Legendary Librarian System-Chapter 111: Learning Alchemy Intent

Liu Wei continued to read.

"At this state, Master Wen Ruo has learned External Pill Circulation.

Normally, alchemists treat a pill as a product they manufacture. They force ingredients together with fire, pressure, and techniques. But Wen Ruo treats the cauldron like a living body and the ingredients like its organs, so instead of forcing them to merge, he cultivates them, guiding them like how a cultivator guides qi through their meridians.

He guides the essence the same way he guides internal qi circulation during martial cultivation.

He doesn’t push. He redirects.

He doesn’t control the flame. The flame follows his intent.

He lets the essences merge step by step, like meridian flows.

As a result, the ingredients merge naturally. They become a pill willingly, not forcibly.

The impurities were expelled like toxins.

There is a near-zero risk of explosion or waste.

He said, "I did not refine the pill. I helped it grow."

Liu Wei took quite a long time to understand what External Pill Circulation was.

It simply means the way Master Wen Ruo refined the pill, he was not making it, but rather birth it.

The External Pill Circulation simply showed the process of Master Wen Ruo concocting the pills.

Liu Wei continued to read.

"The last core effect according to Master Wen Ruo is the Intent-Born Pill Vitality.

He claimed that pills produced under his Intent gain a trace of internal life force, similar to a martial artist’s tempered organs.

As a result, the pills pulse faintly with vitality like newborn life.

Some pills he produced slowly evolve and improve when stored properly.

The best of them all, is how healing pills feel "warm and living" upon ingestion.

He said, "A pill without life is merely medicine. A pill with life is a cultivator’s companion."

Liu Wei fell into deep thought. The Intent-Born Pill Vitality made him recall about the pill apotheosis.

The Vitality Recovery Pill was now in his storage ring as it was also stored in the jade storage that the Master Alchemist willingly provided.

Although he did not use Alchemy Intent for the Pill Apotheosis to achieve, he was still able to give life to the pill, making him wonder if he would be able to achieve the purity higher than Pill Apotheosis with the Alchemy Intent.

However, Liu Wei soon shook his head and understood that the perfect purity was already at its peak, there was no higher than that.

Perhaps, with the Alchemy Intent, he would be able to concoct more mortal grade pills without activating his primary meridian points.

Furthermore, human grade pills, in order to manifest the pill apotheosis, might require alchemy intent.

Liu Wei tossed the unnecessary thoughts at the back of his head and patiently waited to assimilate what he had just learned.

Half of an incense stick later, he slowly opened his eyes and mumbled, "True alchemy is not the refinement of objects, but the continuation of my cultivation path... refining the world as I refine myself." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

He then heard Cai Hui gasping in shock.

He gazed at her and smiled.

"Am I correct?"

"B-But how?"

Cai Hui had so many questions in her mind but limited it to two words.

Cai Hui already had an idea. Her Big Brother Liu Wei learned what she learned after returning the book and by paying the middle-grade spirit stone.

That was the closer assumption she believed was true.

However, there was still a major question, "How?"

It was simply inhumane in the world that normality was already considered as ambiguous.

She gazed intently at her Big Brother Liu Wei, but she was disappointed to receive a head shake, refusing to answer her question.

Liu Wei replied, "I understand now why you want to learn Master Wen Ruo’s cultivation method. If you learn other cultivation methods, you are afraid that you won’t progress in the Dao of Alchemy, right?"

Cai Hui instantly nodded.

Liu Wei nodded and replied, "If that is the case, you don’t have to worry. In fact, I’m cultivating Master Wen Ruo’s cultivation method."

Cai Hui’s eyes widened.

However, at this point, it also makes her unable to process her thoughts fully.

She had so many inquiries of how her Big Brother Liu Wei suddenly learned what she learned after simply returning the book and by paying for it, and yet she wanted to learn more about Master Wen Ruo’s cultivation method at this moment.

She already felt a headache wrapping her head, causing her to massage her temple, and simply waited for her Big Brother Liu Wei to continue the conversation.

Liu Wei said, "However, I’m not sure if you can also learn martial arts with his cultivation method. I think it’s better if you stay loyal to the alchemy discipline alone."

In fact, Liu Wei never planned to learn martial arts with Master Wen Ruo’s cultivation method. After all, it was only in the beginning that Master Wen Ruo utilized alchemy as a means to grow stronger.

Later on, he developed his Verdant Cauldron Sutra in a way that he uniquely refined pills internally and birthed pills that benefit others.

Liu Wei believed that the Sword Intent and Killing Intent was sufficient to drive the opponents away. If they were stronger than that... then, he would be forced to circulate his Blood Demonheart Sutra and simply make sure there would be no one alive to know his secret.

Cai Hui, when she heard her Big Brother Liu Wei’s suggestion, she nodded.

She was not interested in martial arts to begin with, she simply wanted to venture in the alchemy path.

Liu Wei stared at her and smiled, letting her process her thoughts fully.

At the same time, the System’s voice echoed in his head.

[It has been detected that a single middle-grade spirit stone is in your hand.

The middle-grade spirit stone is recognized as a currency to pay the debt of borrowing a minor completion level in Dao of Alchemy book.

The middle-grade spirit stone is being converted into System Points...

Congratulations, you only now have 620 System Points in debt.]

Liu Wei frowned when he perceived the sarcastic System suddenly returned.