Vol 3 Chapter 1429: What is alchemy

What is alchemy
Many people's understanding of this question is so simple that the alchemist disdains to say one more word to him. Many people in Xinqi Chinese, including some monks, think that alchemy is nothing more than putting a few medicinal materials into the pill, calcining with different fire, controlling the fire with spiritual consciousness, and maximizing the effect of the medicinal materials, so as to achieve the purpose of human beings. .
In fact, the mistake went to heaven. This understanding and true alchemy is the difference between cloud and mud.
Alchemy is not a process of quantitative change. It is definitely not a simple process of maximizing the effects of those medicinal materials so that humans can still absorb the properties of them. What it needs to do is to achieve qualitative changes.
What is a qualitative change is that it is no longer the original 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 very interested in archeology and other subjects. At the same time, because of his work, he knows some secrets that outsiders don't know.
For example, in the last life, an ancient tomb was occasionally excavated, and a mysterious liquid was born in the tomb. This liquid is not bad after thousands of years, and once opened, it smells good. Scientifically, its composition cannot be verified.
What is an unverifiable ingredient is that it is not something in that world.
That's the problem. Why can I find something that does not belong to this world in a world where it comes from
In ancient China, the technique of alchemy was known for a long time, and some people called it the technique of yellow and white. In fact, this is a generalization and is not accurate.
Although it is not accurate, I still have to explain the technique of yellow and white, otherwise the problem cannot be explained. The so-called "Yellow and White" is a folk saying that it means turning stones into gold. In fact, this is a wrong understanding, this understanding mistakenly recognizes a kind of alchemy as a spell.
The so-called yellow and white technique is to borrow things of lower value and refine them into gold and silver. So that the Taoist family can survive, that is, to cultivate the Tao.
Because Taoism had no source of income, and later Buddhism had more real estate, the monks were not worried about food. Many Taoist temples have never had this kind of treatment and can only support themselves.
If you think this approach is nonsense, then you have a shallow understanding. Yu Yu clearly knows that in the China where he lived in the last life, until the Republic of China, a Taoist expert was still making alchemy, and this person really confirmed one thing: from brass, gold can be made
The change of brass to gold is called qualitative change.
It is a pity that although he proved that brass can produce gold, its costs and benefits are not proportional. The investment is too large and the return 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 technique of refining outer alchemy has been popular as early as the Warring States period. It is rumored that the first emperor Yingzheng died after taking the pill. Whether this matter is true or false, it also reveals the fact that the alchemy at that time was obtained Approved by most upper-level figures.
If they really eat it and die, they will eat it and Yingzheng will eat it.
However, the outer alchemy was ultimately in decline because of often eating dead people. Gradually, the practice of refining inner alchemy became popular. Among them, Zhang Sanfeng was the most well-known representative.
In fact, Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty was still taking pill, and it is even more rumored that his son, the Yongzheng who later became emperor, actually took pill to death.
However, why it will eat dead people, and knowing that it can eat dead people, there are people who eat even as smart as Kangxi, Yongzheng is eating the answer is self-explanatory.
Not everyone can eat pill. Ordinary people die if they eat, and those who can eat are no longer ordinary people.
There are ways here. If you simply use common sense to infer, then the door of truth will be closed for you. The alchemy at that time was not medicine.
This is completely different from the world Yu Yu knows now. At that time, alchemy was not about ginseng, antler and other rare medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace.
What they put into the pill furnace is gold stone. What is gold and stone is simply ore. Why can alchemy be made? People at that time believed that as long as everything has essence, essence is divided into yin and yang, and in a certain way, the harmony of yin and yang can make people benefit infinitely, and even achieve immortality and soar in the day. the goal of.
Although this matter itself was often criticized and even ridiculed by later generations, it was impossible to determine the authenticity hastily. This was Yu Yu's knowledge. After coming to this life, he saw the inheritance left by the ancient alchemist, and he became very interested in alchemy, which was closely related to his previous experience. Otherwise, he would not spend his efforts to study this kind of inability in these years. Something to increase combat power.
The alchemy theory in this life is naturally completely different from his understanding in the previous life, but the goal to be achieved is, to some extent, the same.
It is the man-made forcible realization of qualitative change. For example, these medicinal materials that I see now, except for the main medicine, which is a little hard to find, the others are very common and can be bought at a monk's medicine stall.
But no matter whether it is the main medicine or the auxiliary medicine, no matter how much you eat, it is impossible to achieve the effect of cutting hair and washing the marrow, but through the hands of the alchemist, put them together, put them into the pill furnace, and go through a certain procedure. You can get a scented pill that cuts the hair and washes the marrow.
This process is extremely complicated and difficult. Any step wrong, either from the fryer or when you get out of the oven, you get a mass of black mottle, like a pile of shit.
It needs to put these dozens of medicinal materials into the pill furnace in a different order, and the fire conditions are different each time the medicine is put. When each medicine is administered, the position controlled by spiritual consciousness in the pill furnace is absolutely different.
It is also necessary to control the degree of refinement of other drugs with spiritual consciousness, the situation of those drugs that have been fused, and so on. Then the hardest thing is Cheng Dan.
How can these things be glued together and made into a pill, but also to ensure that it can have a considerable effect. That's not even a big deal. A clever alchemist can produce nine pills in one batch, and the worst one can only produce one.
The quantity of a medicinal material is very objective. So it can produce nine, and of course it can achieve this result. It is basically rare, Yu Yu, or the three alchemy masters who can be called holy hands~EbookFREE.me~ They dare not. It is not bad to say that a furnace of pill refining has a few functions.
The time has come to show your ability. At the same time, the other monks in the pavilion opened their eyes. Alchemists who can come to participate in this conference are all the top alchemists in the world.
They all have strange fire in their bodies.
When many alchemists finished sorting the medicinal materials, started to inject them, and caught fire, all kinds of abnormal fires appeared one after another. Colorful and varied, Mu Feng looked at him again and again, greatly envied.
Mr. Jian on the side heard the sound of his smashing mouth, looked up at him, and smiled, "What's wrong, envy?"
Mu Feng scratched his head, "Well, I think they are amazing."
Old Jian smiled, "Under such an occasion, so many people, and they are all extraordinary people. It is normal for you to feel this way. When I first participated in this Dan King conference that year, I was more shocked than you."
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