With two extra sets of alchemical materials, he could gather more pill aura than Lu Xiaotian. With the resentful spirits' help, even if he couldn't kill Lu Xiaotian outright, he could still suppress him and deal him a grievous wound. For Yin Hu, that was hardly impossible.
Even if Lu Xiaotian truly had some astonishing talent, he had once served in the Honghao Celestial Court. Yin Hu didn't need to investigate to know exactly how accomplished Lu Xiaotian had been in alchemy. He had made a targeted plan. In the past, the only times Lu Xiaotian had publicly refined pills were when he helped Daoist Yihua make the Golden Vault Nine Extremes Essence-Transforming Pill, when he competed in alchemy with Lin Shiqing, and when he faced Kuang Ziyou in Starcloud City of the Yu Xuan Celestial Court. There had been only a handful of such occasions.
Even when Lu Xiaotian had worked with certain merchant houses and factions in Nine Central City to refine pills in exchange for the resources he needed, he had done so at a rate several times higher than an ordinary Pill Saint. Most people assumed that he could sustain such an astonishing pace mainly because his cultivation far surpassed that of other immortals at his level. Though he was a Pill Saint, his combat strength was greater than that of ordinary immortals at the same level who focused on divine arts and cultivation techniques. That alone made him an anomaly. His formidable cultivation and Primordial Spirit allowed him to refine pills far more frequently than other Pill Saints of his level. It was remarkable, but not incomprehensible.
But while these people had speculated about Lu Xiaotian's alchemical skill, they had never truly witnessed his speed. Given the same batch of pills, Lu Xiaotian refined them