What is alchemy?

Many people's understanding of this issue is so simple that the alchemist disdains to say one more word to him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Many people, including some monks, believe that alchemy is nothing more than putting a few herbs into the elixir, calcining them with a different fire, controlling the fire with spiritual sense, and maximizing the effect of the herbs, so as to achieve the purpose of human absorption.

In fact, the fault is heaven. This understanding is the difference between true alchemy.

Alchemy is not a process of quantitative change, it is not simply to maximize the effect of those medicinal materials, so that human beings can still absorb the medicinal properties in them, what it needs to do is to achieve qualitative change.

What is a qualitative change? It is no longer the same thing.

Yu Yu likes alchemy, which is also related to some of his experiences in his previous life. He is familiar with history and is interested in archaeology and other subjects, but also because of his work, he knows some secrets that outsiders do not know.

For example, in the last life, there were occasional ancient tombs that were excavated, and there was a mysterious liquid in the tomb, which lasted for thousands of years and did not deteriorate, and once opened, the fragrance was fragrant. It is scientifically impossible to verify its composition.

What does it mean to be unverifiable with an ingredient? It's that it's not something in that world.

Herein lies the problem. Why is it possible to find something in a world that is not of this world? Where does it come from?

In ancient China, there was alchemy very early, and some people called it the art of yellow and white, but in fact, this is a partial generalization, which is not accurate.

Although it is not accurate, it is necessary to explain the art of yellow and white, otherwise the problem cannot be explained. The so-called yellow and white art, as the folk saying goes, is that it turns stones into gold. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, and this understanding mistakes an alchemy for a spell.

The so-called yellow and white art is to borrow something of lower value and refine it into gold and silver. In order for the Taoist family to survive, that is, to cultivate the Tao.

Because the Taoists had no source of income, and the later Buddhists had a lot of land, the monks did not worry about eating. Many Taoist temples have never had this kind of treatment, and can only support themselves.

If you think this method is nonsense, then you have a shallow understanding. Yu Yu clearly knew that in the previous life in China, until the Republic of China, there were Taoist masters who were still alchemizing, and this person did confirm one thing: from brass, gold can be refined!

Brass turns into gold, which is called qualitative change.

Unfortunately, although he proved that brass can be smelted into gold, its costs and benefits are not proportional. The investment is too big, the benefit is too small, but the qualitative change is no problem.

This kind of yellow and white technique illustrates the magic of alchemy from one side.

The art of refining the outer pill has been popular as early as the Warring States Period, and it is rumored that the first emperor Yingzheng died after taking the pill, whether this matter is true or not, but it also shows the fact that the alchemy at that time was recognized by the vast majority of upper-class figures.

If they really die as soon as they eat it, they will go back to eat?

However, the Wai Dan still ended up in decline because he often ate the dead, and gradually the Daomen became popular in refining the Nei Dan, among which the representative figure was Zhang Sanfeng was the most widely known.

In fact, Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was still taking pills, and some people even rumored that his son, Yongzheng, who later became the emperor, actually died by taking pills.

However, why does it eat the dead, and even smart people like Kangxi and Yongzheng are eating? The answer is self-evident.

Pills, not everyone can take them. Ordinary people will die if they eat it, and those who can eat it will no longer be ordinary people.

There is a doorway here, and if you simply extrapolate with common sense, then the door to the truth will be closed to you. At that time, alchemy was not a medicinal material.

This is completely different from the world that Yu Yu knows now. At that time, alchemy was not about putting ginseng, deer antler velvet and other rare medicinal materials into the Dan furnace for refining.

And what they put into the furnace was gold and stone. What is gold and stone? Simply put, it is ore. Why can you alchemy, people at that time believed that everything has essence, and essence is divided into yin and yang, and in a certain way, the harmony of yin and yang can make people benefit immensely, and even achieve the purpose of immortality and ascension.

Although this incident itself has been criticized and even ridiculed by later generations, it is not possible to hastily determine the authenticity, this is Yu Yu's understanding. After coming to this life, seeing the inheritance left by the ancient alchemist, he had a strong interest in alchemy, which was very related to his previous experience, otherwise he would not have spent all his efforts to study this kind of thing that could not increase his combat power over the years.

The alchemy theory of this life is naturally completely different from his understanding in the previous life, but the purpose to be achieved is, to a certain extent, still the same.

It is to artificially force qualitative change. For example, these medicinal materials seen now, except for the main medicine, which is slightly difficult to find, are all big road goods, which are very common, and you can buy a large number of them at any monk's medicine stall.

But whether it is the main medicine or the auxiliary medicinal materials, no matter how much you eat, it is impossible to achieve the effect of cutting hair and washing the marrow, but after the hands of the alchemist, put them together, put them into the Dan furnace, and go through a certain procedure, you can get the fragrant elixir that cuts the hair and washes the marrow.

The process is extremely complicated and difficult, and if you make any mistakes, you will either fry, or you will end up with a black lump of, like a piece of.

It has to put these dozens of medicinal materials into the Dan furnace in different orders, and each time the medicine is released, the heat is different. When each herb is administered, the position controlled by spiritual consciousness in the Dan furnace is also completely different.

It is also necessary to use spiritual consciousness to control the degree of refining of other medicines, the situation of those drugs that have already been fused, and so on. And then the hardest one is Cheng Dan.

How can these things be glued together and refined into an elixir, but also ensure that it can have considerable effects. That's not all, a clever alchemist can produce nine in one furnace, and the worst can only produce one.

The quantity of a serving of medicinal herbs is very objective. Therefore, it can produce nine pills, of course, it can achieve this result, which is basically rare, that is, Yu Yu, or the three alchemy masters present who can almost be called holy hands, they don't dare to say that a furnace of pills can be refined into a few pills, and it is good to be able to come out.

It's time to show what you're capable of. At the same time, the other monks in the pavilion were also eye-opening at this time. The alchemists who can come to this conference are all the top alchemists in the world.

They all have strange fires in their bodies.

When many alchemists finished sorting medicinal materials and began to administer medicines, fires broke out, and all kinds of strange fires appeared. Colorful, all kinds, Mu Feng who watched it smashed his mouth again and again, and was greatly envious.

The sword elder on the side heard the sound of him smashing his mouth, looked up at him, and said with a smile, "What's the matter, envy?"

Mu Feng scratched his head, "That, I think they're good." ”

Jian Lao smiled, "On such an occasion, there are so many people, and they are all extraordinary, it is normal for you to feel this way, when I participated in this Danwang Conference for the first time, I was even more shocked than you!"