Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex met up with Pearl as quickly as he could after leaving his cultivation session. He found him in his room, off in another mountain, where he was cultivating to the best of his ability as well.

Pearl still hadn’t reached the Immortal Origin realm, but he was close. So very close. Alex believed that he would be able to do it before his next competition date.

He told Pearl about what he had done, explaining the reason behind his mysterious year-long cultivation session.

As Pearl heard those words, his eyes slowly widened.

“You… you have eight Origins?” Pearl asked.

Alex nodded fervently. “Yes. This technique is amazing, Pearl. Once you enter the Immortal Origin realm, I will give it to you as well.”

Pearl, still wide-eyed, began wondering how he could use such a thing. “I can have eight Origins too?” he asked.

“Maybe. Maybe less, maybe more. You will need to wait until you are in the Immortal Origin realm and find out on your own,” Alex said.

“I’ll look forward to it, brother,” Pearl said. “Does Whisker know?”

“Not yet,” Alex said. “But I don’t know if it matters for him. I don’t think he’ll be able to form a Creation, sadly. Even if he could, this technique works on humans, and he wouldn’t be able to use it as well.”

“Oh… that’s unfortunate,” Pearl said.

Alex sighed. “I wish I could give it to Sister and Ronron before they enter the Immortal Transcendent realm, but I don’t know if we are fast enough,” he said. “I’m afraid they have cultivated far more than us during these times.”

Pearl nodded. “What about Sister Scarlet, though?” he asked. “She won’t have cultivated so far.”

Alex thought for a bit and smiled. “That’s right. Scarlet should be able to use it. We just need to go to the Land of the Blessed Sun after we’ve met up with my family.”

Pearl nodded.

After talking with Pearl for a while, Alex returned to find Momo. He had ignored her for a year, so he needed to check up on her and see how she was doing.

Alex didn’t have much to teach Momo, so she was doing perfectly fine. She had broken through once again, it seemed, but aside from that, nothing much had changed.

Alex took some time to go through the lessons he had in mind before he got sucked into caring about this technique and taught her what he could. He also tested her, checking to see how much she had retained from what he had taught her.

Momo had truly learned everything Alex had taught her. The only things holding her back right now, aside from the very obscure knowledge of a few concepts of alchemy, were her cauldron, her Dao, and her technique.

The technique was something Alex could fix once the tournament was over. Her Dao was something she had to improve herself. So, all that remained was her cauldron.

The cauldron she used right now was one she had bought back at the start. He contemplated giving her one of the many cauldrons he had in his Soul Space, but after much thought, he decided to give her a new one.

Not just any new one. He decided to make her a new one.

After the training back in the Molten Hearth realm, Alex’s understanding of metal was quite high. He found the right types of metal that would work with Momo’s way of making pills.

The main metal was called Firesteel, something that was great at retaining heat and expelling it as needed. It was also great at not letting different auras get in or out so easily.

That meant energy inside the cauldron couldn’t get out, and if there were cases where Momo’s poison overpowered her physique, then the cauldron wouldn’t let that aura affect the pills either.

Once Alex gathered all the metal, he began making the cauldron.

He made the cauldron in a room repurposed for this task. He brought out his hammer and anvil, beating on the molten metal that was heated up with Memory.

As he beat down on the metal, he both refined it and compounded it at the same time. The massive-sized metal became smaller and smaller as time went on. Alex shaped the metal into a cauldron while it was still hot.

He was ready to quench it now, but there was something else that needed to be done beforehand—something that was the main reason why he made the cauldron in the first place instead of just buying one.

“Are you ready?” Alex asked, looking at the corner of the room where Momo stood with beads of sweat on her forehead. Despite being in the Saint realm, the heat of the room was getting to her.

She quickly nodded upon hearing Alex’s words and rushed toward him. She arrived right before the red-hot metal and pulled out her palms. “Master, are you sure I can do this?” she asked.

“I know you can. Just do as you were taught,” Alex said.

Momo nodded. She had a few practice rounds for this, but now was the main deal. She forced her Qi into the red-hot cauldron below her, pushing it into different shapes to form Qi lines as Alex had taught.

She tried her best and managed to form a pretty decent one.

“Now, the blood,” Alex said, and Momo nodded.

She cut open her wrist and let the blood flow freely, using it to quench the cauldron. She only stopped when Alex told her to.

“You can go back now,” Alex told her and finished making the cauldron.

The final cauldron was red and gold with an impressive design to it, something Alex had learned from his time working in the forge a few decades ago.

Momo stepped forward. “I… I feel a connection. A small one.”

Alex smiled. “You blood-refined it successfully. That’s why,” he said.

Momo didn’t react as highly as she should have. She didn’t understand the importance just yet.

“Go on, choose a name for your new cauldron,” Alex said.

Momo looked at the cauldron for a bit, thought, and came up with what she thought was a fitting name.

Red Dawn