Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

After returning from God’s Domain, Alex began focusing almost all of his time on one of two things. He was either helping Momo with her alchemy lessons, or he was busy improving the two Provenance Duality techniques.

Everything else was something for him to do when he was bored, which included his Blood Origin.

It was clear that he was going to need a lot of time to improve his regular Origin, so there was no point in rushing into Blood Origin at all. It was already coming along pretty well anyway.

Momo’s alchemy training was back in full force from what Alex had left her an entire decade ago. Her knowledge had improved from her self-training, but there were many important things that training alone wouldn’t help her with.

There was a list of things Alex needed to help Momo with, even before helping her with alchemy. She needed an upgrade to her abilities at a fundamental level.

It was time to help improve her spiritual roots.

Momo had a total of 5 spiritual roots: Fire, Wood, Earth, Yin, and Yang. Her Yang and Fire roots were quite weak, but the other ones were decent. So he needed to drastically improve those two weak roots, and then improve the other ones by a minor amount.

These pills were things he had made when he was only a Saint, so making those pills again required only ingredients, which he easily got.

The only root he didn’t help her improve through pills was her Fire root, which used the Flame Mastery Scripture’s technique to use fire treasures to improve itself.

With Silvermist’s help, Alex managed to gather all of the treasures. While he had asked for these, Silvermist let Alex know something interesting.

“There are some sects that help improve their disciples’ spiritual roots through formations. If you want to, I can take you to a place to get them improved,” he said.

“Oh, that can be done?” Alex asked. “I assume it’s costly.”

“It’s… alright,” Silvermist said. “The only real cost is the treasures you have to find to improve your spiritual root. Is there any of your spiritual roots you want to improve?”

Alex thought for a bit. “Yes,” he said in the end. “My Wood spiritual root is rather weak compared to the rest, Master. I haven’t even managed to learn the Wood Dao yet. It would be great if I could improve it.”

Silvermist was slightly taken aback. “You want to improve your spiritual root because you haven’t learned a Dao? That’s your only motivation?” he asked.

Alex shrugged. “I can’t think of anything else I would need it for,” he said. “Learning the Dao would help me in alchemy, and that’s honestly what I really care about.”

“What about your cultivation or your techniques?” Silvermist asked.

“My other roots are good enough for that. Improving my Wood root wouldn’t make much of a difference there,” Alex told him.

“Alright then,” Silvermist said. “I will see how much Wood treasures I can gather. The more I gather, the better it will be.”

Alex nodded. He thought of something just then and asked, “Master, how would you improve a root that has been more or less destroyed?”

“Destroyed?” Silvermist asked. “I don’t believe anything can be done if it is destroyed. What sort of destruction are we talking about?”

“Like all the power within the root was used up for a single attack. I don’t know how to explain it, but all that’s remained now is only a husk,” Alex said.

Silvermist shook his head. “I have never dealt with something like that, so I cannot tell. Is it one of your roots?” he asked.

“No, it’s Pearl’s,” Alex said. “I’m trying to find a way to help him, but I can’t see anything I could do.”

Silvermist thought for a moment and shook his head again. “If there was anything that could be done, it would be for a wounded spiritual root. For one that’s completely dead, I don’t believe anything can be done.”

“I see,” Alex said, feeling dejected. “Thank you for the help anyway, Master.”

Silvermist patted him on the arm. “I’ll get all of these ingredients you’re asking for. Focus on yourself and on teaching Momo.”

Alex watched Silvermist leave and sighed. He knew Silvermist was wrong about what he had said. He had to be. Bai Jingshen had managed to bring back Pearl’s spiritual root from the point when it couldn’t be healed. His Wood roots had to be the same, but…

‘That was thanks to White Tiger’s blood, wasn’t it?’ he thought. He knew that to be the case. He always had. Still, he wanted to learn if there was a different way.

Given that his master didn’t know, Alex might have to give up on that idea.

‘No, I’ll think about it later,’ he thought. ‘Nothing should be impossible. If even the dead can be brought back to life, a simple spiritual root should be no different.’

Thinking as much, Alex got back to his regular schedule.

Silvermist got him his ingredients a few days later. The Wood treasures for his spiritual root, however, would take a while longer.

Alex got to making the pills for Momo, but he made something extra as well. Momo ate the 4 pills to improve her other roots, and then used the Fire treasures to improve her Fire root.

Once she was done, Alex presented her with a jar full of vile-smelling paste.

“What… is this?” Momo asked, confused at the sight and smell of what lay before her.

“It’s for your eyes,” Alex said.

“My eyes?” she asked, even more confused.

“You put the paste in your eyes and let your eyes absorb the medicinal effects of it,” Alex told her.

“Medicinal effects? This?” she asked. “I’m to put this in my eyes, Master?”

“Yes,” Alex said. “Don’t get distracted by the sight and smell. Good things don’t always come in a pretty package. Here, apply this around your eyes. You will go blind for about 2 years while you apply it every month. But once you do so, your eyes will evolve and be capable of using a technique known as the Demon Eyes.”