Dew of Mount Di

The myths speak of only one substance being able to prolong life and permanently defeat death. It is said in the legends that there was only one mortal that the gods took pity upon when they saw his body fail him and deteriorate. They cried and cried, their tears descending like divine pearls, covering the ground all around him, where a fox spirit warmed them with its fiery fur until it desolved into a clear liquid which he could drink and regain the strength of his youth. He was granted a second chance at life.

However, the myth does not confirm who this mortal was supposed to be - several temples across the land claim that it was their founder who was this (im)mortal man, drinking the sadness of the gods and living his second life with the utmost devotion, spreading compassion and healing to whomever came seeking it before his temple gates.

Some scholar presume the myth is a metaphorical retelling of instructions about how to create a potion of universal healing and that the dew of the mountain is only the first of many ingredients that is then necessary to go through a specific heating process that has been described as this fox spirit. There have been fragments found of different versions of this myth, but all of them have been written down or inscribed into stones centuries after this story supposedly took place.

The need to find a cure for all sorts of ailments, including old age and death, has sparked an interest among many who have devoted their existence to alchemical experiments with rare substances that can be found in the most remote parts of nature in the hope of unclocking the key to longetivity.

So far it does not seem that anyone has been able to replicate and fully confirm that this myth was based in reality and that it is indeed possible to cheat death in some way.