A three-legged and square-eared bronze alchemy furnace exudes a faint medicinal fragrance under the intense fire.
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew by, and the lid of the furnace was opened. Dan pills with shining metallic luster flew out of the furnace and fell into a horrifying palm with eroded skin and flesh.
"How about this time?"
Chi Yao stood up from the alchemy furnace, his tone full of hope.
Yuan Tiangang didn't say anything, but took some crumbs from a pill and fed it to the sparrows prepared in advance.
"Chirp chirp~"
After the sparrow swallowed it, it suddenly became excited, and then fell into madness and ran around. But soon, its feathers began to fall off piece by piece, and soon it fell down and crashed to death on the rock on the top of the mountain.
Yuan Tiangang, who silently watched all this, shook his head and sighed silently.
"Still not working?"
Chi Yao naturally understood such an obvious result and sighed helplessly.
When he was refining this pot of elixir, he felt very smooth, and even had a sense of clarity. He thought it would be a great success, but he didn't expect...
"No, this time it is barely a success."
Yuan Tiangang's hoarse voice made Chi Yao's slightly depressed expression freeze, and then turned into ecstasy.
"real?!"
"Of course, how could I lie to you?"
"Then why did this sparrow die? It was so miserable?" Chi Yao pointed to the mass of blood and flesh on the ground next to him with some confusion.
"This violent blood pill relies on accelerating the blood flow in the body of the person who takes the medicine to provide explosive support. Naturally, a mere bird cannot resist it."
Yuan Tiangang said matter-of-factly.
"So, I can finally learn how to make the next pill?"
Chi Yao asked.
Yuan Tiangang nodded slightly, shook his hand and threw over a piece of silk. A line of small words on the top clearly read - elixir!
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After the Tianshan incident, Chi Yao was not in a hurry to go back to Twelve Cave. Although he could enjoy imperial treatment there, everything in Twelve Cave had basically been squeezed dry. Now there is nothing but inexhaustible supply.
Apart from the bloody maple leaves, there was nothing particularly attractive to him.
But Yuan Tiangang is different here. In addition to the elixir that he is obsessed with, Chi Yao is also very interested in the knowledge of stargazing, divination and alchemy that the other party has.
Yuan Tiangang is not stingy about these things. If one wants to learn, the other is willing to teach.
However, whether it was divination or alchemy, they couldn't stay in the underground palace to practice completely, so the two embarked on a wandering journey.
White mountains and black waters, solitary smoke in the desert, hills and rainforests, sunsets over long rivers, and blue seas...
In a few years, the two of them traveled almost all over China, covering mountains, valleys, rivers and plains.
Today, Chi Yao's alchemy skills were finally recognized by Yuan Tiangang, and he was able to pass on the recipe for the elixir.
But looking at the medicinal materials listed above, Chi Yao's expression was a bit unbelievable.
That's not to say that those medicinal materials are not precious or rare. In fact, they are rare and precious medicines. But even if the alchemy can stimulate the power of the medicine ten times or a hundred times, it is difficult for him to imagine that they alone can make people live forever.
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You know, that is eternal life!
After coming into contact with Chi You's blood in Twelve Cave, Chi Yao originally thought that the main ingredient in this elixir would be a similar or higher level legendary item!
I didn't expect that it was done by relying on these mortal objects. Is alchemy really so good at turning decay into magic?
Seemingly sensing Chi Yao's doubts, Yuan Tiangang smiled and said, "Why, do you think this prescription is too simple?"
"...It's not that simple. How should I put it? It just feels a bit too ordinary."
Chi Yao said bluntly, "I thought that even if there is no dragon blood and phoenix marrow in it, at least something of the same level must be added, right?"
"Haha, it seems that your alchemy skills are not in vain."
Yuan Tiangang took two steps and explained, "We also have rules for alchemy. Whatever materials we use will have corresponding functions, and we can't make something out of nothing. You are right, you can't live forever just by relying on those things.
, because this elixir recipe lacks one of the most important main ingredients, even His Majesty Taizong and Li Chunfeng did not know the main ingredient back then!"
"Oh? Even Li Chunfeng doesn't know?"
Chi Yao was a little surprised. Li Shimin didn't know it was normal. After all, he didn't know how to make alchemy and it was easy to hide it. But Li Chunfeng was not inferior to Yuan Tiangang's great warlock. The two of them had a close personal relationship. It was really not easy to hide this.
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And think about it from another angle, this elixir was obviously refined under the emperor's instructions, but the raw materials were kept hidden from the emperor. This shows that Yuan Tiangang is not sure whether the emperor who knows the main ingredients will agree to continue to refine it.
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What is it that can make the emperor waver in the face of immortality?
"It's the emperor's dragon spirit, or in other words, the destiny of the country."
Yuan Tiangang's voice became deeper, "It is precisely because of it that this elixir is worthy of its name. And strictly speaking, the person who takes the medicine is not completely immune to death, it just becomes the same as the country.
When the Tang Dynasty is here, people are here; when the Tang Dynasty is gone, people are here!"
It turns out it’s just a fake elixir...
Chi Yao was a little disappointed when he heard this, but he understood what Yuan Tiangang was thinking at that time:
"So you were worried that Li Shimin would not agree to risk the national destiny of the Tang Dynasty, so you hid it?"
"Yes, His Majesty Taizong is one of the few wise emperors and saints. His obsession with immortality is not that deep. He would most likely not agree to sacrificing the fortune of the Tang Dynasty just to verify an elixir recipe that he did not know to be true or false.
of."
Until now, Yuan Tiangang still looks respectful and respectful when talking about Li Shimin.
Chi Yao actually believed Yuan Tiangang's statement that Li Shimin was not obsessed with immortality.
Because even though the elixir that Yuan Tiangang refined three hundred years ago has many disadvantages, such as disfigurement, loss of taste, etc., it seems miserable. But for people who are obsessed with immortality, these disadvantages are not
Totally intolerable.
Disfigurement is just a bit uglier. Anyway, the appearance is just skin.
Without the sense of taste, you will not be able to enjoy the delicacies of mountains and seas. This will indeed make life lose a lot of fun, but is it really just waiting to persuade someone who is determined to pursue immortality?
This is actually a matter of comparison and measurement.
On one end of the scale, immortality is disfigured and loses the sense of taste, and on the other end, everything is normal. After weighing the balance, there are definitely people who will choose immortality. If they don't choose it, it is because immortality is not attractive enough to them.
There is no doubt that Li Shimin is probably such a person.
If it were Qin Shihuang...
Will the ending be different?
"You are still alive now, which means that the Tang Dynasty's national destiny has not been exhausted, but how much is left, and is it enough to make elixirs?"
Chi Yao was a little worried, "And since it depends on the supply of longevity from the country, is there an upper limit to this supply?"