Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

He put his hands in his pockets and stared at the alchemy furnace in front of him, but unfortunately the furnace did not say "What are you looking at" to him.

"Boss, aren't you going to start yet?"

The senior student with glasses next to him pushed up his glasses and asked, "Although there's still time, everyone only has two chances, so we have to hurry up."

Bai Yu gave him a grief-stricken look in return.

I don't understand this at all.

How do I open this furnace?

Why can't I find the knob?

It looks different from a gas stove.

Or... let's just tell the truth. It's better to be embarrassed than to waste these materials.

Just as I was speaking, I saw the senior student next to me starting a first-person demonstration on the spot.

If you want to refine the elixir, you must draw in the fire energy... In the Danding Academy, the thing that is least lacking is spiritual energy. Spiritual energy is the combustion condition of the elixir fire, and the elixir fire itself is stored in the Shengsheng Zaohua Wuji Furnace of the entire Danding Academy, with one main and eight replicas.

The fire in the alchemy furnace in the Kan area can be directly drawn in the alchemy room. The advantage is that you only need to carefully control the temperature. The warm innate fire is far superior to the earth fire used by ordinary alchemists. It is more efficient and has less loss.

This is the foundation of Danding College...

But Bai Yu had no idea about this. He also roughly knew that he was playing with a very important toy, so the best way was to not touch it, as touching it could easily cause accidents.

If so many elixirs were damaged, and I had to pay for them, I would probably lose dozens of credits.

The trouble is that the door to the alchemy room has been blocked, and students are not allowed to enter or leave in order to prevent cheating.

Unable to go out or come in, Bai Yu could only stand there with his arms folded across his chest, staring around.

He decided to just hang out here for the entire game. Even if there was a little mistake, it would be better than losing some spiritual medicine materials.

This is the final exam that is conducted only once a semester, and it is an unexpected test with impromptu topics. Only Danshi can participate.

I can only say that I came at a bad time.

Let’s just watch the fun.

……

"This kid... hasn't even opened the alchemy furnace yet. What does he want to do?" Mo Yuan touched his chin in surprise. He was sitting in the front row, and with his vast soul power he could see the situation at the scene. Naturally, he also noticed Bai Yu's bad behavior.

However, with his mind already preconceived, Mo Yuan immediately had a thought: "It seems this kid is trying to show off his skills, deliberately compressing the time. Is he planning to start refining the elixir when only half the time is left?"

He thought so because more than half of the five four-star instructors in Danding Academy had this kind of personality.

It's a bit... I like to pretend.

I wouldn't say he's arrogant, but he does like showing off his skills.

——The life of an alchemist is very boring, so how can I show my ability as a high-quality alchemist without doing some fancy tricks!

Mo Yuan is not an old scholar. On the contrary, at his age, he prefers young people who are more lively. Being energetic is a good thing.

He stroked his beard, waiting to see how the young man planned to handle it.

At this moment, he suddenly turned his head and saw black smoke rising from a furnace. The temperature of the fire was too high and the spiritual energy fluctuations were too violent, causing the medicinal materials to die. The gushing smoke even caused several nearby students to make mistakes.

Mo Yuan shook his head: "Sure enough, refining the Sword Qi Pill is still too difficult."

The Sword Qi Pill is a second-grade elixir that can nourish sword energy when taken.

For extraordinary sword cultivators below the third level, one pill can offset a month of hard training, and it can be taken repeatedly, so it is naturally in short supply in the market.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to refine, and the average probability of success is less than 10%.

In other words, out of a batch of pills produced, only one in ten can be used.

Even high-quality alchemists are reluctant to refine it, mainly because the failure rate is too high.

Even if Mo Yuan, a sixth-grade alchemist, were to refine the pill, he couldn't guarantee a success rate of more than 30%... and the cost of refining the pill himself was very high, so naturally he wouldn't refine such a low-grade pill.

Although attempts have been made to improve this ancient recipe over the years, the results have not been very good.

……

"It's over, it's over!"

Looking at the empty classroom, Nangong Ling's forehead was sweating with anxiety.

She tried her best but still failed to catch up.

It didn't matter whether she attended the course or not. She knew what the test was about and had reviewed. Whether she could pass the test depended on luck.

Because the Sword Qi Pill depends on your luck.

I received a message before class and went to the school gate to pick up a package. It was a rare item that could enhance spiritual perception. I spent a lot of credits to buy it from a senior graduate.

As a result, there was a logistics delay, and by the time she got it, the class was already over.

No matter what she does now, she will not be able to catch up with this assessment and will definitely be treated as absent.

I also lost my Danshi certificate and had no idea where it was. I went to the Academic Affairs Office and the Lost and Found Office, but got three consecutive responses from the staff - no one came, I didn't see it, and I had to wait for notification.

After that, you have to go back to Daxia to apply for a replacement.

I have been unlucky since I left home this morning. My breakfast spilled on the ground, making the already poor family's situation even worse... I didn't expect that even worse things were yet to come.

When Nangong Ling thought of this, she couldn't help but feel sad.

"Why am I so unlucky today!"

I was so angry that I cried.JPG

She could only go to the door of the alchemy room in a daze and wait for the teacher to come out, hoping to get a light sentence at her discretion by admitting her mistakes.

At least give yourself a try.

Although I have never refined the Sword Qi Pill, what if I succeed?

There are more than ten pieces in a furnace, so I should be able to win one or two.

……

boom!

The senior student with glasses looked at the alchemy furnace that was emitting black smoke, and his expression was like a deflated alpaca.

"Sure enough, it still failed."

He also knew that the Sword Qi Pill was difficult, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult. He had done everything according to the instructions in the book and what the teacher said.

The result is still two big words - look at the face.

It’s as if you have finished the exercise book with great enthusiasm, but when you go to look for the reference answers, you see a scribbled "omitted".

I don’t even know what’s wrong!

Chengniang is unhappy!

Bai Yu tilted his head to look at his alchemy furnace that was emitting black smoke, and watched as the other party stretched out his ruthless iron hand and dug out the medicine residue that was emitting a burnt smell.

It seemed that he was very close to completing the pill, but he still failed when trying to solidify it into shape.

The second level of extraordinary power can already reach the level of spiritual power. With his extraordinary realm of subtlety, he can more easily figure out the changes inside the alchemy furnace. Although he can't see it clearly, he can sense the general idea.

Bai Yu continued to watch as the other person stretched out his hand and pulled out one, two, three...

Ok?

Isn’t this number a bit too much?

Astonishingly, fourteen pills were dug out... and the other party still had half of the materials left.

Bai Yu's eyes gradually became subtle: "Are you refining too much?"

"A lot?" Pushing his glasses, the senior student replied, "Normally, there are about a dozen in a furnace."

"If I only refine one..."

"Then refining the elixir will almost certainly fail. Even if it succeeds by chance, the resulting elixir will be as big as a lightbulb." He gestured to the size of a fist, then spread his hands and complained, "Who could possibly eat this?"

Bai Yu looked at the other person's fist and asked, "Have you ever eaten a light bulb?"

"Ahem..." The other person pushed up his glasses and stopped talking. He urged, "Well, you better start the furnace quickly. Everyone else has finished the first round. If you don't hurry up, it will be too late."

Bai Yu didn't refuse this time, but nodded slightly: "Okay."

He took out the alchemist certificate he had seen, placed it on the table, and then placed his right hand on the alchemy furnace which was still warm with a faint residual heat.

A ball of fire gushed out from the mechanism below, burning silently in the surrounding spiritual energy, swaying and changing with his sight.

Controlling fire doesn't seem to be that difficult.

Is it because my soul power is twice as strong as that of ordinary people?

Bai Yu licked his lips, feeling an urge to try it.

Under normal circumstances, he really wouldn't dare to act recklessly, but...

This furnace can produce more than ten pills.

The guarantor's heart began to stir.

Admittedly, he didn't know how to make pills... but the conditions for activating super powers had been met.

So, let's give it a try.

If this can be successful, it proves that I can completely choose to refine those pills with a lower success rate.

Just treat it as an attempt, it's totally worth it even if it costs some credits.

The senior student with glasses stopped what he was doing and looked over. He noticed that Bai Yu had finally opened the alchemy furnace, and he also held his breath and stared.

Look at this young man.

He was 70% sure that the other party must be a big shot.

His calm demeanor and attitude proved that he was no ordinary person. He was also very curious about how the other party would refine this difficult second-grade Sword Qi Pill.

Mo Yuan also stroked his chin and narrowed his eyes slightly.

It is useless to just learn theoretical knowledge well. In the end, it still depends on the actual hands-on operation.

The next step of refining the elixir will be the time to test your true abilities. Let me see what you are capable of.

Just when many people were looking forward to it, Bai Yu made an unreasonable move, which gave them a little shock as outsiders.

Under the surprised gazes of others, Bai Yu directly picked up all the remaining spiritual medicine materials and threw them into the scorching fire in the alchemy furnace.

Suddenly, flames engulfed it.

"Fuck!" The senior on the right was stunned. He shouted "Fuck" and his dantian exploded. He stared at Bai Yu with a dusty face and said, "Are you here to pick a fight?"

Just throw all the spiritual medicines in for refining. Do you think you are a fifth-grade alchemist who can do many things at the same time?

Isn't this simply nonsense!

And there is enough medicine to refine two furnaces of pills, so throw them all in!

Prodigal, prodigal!

The student whose alchemy furnace was smoking had already pointed his finger and started cursing: "I've never seen anyone making elixirs like this before. You really are..."

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly shut up.

and many more……

Something seems wrong...

This alchemy furnace...

There is no black smoke?!

Chapter 264 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Alchemy is a science.

If it weren't for learning, Danding College wouldn't exist.

Alchemy is essentially very similar to pharmaceutical manufacturing. Both are rigorous academic processes. One studies the property combination of medicinal materials, while the other studies the molecular structure... and ultimately both require double-blind trials and human verification before they can be approved for marketing.

An alchemist needs to be able to identify and recognize the properties, age, category and application of medicinal materials. Even if he does not have the talent for alchemy in the end, the knowledge he has learned is more than enough to be a pharmacist. As for alchemy itself, it requires fire control and proficiency... In a sense, it is like a surgical operation, which requires a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Even if an outsider knows the general idea, he will not be able to perform it anyway.