Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

He glanced at the banner hanging above the auditorium, and everything became clear.

Dancing Association Annual Awards Selection

……day.

…I really walked onto the wrong stage.

Bai Yu regretted it very much at that time.

I realized something was wrong a long time ago, why didn't I find out the situation earlier?

You should have realized something was wrong the moment you walked in, why was your reaction so slow?

He really wanted to imitate Teacher Luo and give himself two loud slaps.

But now, thousands of people were staring at him. The entire auditorium was filled with members of the Alchemist Association, from the big guys to the newbies. Their gazes were all fixed on him... and filled with a bit of expectation. Several highly respected big guys were whispering to each other, their eyes revealing eagerness and anticipation.

No... I'm a person who has walked into the wrong place. Why didn't any of you come up to stop me or question my identity?

At least give me a way out!

But no one spoke, so he could only bite the bullet and walk forward, getting closer and closer to the center of the auditorium.

Then he stood in the center and faced the three thousand people head-on.

No one spoke.

It seemed as if everyone was waiting for him to lecture them.

Bai Yu felt that he was not being tested, but a leader who was about to give a speech on stage.

By now……

I couldn't bring myself to say "I've come to the wrong place."

But this is the place for annual awards, and the awards are naturally based on academic achievements. In the Alchemist Association, the results are the research results on elixirs.

This is not something Bai Yu could just make up on the spur of the moment.

How to do?

How to do it?

Bai Yu appeared calm and confident on the outside, but he was actually sweating profusely.

While silently speeding up his thinking, Bai Yu remembered his advance preparations.

In order to smoothly pass the third-grade alchemist assessment and to avoid unexpected situations, he deliberately calculated the number of times and left himself a big guarantee.

In the past, he would refine dozens of pills in one furnace, but this time, the big guarantee he left for himself was not calculated based on the number of pills, but based on the number of furnaces used.

It happens to be the 100th furnace (or maybe the 200th, 300th... always a multiple of 100)

With a big guarantee, he can ensure that this furnace will definitely produce pills, and the quality will be high enough.

Now his only chance to turn the situation around is to refine the elixir.

The alchemist speaks with elixirs!

It’s up to you, the guaranteed minimum rule!

Thinking of this, Bai Yu no longer hesitated.

He also missed his last chance to step down and explain.

This is such a pretentious thing that has nowhere to go.

(Bottom line rule: In the end, I took it all.)

Bai Yu really wanted to start refining the elixir without saying anything and pretend to be an expert.

However, the stage of the entire auditorium is for defense speeches, and there is no place for the alchemy furnace.

It is impossible for Bai Yu to carry the alchemy furnace with him.

However, this is the Alchemist Association, how could there not be an alchemy furnace?

He briefly gathered his true energy and broke the silence in the auditorium with a resounding voice: "Can I borrow the alchemy furnace?"

Chapter 461: The Pearl of the History of Alchemy

If you ask Bai Yu whether he has studied hard in the past few months.

The answer is yes.

He devoted most of his time to the teaching materials of Danding College, where both practical and theoretical knowledge were essential.

Whether it was intentional or by coincidence, he did successfully transform more than a dozen unique alchemy techniques, greatly improving the quality and yield of the pills.

This is also the reason why experts, professors and ordinary students at Danding College all praise him.

Compared to the person who divides the cake, the real skill is to make the cake bigger.

For alchemists, the cake is the types of elixirs and the refining techniques... As mentioned before, there has always been an archaeological school in the alchemy world.

Most of the elixir formulas today are discovered and excavated from the shadow world, or retrieved from the sedimentation area.

The origins of more than 70% of the pill recipes remain a mystery. The higher the level of the pill recipe, the rarer it is, and the rate of its release is quite alarming.

If I were to create a new pill recipe from scratch, the difficulty and cost would be extremely high, because the cultivation cycle of high-grade spiritual herbs and medicines is extremely long, and some cannot be artificially bred at all, so I can only enter the shadow world to collect them.

Up to now, on average, a new spiritual herb and medicine has been discovered every few months. It may be a close relative of a certain spiritual medicine, or it may be its ancestor. The time and space in the shadow world are very chaotic, and various strange variants of the spiritual herbs and medicines will appear in the evolution process.

It’s like no one knows what era and what kind of strange fossil the next one they collect will be.

This is true for spiritual herbs, and it is even more so for the research on elixir formulas. Their combinations are ever-changing, and it is extremely difficult to find the golden ratio.

Almost all alchemists will not make drastic changes to the elixir recipes, but will make small-scale improvements or attempts on known elixir formulas.

But no matter how low the price of first- and second-grade elixirs is, there will always be a marginal effect.

As long as a permanent asphyxiation therapy cannot be achieved, saving money is ultimately inferior to increasing revenue.

The reason why Bai Yu dared to stay was because he was sure that as long as he could perfect an ancient elixir recipe, he would be able to shut up these three thousand people.

Perfecting an ancient elixir formula is extremely difficult. With Bai Yu's knowledge level of barely recognizing 60% to 70% of the properties of spiritual herbs and medicines, he had no chance to sharpen his skills at the last minute. He was exposed by just a few simple questions from the expert judges.

So, I just started refining the elixir.

Give the ball to the bottom line rule.

Believe that the big guarantee will take care of everything, just believe it first!

As soon as Bai Yufu opened his mouth, he, who was already the focus of the crowd, gave people a strong sense of confidence.

Is borrowing an alchemy furnace in accordance with the procedures?

Of course not. If a furnace is required, it will take a long time, which will lengthen the entire award evaluation process.

But will the judges of the Dancing Association agree?

After they whispered to each other for a few minutes, they actually nodded in agreement.

Because this kind of thing is not without precedent.

Only those who are extremely confident in their own abilities would dare to start refining elixirs in front of three thousand people.

At the same time, this also means that the selection of this year's annual awards is completely different from the situation of advance submission.

"I like the unexpected." An old man in a white crane robe stroked his white eyebrows.

"I thought Song Keji would be the main star on stage, but I never expected that he would be overshadowed by a little guy who was the finale." said another old man with a cane.

"Of course he can steal the spotlight if he's capable... but I have almost no impression of this young man."

"He was able to enter the backstage, and we've confirmed that there's no problem with the official seal. It seems there was a small error in the application process, missing the name and project. But seeing how confident he looked standing on the stage, it can't be wrong." Another young female sixth-rank alchemist rubbed her belly. "This handsome guy looks much more pleasing to the eye than before. It seems that we still need a little youthful masculinity to avoid the smell of old age."

The alchemy furnace is on stage.

It was actually hidden under the auditorium. As the gate on the ground opened, just like the lifting device under the stage was opened, the alchemy furnace covered with red cloth was revealed.

The judge in the center spoke up, "This alchemy furnace hasn't been used for some time. It was previously used as a decoration. It will take some time to guide the spiritual fire. Please state in advance what kind of elixir you plan to refine this time."

The name on the sign in front of the judge was Nangong Yan.

The Nangong family, and his status in the Alchemist Association should be quite high, at least he is an elder in the decision-making level.

When Bai Yu heard what the other party said, he laughed.

...Sorry, I can't answer that.

Nangong Yan raised his eyebrows slightly. Even an old man like him seemed unable to see any more meaning from the young man's smile. He couldn't see through the depth of this young man.

Bai Yu turned around and spoke, not giving the other party a chance to attack: "No need to wait for the spiritual fire, I can start refining the pill now."

He snapped his fingers, and a ball of fire flew out from his palm, flapped its wings, circled in the air three times, and flew into the alchemy furnace. The whistling flames made everyone's eyes and faces flash red.

"What kind of spiritual fire is this?"

"Suzaku?"

"Suzaku's Nanming Lihuo is not red." Someone looked at Nangong Yan to try to confirm, after all, the Nangong family is the family that inherited the Suzaku Feather.

"It should be...Phoenix Fire." Nangong Yan hit the nail on the head.

"Phoenix Fire? Phoenix..." The white-browed judge, Old Man Xi, pondered, "I've never heard of anyone using Phoenix Fire to make elixirs."

As long as it is spiritual fire, it can be used to make elixirs, but different flames will bring different benefits.

Nanming Lihuo is a stable flame that is easier to extract the essence of medicinal materials than earth vein fire. As for the true red phoenix fire, no one has ever seen how it is used to refine elixirs.

Although the mention of phoenix and flames makes people think of the Sun King, Huang Qixia is not an alchemist and never touches elixirs.

Bai Yu took out spiritual herbs and medicinal materials from the space of his personal belongings. These were all what was left over from refining the elixir.

The elixir he was going to refine this time was a fourth-grade elixir.

Grades one and two are mainstream, grade three is rare, and grade four is precious.

If he could perfect the ancient recipe for a fourth-grade elixir, even if it wasn't enough to win the prize, it would definitely be enough for him to leave the table peacefully without being treated to vegetable leaves and eggs.

When Bai Yu took out the materials and threw them into the furnace one by one, the crowd below had already begun to guess what kind of elixir he was going to refine.

"I think it's a pill with gold and wood attributes."

"No, it should be the Sha-Breaking Pill."

"I think it's a pill used to refine the soul."

"I think it's the Dragon Power Pill that strengthens the body."

More than three thousand people began to whisper.

Bai Yu didn't say a word before refining the elixir, and didn't even add any modifying words after refining the elixir. He didn't even introduce the ingredients, but threw them directly into the elixir furnace.

The side profile is so noble, cold and focused.

But everyone thinks there is nothing wrong with it.

Of course you have to keep quiet when refining the elixir, just like singing, dancing, rapping, and playing basketball in the examination room when no one is writing the science test.

The first dozen or so materials thrown into the alchemy furnace caused a lot of controversy, including the judges' opinions were not unanimous.

But when Bai Yu took out the extremely famous Morning Mist and Purple Smoke Wood, the entire auditorium fell into absolute silence, like a cemetery bombed by artillery.

Almost dead silence.

After a few brief seconds, there were bursts of sounds of people gasping for air, which madly boosted the greenhouse effect.

Even a novice could tell that Bai Yu was going to refine some kind of elixir. It wasn't because the combination of these two materials could produce nuclear fusion, but because these two materials could only appear in one prescription at the same time.

“Ascension Pill!”

Nangong Yan almost stood up, but his strong willpower made him sit back down.

"Does he really know what he's doing?"

"In this kind of situation, in front of three thousand people, he actually refined the Ascension Pill!"

The constantly vibrating tables and chairs represented the uneasy mood of the head of the Nangong family. He had already started shaking his legs.

"Every alchemist dreams of conquering the Ascension Pill when they are young," the white-browed judge said, his expression gradually becoming serious. "But no one has ever achieved it."

"I'm really hoping this is all a bad joke and performance art." The youngest sixth-rank alchemist in the alchemist association changed her lazy expression. "But I have to admit, my curiosity has been completely piqued!"

"Do you think he will succeed?"