Nine Lamps and Goodness

Two wondrous fruits, one for immortality, the other for strength.
After swallowing them, Chu Ning traveled to another world to cultivate the path of immortality.
Within a thousand years, Chu Ning said, "Thanks to the wondrous fruit, praise the wondrous fruit, brother awesome."
A thousand years later, Chu Ning reflected, "Thank oneself, praise oneself, the struggle is the most beautiful."
In this other world, Chu Ning had three famous sayings:
The first, "Not driven by profit, one may miss some opportunities, but will never suffer a loss."
Secondly, "longevity is just about living a life, so why not take life seriously from the beginning."
Thirdly, "if you can get along, you can get along. If you can't get along, you can negotiate. If you can't negotiate, you should kill someone in the downwind of the wind, this way, the ashes can be scattered cleaner…"

I Just Want Outlive You, Don't Force Me to Beat You to Death

The key issue was that no reason could be found.


Sometimes, even when something felt amiss, the elixir still turned out successful, and could even burst forth with a high-grade quality.


Although this was a low-probability event, you couldn't rule it out, given the sheer number of elixirs an alchemist would produce in a lifetime; encountering it three or five times made people gradually accept this notion.


Of course, this probabilistic event referred to the production of elixirs of the same grade: a First Grade Alchemist making a First Grade Elixir, a Second Grade Alchemist making a Second Grade Elixir, there's no such mysticism about lowering one's realm to do so.


Bathing and burning incense, paying attention to the weather...


This had become a necessary procedure for many alchemists before they concocted some important elixirs.


Some extreme alchemists, it is said, even sought to bed virgins before alchemy.


Chapter 12: Old Hei, We Have Hope of Foundation Establishment_2