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."
