Chapter 2170 — The Rookie Genius?
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"So that's how it is..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly again and again. He had not held out much hope to begin with; after all, he knew his cultivation method was rather unusual, and it was already quite good enough to have a cheat in other respects. If he also expected to refine pills, would he not be an all-round genius?
"My cultivation method should be of the extreme-yang kind, leaning toward fire—after all, my martial techniques are fire-attribute too, and the attributes within my body should likewise suit fire. So perhaps what I lack is the wood attribute?" Wei Zhao mused, then asked.
"That is not it either!" Chief Bai shook his head in denial. "A constitution of pure fire attribute can also become an alchemist. On the contrary, because the body's attribute is singular, the pill fire one condenses is all the purer and easier to control—there is no such thing as your case, where changing the fire's force and temperature puts it out! Cultivators with such a constitution reach great heights in the art of pill fire, yet they still cannot become outstanding alchemists."
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. "A single-attribute cultivator can become an alchemist too?"
"Indeed. But such alchemists suffer a fatal flaw: without the wood attribute in their bodies, they cannot sense the state of the pill in the cauldron at any moment, and cannot adjust the pill fire's force and temperature by feel. So alchemists of this kind can only rely on long practice to master a few pill recipes," Chief Bai said. "Even so, their success rate is very low, and the pills they can refine are of poor quality and low grade. Hence many such alchemists treat alchemy as a side pursuit and never delve deeper into it..."
"This..." Hearing Chief Bai's words, Wei Zhao suddenly thought of Han Jingyi! Her mastery of pill-fire control was extremely high, yet her sensing ability was poor—scarcely worth mentioning at all. Could Han Jingyi be one of these?
Only, what Chief Bai called a rather inept alchemist had become, in Han Jingyi's case, a heaven-defying genius! Only a genius girl like Han Jingyi could have devised some sort of scientific alchemy method, using scientific calculation to make up for her deficient sensing ability!
And the converted scientific formulas proved even more precise than sensing! However formidable one's sensing might be, it still erred now and then—unless one were a truly exceptional alchemist with extraordinarily powerful spiritual sense. Otherwise, no one could match Han Jingyi!
Having reasoned this out, Wei Zhao also understood why Han Jingyi was so effortlessly at home in pill-fire control. Yet Han Jingyi had actually made up for her defect—her intelligence was truly astonishing. She looked like a silly little thing, but her wits were not the least bit dull.
Could this be what people meant by the way geniuses are idiots in the affairs of daily life? It was well known that many geniuses behaved in ways utterly unbefitting a genius in other respects, yet possessed astonishingly high intelligence. Wei Zhao wondered whether Han Jingyi belonged to that category.
"So you do not belong to that category. But if your body lacks the fire attribute, and yet you can condense pill fire, that is truly strange," Chief Bai said. "Here, I have a notebook of an alchemist's reflections..."