If you could understand the initial appearance of the dark, grayish-black part, which resembled the bottom of a pot, after all, this was a cauldron!
Perhaps the heat wasn't properly controlled during the refining of the elixir, causing it to become a waste product, ultimately turning into something like soot from the bottom of a pot.
But what about that milky white area?
Even after racking my brains dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of times, I still can't figure out the reason!
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Then, Ye Ying, full of humility, playfully pretended to respectfully ask Teacher Ji Wuchen for guidance: "Teacher Ji, you are well-read and knowledgeable, and you must know more than us ordinary people."
I would like to venture to ask you this: in your vast and boundless memory, have you ever witnessed such a strange sight? Or have you ever heard of anything similar...?
Ji Wuchen nodded slightly, then slowly shook his head, and said to Ye Ying in a deep and earnest tone, "I have not seen it with my own eyes... The world is vast, and all sorts of strange things happen. Ying'er, I am not omniscient..."
No one is omniscient or omnipotent, or knows everything...
“Okay…”, a hint of disappointment appeared in Ye Ying’s eyes.
At this moment, Ye Ying and Teacher Ji Wuchen looked at each other, speechless.
The milky white area in front of me was like a mystery, leaving me completely baffled.
They couldn't help but speculate about the origin of this milky white substance. Could it be some kind of rare and special mineral?
Or perhaps it's a unique material added during the refining of elixirs?
However, no matter how hard one racks one's brains to speculate, it is ultimately difficult to find a definitive answer.
(In other words, no matter how much you guess, you can't give a definite answer.)
Just then, as if he had discovered something extraordinary, Ji Wuchen stared intently at an extremely fine engraving inside the cauldron and called out excitedly, "Ying'er, come here quickly... look at this!"
Upon hearing Ji Wuchen's call, Ye Ying dared not delay in the slightest. She hurriedly walked to the edge of the cauldron and looked in the direction Ji Wuchen pointed.
Sure enough, there was a row of extremely small characters carved on the inner wall of the cauldron. However, due to the passage of time, the characters had become extremely blurry, and it was difficult to detect their existence without careful observation.
So the two of them bent down and pressed their faces close to the cauldron, then squinted and tried to make out the details.
After a difficult process of deciphering, I finally managed to make out what the text actually said.
"The secret to milky white color is neither fire nor water, but the essence of heaven and earth."
Upon seeing these words, Ye Ying couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "I never expected that this milky-white substance would be anything but ordinary, but rather an essence derived from heaven and earth. All our previous guesses were probably wrong!"
Ji Wuchen nodded in deep agreement with Ye Ying's words, and at the same time, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind:
"Perhaps this milky-white, mysterious substance is actually a special type of ore? It might have undergone a wondrous interaction with the heat during the alchemy process, resulting in such a strange and unique transformation. And this transformation could very well be the most crucial step in successfully refining a rare and precious elixir!"
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