What kind of thing are you, daring to bully my Tianxuan Sect!"

A young man's angry shout suddenly boomed around them. Following a stream of golden light, a scorching aura swept through the area, causing Zhuge Tao to take two steps back in fear.

Hong Ye, at the young age of twenty-six, has already entered the Yuan Dan realm and has the opportunity to enter the Fa Xiang realm before the age of thirty. He can be said to be the strongest disciple in the entire Tianxuan Sect in terms of both strength and talent.

Hong Ye, who was cultivating on Tianxuan Mountain, rushed over immediately after hearing that the disciples of Tianxuan Sect had been deceived by an alchemist.

Although Hong Ye often complains about the Tianxuan Sect, he will not stand idly by when it comes to matters of the sect. Instead, he wants to save face for his fellow disciples as soon as possible.

"Oh, Qin Xin, you're back. We'll talk later. Let's deal with this fake medicine alchemist first."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Ye prepared to attack Zhuge Tao directly.

Qin Xin could sense from the fiery aura emanating from Hong Ye's body that there seemed to be a strange fire seed within him, and its rank seemed to be quite high, causing the Blue Rock Bone Fire, which he had integrated into his Martial Spirit Pattern and evolved through absorption, to tremble.

As the powerful aura swept out, Zhuge Tao showed no intention of retreating. Instead, he strode forward, as if he wanted to be beaten up by Hong Ye.

Faced with the suicidal Zhuge Tao, Hong Ye naturally wouldn't hold back.

"boom!"

Just as Hong Ye was about to unleash his punch, an old man in a blue alchemist's robe appeared in front of Zhuge Tao. He waved his hand and raised a barrier of Yuan energy, causing the force of Hong Ye's punch to be dissipated, forcing him to retreat rapidly to escape.

"The people of Tianxuan Sect are indeed domineering, daring to kill the alchemists of my Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy. Does your Tianxuan Sect want to make an enemy of the Pill Academy?!"

After repelling Hong Ye, Li Xi immediately shouted a rebuke.

For a moment, the surrounding martial artists looked at each other in bewilderment. In their view, the relationship between Tianxuan Sect and Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy was not very harmonious.

After Li Xi appeared, Qin Xin roughly guessed some things.

Given Zhuge Tao's strength and influence at the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy, he would certainly not dare to directly remove the main ingredient from the pills and refine these useless Nourishing Essence Pills.

It was obvious that Zhuge Tao had received instructions from Li Xi behind him, which was why he dared to do this.

The two seemed to be deliberately creating dissatisfaction among the Tianxuan Sect disciples towards the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy, but Qin Xin was not quite sure why they would do this.

"Elder Li, there's no need to be so sharp."

“There is naturally no hostility between the Tianxuan Sect and the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy.”

"But even an ordinary martial artist who doesn't know how to refine pills can tell that this pill is a waste pill."

Qin Xin knew a bit about Hong Ye's temper; he was a fearless person, and if the confrontation continued, it would most likely lead to a bloody conflict.

In this way, problems are bound to arise between the alchemists of Tianxuan Sect and Tuocang Mountain Alchemy Academy. Moreover, Tianxuan Sect's base, Tianxuan Mountain, is so close to Tuocang Mountain Alchemy Academy. If the two sides become enemies, it will cause great trouble for the cultivation of Tianxuan Sect disciples.

Qin Xin is also an elder of the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy. Although he has no real power, his words carry some credibility.

"Oh? Qin Xin, you also want to get involved in this matter?"

"Remember that you are an elder of the Dan Academy on Tuocang Mountain."

Li Xi was surprised to see Qin Xin step forward. It turned out that Yang Xiu, the dean of the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy, and Yun Li, the vice dean, had left the academy for some business.

He was also acting on the orders of Vice Dean Jia Yi, wanting to cause some trouble for the Tianxuan Sect.

Given Qin Xin's current status, if he were to forcefully interfere, it would hinder the progress of his subsequent affairs. Of course, Li Xi, a seasoned veteran who had been working in the Pill Academy for many years, was also eager to find a way to deal with Qin Xin, this troublesome individual.

Qin Xin had no good impression of Li Xi either, and retorted without holding back, "No matter where I am an elder, I am first and foremost a disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, and naturally I have the right to speak."

"These Nourishing Essence Pills lack the main ingredient, but they are condensed pills. This requires a very high level of control over the flames of the alchemist. I'm afraid Zhuge Tao's strength is not yet sufficient to accomplish this."

"These Nourishing Essence Pills must have been refined by Elder Li."

"This kind of blatant cheating in leveling up, how can you say it doesn't violate the rules of the Alchemy Academy?"

Qin Xin's words hit the nail on the head, piercing Li Xi's heart and leaving him speechless for a moment.

"You, you're spouting nonsense!"

"I refined this Nourishing Essence Pill myself. You claim it was refined by your teacher? Then provide proof!"

Zhuge Tao jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on.

Qin Xin's words instilled some fear in him. Although the Dan Academy was relatively relaxed, the management of pill refining was extremely strict.

The purpose of this is to prevent highly respected alchemists from using their apprentices' names to absolve themselves of responsibility if they fail to refine elixirs for themselves.

Of course, there have been many instances where teachers helped their apprentices refine pills, allowing the apprentices to obtain more resources within the alchemy academy.

All of these alchemists met the same fate: they were all expelled from the Tuocang Mountain Alchemy Academy.

"Whether it's slander or not, we can find out by examining the residual fire energy on this pill."

"So, Elder Li, would you like to give it a try?"

Qin Xin looked at Li Xi with a smile and raised the Nourishing Yuan Pill in his hand.

"snort!"

Knowing he was in the wrong, Li Xi turned and walked towards the Dan Academy on Tuocang Mountain, with Zhuge Tao following closely behind.

"Old man, you haven't finished speaking yet, why are you in such a hurry to run away!"

Seeing Li Xi leave directly, Hong Ye was displeased and stepped forward as if to stop the two of them.

However, Qin Xin reached out and stopped Hong Ye, which puzzled Hong Ye for a moment.

"Qin Xin, why are you stopping me? Let me teach these two fake pill refiners a lesson!"

Qin Xin also disagreed with Hong Ye's temper and could only explain, "The purpose of these two is to incite conflict between the alchemists of Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy and Tianxuan Sect."

“Once you beat up Li Xi, he might use this incident to cause a lot of trouble, even leading to discord between the disciples of Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy and Tianxuan Sect. This would not be a good thing for Tianxuan Sect.”

After hearing Qin Xin's brief explanation, Hong Ye suddenly realized what was going on.

One hundred Nourishing Essence Pills are not actually of much value, just a few thousand low-grade spirit stones. This is intended to incite dissatisfaction among the Tianxuan Sect disciples towards the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy, which is exactly what these people want to see.

Of course, Qin Xin also had a bad feeling. The fact that Li Xi and Zhuge Tao dared to act so boldly meant that something must have happened inside the Tuocang Mountain Pill Academy.

"But we can't let Xiahou Chu lose over a thousand low-grade spirit stones for nothing."

After learning the consequences, Hong Ye was grateful to Qin Xin for stopping him, but thousands of low-grade spirit stones were extremely important to an ordinary family.

If this effort is wasted, it will likely have a far-reaching impact on Xiahou Chu's family.

"Leave the matter of the Nourishing Essence Pill to me for now!"

"As for what Elder Li is really up to, I still need to find out."

Refining a hundred Nourishing Essence Pills was not a difficult task for Qin Xin, so he readily agreed.