CHAPTER 110: ALCHEMY INTENT: HEART AS CAULDRON, FLAME AS WILL

Liu Wei firmly shook his head and replied, "One middle-grade spirit stone is enough really. The other four are meaningless to me. In fact, I don’t even know how to spend the ten middle-grade spirit stones I won."

Cai Hui was taken aback.

She was confused.

If that is the case, then why charge only one middle-grade spirit stone for a book that is worth more than that.

However, she was already aware that her Big Brother Liu Wei was an eccentric and enigmatic figure, to begin with.

Hence, she did not dwell on it and took out the book that contains the Minor Completion of Master Wen Ruo’s Dao of Alchemy and a single middle-grade spirit stone from her storage ring.

Liu Wei’s eyes were glued to the book. After all, he lacked alchemy intent, as his Dao of Alchemy was only at the initial understanding.

However, once he would receive the book, it would finally reach the Minor Completion stage.

Liu Wei did not dilly-dally and accepted the book first before the middle-grade spirit stone.

After all, with the amount of debt he has, a single middle-grade spirit stone was not enough.

The System’s voice then echoed in his head.

[You have completed the second phase of the mission: Raise an Alchemy Expert and You Will Become One.

You have been rewarded with all the knowledge containing Minor Completion of Dao of Alchemy authored by Master Wen Rou.

Please be prepared to receive the knowledge Cai Hui has accumulated from the past six months.]

Liu Wei then smiled.

While holding the book in his right hand and the middle-grade spirit stone in his left hand, he said to Cai Hui, "Cai Hui, will you do me a favor?"

Cai Hui was taken aback. She then tilted her head sideways and thought. This is quite familiar.

She then recalled the time when she returned the pill manual and paid a low-grade spirit stone to Liu Wei.

After that phenomenon, her Big Brother Liu Wei suddenly entered a state of trance, seemingly being enlightened out of nowhere.

She thought. Isn’t this too coincidental?

In the end, Cai Hui hastily tossed the unnecessary thoughts at the back of her head and quickly replied, "Yes, yes, Big Brother. What is it?"

Liu Wei chuckled and nodded.

"Please be quiet for a while."

Afterwards, Liu Wei sat in a lotus position and meditated.

Cai Hui could only stare at him in a daze.

T-This is... What is this? How is this even possible?

Cai Hui instantly thought that Liu Wei must be digesting the knowledge from the book because that was the only logical reason why he entered the enlightenment state.

However, he did not read the book once, she had just returned it.

She could not comprehend what was really happening.

Liu Wei, on the other hand, was beginning to understand what Cai Hui had comprehended and the essence of the book itself.

The title of the book was "Alchemy Intent: Heart as Cauldron, Flame as Will" authored by a once martial cultivator but then later called "the Living Cauldron."

In fact, Master Wen Ruo only earned the name Living Cauldron after the cauldron was born. It was to simply honor his unique way of concocting pills.

In the book, it was described how Master Wen Ruo comprehended the Minor Completion in the Dao of Alchemy.

"When Wen Ruo stepped into Minor Completion, he did not see a grand phenomenon of Heaven tearing open, nor spirit flames bowing. Instead, he claims his breakthrough felt exactly like a martial realm advancement — but turned outward.

He said, "I refined myself for decades. It was only natural that I learned to refine the world."

Thus, his Alchemy Intent manifested as the extension of his internal cultivation method. He did not create pills; he treated pills as external meridian cycles and ingredients as cultivable qi."

After reading how Master Wen Ruo was described from the book, he wondered if Cai Hui was surprised to know that an alchemist was once a martial artist.

Nevertheless, he decided he would ask later, as he focused on the core effects of Master Wen Ruo’s Alchemy Intent.

"Master Wen Ruo has manifested the Flame Resonance Will. At this state, Master Wen Ruo’s flame becomes a reflection of his martial intent. At the same time, it no longer obeys command, but it obeys conviction.

Hence, the temperature adjusts on its own based on desired outcome.

The flame intensity mirrors emotional clarity.

Impure emotions create unstable flame and calm will purify it.

Master Wen Ruo said, "The flame will never be stronger than the heart that feeds it."

Liu Wei finally understood how Cai Hui was able to achieve the pill resonance. Simply because of the flame resonance will.

As long as she was able to integrate her alchemy intent to the flame, even if it was not her own spiritual flames, it would have become alive and followed her will.

Liu Wei continued to read.

"Master Wen Ruo has also achieved the Essence-Sense Perception.

With the Essence-Sense Perception, he no longer "reads" ingredients. He feels them like qi circulating inside his own body.

As a result, whenever Master Wen Ruo tried to understand the herbs, the latter themselves reveal their innate "temperament", whether they were stubborn, mellow, fierce, and cowardly.

He could also sense which combination will harmonize or clash without calculation.

Furthermore, the ingredients would communicate with him their optimal refinement path.

Master Wen Ruo said, "I did not study herbs, I listened to them breathe.""

Liu Wei was intrigued. After all, Flame Resonance Will alone should not suffice for Cai Hui to achieve pill resonance. However, with the alchemy intent, Cai Hui actually learned Essence-Sense Perception.

Not only did the flames develop their own will and follow Cai Hui smoothly, even the herbs could communicate with her and provide her enough information to efficiently concoct the pill with better purity.

At this point, Liu Wei was now more looking forward to attaining the alchemy intent.