Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

"It doesn't matter what I think. This is the Alchemist Association, and everything is based on elixirs."

"No matter how arrogant a person is, he should know that this is not a stage where one can survive by relying on lies and brute force!"

"Let's wait and see. Perhaps from today onwards... one of the greatest pearls in the history of elixirs will finally be taken!"

Chapter 462: Ascension, I’m ascending!

Bai Yu didn't know many incomplete ancient recipes, and the recipe he chose this time was an incomplete ancient recipe that was famous in the textbooks of third-year students at Penglai Danding Academy.

It is rumored that the recipe for this elixir comes from the ancient book "Baopuzi".

The elixir that Bai Yu wants to refine comes from the inner chapters, and is the famous "Ascension Pill".

The recipe for the Ascension Pill that has been circulated is as numerous as the Book of Documents discovered in the Han Dynasty, with many versions.

Many ancient books highly praise the Ascension Pill, saying that just smelling it can add a hundred years to one's lifespan, and just tasting it can make one ascend to heaven.

Later, when the recipe for the elixir was leaked, it was unanimously considered to be bragging, and its level of nonsense was comparable to Wang Mang's million-strong army.

After all, its grade is only fourth, so it is impossible to ascend to heaven by eating it, but it is possible to ascend directly to heaven.

According to industry research, the most serious study and the most common understanding of the Ascension Pill is that taking the Ascension Pill can help people reach the highest level of Taoist internal energy more easily.

That is, the three flowers gather at the top of the head and the five energies converge to the origin.

This can prolong life and keep you immune to all diseases.

In other words, it has the benefits of strengthening the body, enhancing the soul, and helping people improve their realm. It is equivalent to that after eating it, the attributes will skyrocket, which is almost like ascending to heaven.

However, all this is just speculation.

Because so far, no one has been able to refine the true ascension pill.

The difficulty of restoring the recipe is so great that countless people have shelved it as a rejected case, without even considering the possibility of improving it.

Countless generations of alchemists have failed before this ancient recipe, working hard for decades but to no avail, which has completely put an end to the idea of later generations to perfect it.

It has been recorded in the textbooks of Danding College as a classic case, just like the surgical case with a 300% mortality rate lying in the medical textbooks and will be immortalized forever.

It’s just like every mathematical conjecture that is proposed, how difficult it is to prove it.

Just like those kinds of magical materials that are hard to come by, it is so difficult to get them by luck.

The elixir recipe is a general explanation of an elixir, a kind of knowledge, a formula. The process of human beings seeking knowledge is like a child digging on the beach with a spoon. With each spoonful, he carefully distinguishes the sand and finds the gold inside.

But when the waves wash away the sand, usually when you dig with a spoon, there is nothing.

But countless people can only do this by constantly digging and searching.

Just as Edison said, 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. Without the last 1%, the first 99% are useless.

Inspiration is luck.

Only those who are lucky enough can use a small spoon to dig out a grain of gold or a pearl from the beach.

The predecessors dug ninety-nine spoonfuls, and all the honor goes to the person who dug the last spoonful.

The Ascension Pill might not be difficult to refine, and its grade was only predicted to be fourth grade.

The ancient recipe for the elixir has been around for more than two hundred years, but it has still not been released.

Therefore, the Ascension Pill is hailed as one of the pearls in the history of elixirs, and no one has taken off its veil to this day.

Of course, Bai Yu, who had only read the textbooks,...

Not knowing it.

This is not surprising. Reading textbooks only allows one to learn the knowledge in the books. He did not attend classes and only knew the incomplete recipe of the Ascension Pill and that this pill was very famous.

As for how famous it is, how much sunk costs it has brought, and how many generations of alchemists' blood, tears and cries it has drowned, you will not understand unless you have been bombarded by the teacher's spit in the first row of the classroom.

Bai Yu did not attend the class, so naturally he was ignorant and fearless.

This might seem absurd, but a similar story did occur in history. Frederick Banting, the renowned inventor of insulin and Nobel Prize winner in medicine, was known for his stubbornness and ignorance when researching insulin. Knowing next to nothing about the field, he read a paper and dove headfirst into it. Ultimately, he succeeded in just one year, even using a method that had long been rejected by leading figures in the field. (Fun fact: Banting and Norman Bethune were classmates at the University of Toronto.)

After he became famous, he said himself: If he had known more relevant knowledge and read more journals, he would not have the courage to take the first step.

It is not difficult to find from historical celebrities that once the three factors of courage, strength and luck are combined, it is possible to summon excess success and create miracles.

At this moment, these three points just happened to be combined in Bai Yu.

He put together a big guarantee, which was luck;

He has enough cultivation to support the Phoenix True Fire to refine materials, which is hard power;

He was just ignorant of the difficulty of the Ascension Pill. This was Iron Head Kung Fu, the inexplicable courage that came from ignorance.

During the extraction of the white elm, the auditorium went from noisy to quiet.

He did not introduce the spiritual fire from the earth veins, and only relied on his own phoenix fire to support himself. This was not a difficult task for him. He had already mastered the Phoenix Body Skill and his blue bar was longer than his health points. Just go ahead and create!

Phoenix fire is also one's own spiritual fire, which can be controlled with ease. It is much easier than boiling a frog in warm water with the spiritual fire of the earth veins.

At this time, Bai Yu already had hundreds of furnaces of experience in alchemy, catching up with the four-year alchemist in Penglai. How could an ordinary alchemist have such a super ability to guarantee a successful pill in one furnace?

He never loses money, so he can always maintain high-intensity alchemy work, so his basic skills have been very solid, coupled with his extraordinary realm and the blessing of the Phoenix Body.

This time the refining was completed in just one hour.

For a full hour, the furnace maintained a warm temperature.

The flames billowed and flowed, and every alchemist stared with bated breath, their eyes as devout as if they were watching a scholar writing formulas on the Nobel Prize stage.

Can it be successful?

Everyone was asking themselves this question and clenching their fists. With every passing minute, they felt more nervous and excited.

Among the three thousand people present, at least one-fifth had tried to refine the Ascension Pill.

However, they had never experienced such a smooth refining process. Everything was too fast and too easy. The ease and comfort that came naturally could not be imitated or faked.

Everything in the furnace is in full view of everyone and cannot be concealed.

There wasn't a trace of seriousness in Bai Yu's expression, and his eyes were as calm as flowing water.

He supported the flame of the alchemy furnace solely by his own cultivation, yet he never shed a drop of sweat. His silhouette standing beside the furnace was mysterious and powerful.

That confidence is strongly infecting everyone, including the judges.

Suddenly, the alchemy furnace shook and made a soft humming sound.

A student who was drinking mineral water had his hand shaken suddenly, and the bottle rolled down nervously, splashing half of the body of a person in the front row.

Danshi, whose hair was wet, was unwilling to look back. He stood up nervously, fearing that it was a sign of a furnace explosion.

"Is the pill about to be completed?" the old man with white eyebrows said, "So fast!"

"Phoenix fire is a special kind of spiritual fire. It's normal that it can be refined quickly. This boy's cultivation is also extremely high. He can control the fire at will. I'm afraid he has already achieved a state of power."

"A genius alchemist, and also a genius in cultivation. Why does this sound like..."

"Everyone, pay attention! Don't be distracted! The pill is about to form!"

boom--!

There were several echoes in the furnace. This step of condensing most of the elixirs into pills was the most difficult.

In order to gather the extracted essence into one and lock its essence inside, it must be a pill... In a liquid or colloidal state, the medicinal power will dissipate too quickly, and a solid state means stability. A pill that cannot reach a solid state means that the refining has failed.

Bai Yu didn't intend to waste time. He clenched his five fingers together, and the Phoenix Fire formed a cyclone within the continent, forcing the pill to form directly through high temperature. It would be a waste of time to take it slow.

This operation was too violent, causing more than one-third of the medicine to evaporate directly.

Nangong Yan's eyes widened when he saw this scene. The old man on crutches was so angry that his chest was suffocated. "No one is rushing you, why are you so anxious? Slow down, slow down!"

Bai Yu ignored him. In fact, it was too late to stop at this time. He loosened his palms, put his index finger and middle finger together and pointed to the sky, and the alchemy furnace opened with a sound.

A phoenix flew out from the alchemy furnace, accompanied by bursts of purple smoke. The flying flaming phoenix seemed to have an extra pair of purple wings, and the scattered elixir fragrance was sparkling.

The true red phoenix fire stopped at Bai Yu's palm, and fell down with three pills in its mouth, and then merged into his palm.

The flame in the furnace went out, leaving only the purple smoke wafting out of the furnace, which became more and more refreshing.

"Colored Danxiang!"

"Purple smoke!"

The judges stood up.

Bai Yu was making pills so fast that they were careless and didn't have time to observe carefully. They only saw a swish sound, and very quickly, the pill fell into his palm.

"Young man, this elixir of yours," the white-browed judge extended his hand. "Would you mind letting me take a look?"

"And I!"

"Handsome little brother, let me have a look too!"

Bai Yu threw a Ascension Pill casually and it flew out of his hand and was caught by the nearest judge.

At the same time, the camera on the big screen zoomed in to observe this strange pill closely.

It is white all over, with three colors of cloud patterns on the flawless white jade background. One is purple, the most intense, one is green, and the last one is red.

"This is not a fourth-grade elixir!" Nangong Yan suddenly shouted.

The students in the auditorium were in an uproar. Isn't it the Ascension Pill?

"This is the fifth grade!" Then the sixth grade female alchemist took over the conversation.

The old man on crutches immediately said, "He only used materials below the fourth grade!"

"But this is a fifth-grade elixir!" The white-browed old man exclaimed in shock. "Could it be that the alchemists' speculations have been wrong all along? The Ascension Pill isn't a fourth-grade elixir, but a fifth-grade one? A fifth-grade elixir that can be refined using only materials of fourth-grade or lower?"

The judges were going crazy. One after another in the front row analyzed the pills in various ways, touched them, smelled them, observed them, and almost licked them!

Seven or eight judges gathered in a circle, their voices rising and falling, arguing with each other as heatedly as if they were discussing politics in a group.

More than 3,000 Danshi looked at each other, equally curious, stretching their necks, and only regretted that they could not awaken the ability of the Giraffe Fruit and get closer to see what was going on.

Finally, Bai Yu on the stage coughed: "Ahem!"

As soon as he spoke, the debate stopped. As the refiner, he had the final say: "Since everyone is so curious about whether it is the Ascension Pill, why don't you try it for yourself?"

He fixed his gaze on the judges and said confidently, "If you're worried it might be poisonous, you can let me test the pill myself."

"What a joke!"

The white-browed old man flew into a rage: "How can you let an alchemist eat the pills he made himself?"

"This opportunity must be given to me!"

"No!" Nangong Yan stopped him, "You have to let me do it! I'm an elder of the Alchemist Association, I have the right..."

"I'm an elder too!"

"Me too!"

"Let me try. I have extensive experience in testing pills!"

"It's like everyone has tried it! When I was taking the pill, you were still sucking the milk!"

"Shut up! You old bastard with white hair and a gray beard! Go back and eat your goji berry porridge. I'm going to eat this Ascension Pill today. No one else can help me. I'm telling you!"

There was another quarrel.

Bai Yu had a headache and had to hand over the other two ascension pills.

After a five-minute discussion, the three judges came on stage. Panxi sat down, solemnly swallowed the pill, and began to test it on himself to determine whether it was an ascension pill.

Bai Yu was very confident in the pill he had refined. Even the appraisal in the Chronicle of Heroes had concluded that it was the Ascension Pill, so he was not worried at all that the pill was fake or would kill people.

These alchemists also wanted to witness history, and completely disregarded their own status, rushing to make a scene just to try the elixir.

As the three pills fell into their stomachs, the three of them were shocked at the same time. Their bodies sat down, their skin became scorching hot, and bursts of white smoke floated above their heads.

In the white mist, a few translucent and blurry lights and shadows flew out vaguely, like a wonderful sight of souls leaving the body and flying up into the sky.

After taking the elixir, the white-browed old man's expression became extremely peaceful and comfortable. He felt like he was wandering among the clouds, feeling extremely free, liberated and happy.

Unconsciously, a purple flower, a blue flower, and a red flower bloomed above his head... Countless air currents in his body converged towards the center of his dantian, and the flow was endless. Crackling sounds were heard in his limbs and bones, and the meridians of his old body were connected again. It is said that when the three flowers gather at the top of the head and the five qi return to the origin, the path to the golden elixir will be achieved in no time.

A full quarter of an hour passed before the strange phenomenon slowly dissipated, and the floating clouds, mist, and the spirit and soul that had left the body were all recovered.

The white-browed old man opened his eyes, and the turbidity in his eyes disappeared. He became energetic, and his gaze seemed to see flocks of cranes and purple air coming from the east.

"Is this the highest realm that Taoism speaks of?"