I'm invested, I'll find out soon," he thought as he sensed his imprint on an unfortunate small-time thug.
As Austin entered, his mother got out and pulled him to the inner workspace where alchemic furnaces and herbs were preserved, "Your Father told me via his soul sense that you mastered sword intent and that you came to finally master alchemy. I wonder what took you so long?" she asked, suspicion shimmering in her intriguing gaze. He shuddered," I took the longer route since I was still mastering sword intent and soul sense, but here I am, and I am so excited to finally master the ultimate alchemical formula.
"Alright, I won't pry too much, but you're too young to hunt magical beasts or any beasts for that matter, so sharpening sword intent will have to wait for a decade. She ordered, her words carrying a tone of finality. He did not argue since his mother would just dismiss him and his siblings who were spying outside, let out gasps. She finally sat with him and passed him a talisman, which had an alchemical formula recorded in it. He sent his soul sense into it and was shocked by the content, as he did not expect this kind of technique in the mortal realm, which he thought was mediocre.
Elena, seeing his reaction, let out a smile and said," This is the ultimate alchemical formula, using nature to benefit the living, trapping a small pure essence of nature to a pill using the hottest flame essence and the coldest one to pursue extremes using Yang and Yin flowers and flames, and when harmony is achieved, the pill is refined.
He had been surprised almost thrice today, as if the curtains were finally unfolding after he started investigating. "Your brother only mastered the hottest yang flower and flame refining a good yang pill, and your sister the yin pill, but I have a hunch you could refine the yin-yang pill like me and take over this alchemy shop".He broke out of his trance after his mother said that but this only raised alarm bells as this only raised a lot of questions regarding the origin of this "mortal mother".He even used his soul essence to probe his mother, and aside from fifth-level talismans in her pockets, she was a third -level cultivato,r albeit rich in mana.