Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

The only other thing that Alex was really interested in was the Elixir. He wondered where he could find it, and was a little worried this would be in the Endless Night sect as well.

As it turned out, while the Endless Night sect was the one that created this Elixir, they actually sold it to the others as well. Many cities would have these elixirs in various amounts, which would usually cost an exorbitant price.

“There was a rumor in my sect that our sect master purchased a flask of elixir this big for 2 thousand decaying Sunhearts.” The amount Lang Luxin gestured was enough to fill 3 general pill bottles, or around 6 wine cups.

“2 thousand decaying Sunhearts?” Alex asked in surprise. “Do you know how strong that made him?”

“I’m not really sure. But that amount would be enough to elevate a person’s strength to be able to fight most of the beasts in this region of the desert all on their own.”

Alex nodded.

The chief of the Sunwardens had the right idea of needing Elixir to make his daughter strong enough to become an Extolite all on her own, but he did not know just how difficult the thing was to come by in the first place.

Alex couldn’t help but wonder how the man learned about the Elixir in the first place. He guessed someone strong must have ventured out of this place and stayed in his tribe for a few days, telling him about the inner regions.

The strong ones were the only ones who could venture out of here in the first place.

Lang Luxin didn’t only answer Alex’s questions. He had questions of his own. Seeing the first cultivator that did not come from the Endless Night sect, he was very curious how Alex gained his current cultivation base.

He tried many times to make Alex answer his question, but Alex always diverted the topic, never really answering anything. He didn’t want to lie, but he didn’t want to tell him that he came from somewhere outside of this world either.

The people here were likely to be stronger than him, so he didn’t want to get imprisoned in another place for some time.

“How strong are the people of the Endless Night sect?” Alex asked.

“Very strong,” Lang Luxin said, almost a sense of reverence in his voice. “They are strong enough that their elders can fight one on one with the beasts in the core regions. Or at least, they say as much.”

Alex raised an eyebrow.

If a hundred Immortals in a formation couldn’t fight those beasts, then that put the strength of those elders in the Divine realm. That made them very strong.

“Are they stronger than Death?” Alex asked.

Lang Luxin nearly stumbled forward. He quickly shook his head. “No one is stronger than Death.”

Alex narrowed his eyes. “Have you met Death?” he asked. “You seem quite scared of her.”

“I once saw her when I was only a teenager,” Lang Luxin said. “I had come across a beast I could not defeat, but as a warrior I couldn’t back down. I was ready to give up my life then and there, but she killed the beast before anything could happen to me.”

“I was lucky that she was far enough away so I got to run away. If not, she would have likely killed me.”

Alex raised an eyebrow. Having met Death, he could understand just how scary she must’ve been from the perspective of a weaker individual. Especially one whose mortality balanced on a thread, unlike him.

The first beast of the desert finally lunged out of the desert just then. It was a large ant with wings on its back that could never help it fly. Its giant mandibles clicked as it stared at Alex and Lang Luxin, seemingly trying to decide which one it was that it had to kill.

“You have more Sunhearts than me, don’t you?” Alex asked. He only had a few.

Lang Luxin nodded. “If you wish, you may take this one, senior. I’ll take the next one,” he said.

Alex shook his head. “I was merely trying to determine which one it is going to target,” he said. “You can fight it. In fact, I want to watch how you will fight it.”

Lang Luxin smiled. “Thank you, senior.”

He immediately pulled a bow and arrow from his storage bag and nocked a arrow into it.

Alex looked at the bow, which seemed to have been made with a strong metal, and then at the arrow which was bone white. A layer of green surrounded the arrow in that moment.

Lang Luxin targeted the beast and let the arrow loose. The bone arrow flew through the air, seemingly parting it to fly at the ant. It struck the ant with a loud thud, the bone splintering upon impact, the shards sticking themselves to the ant’s face.

Most of its face was strong enough that the shards did nothing, but the eyes were a different question entirely.

Lang Luxin put away the bow and brought out a spear next before charging in to fight.

With its eyes gone, the ant was incapable of presenting any trouble to Lang Luxin at all. His strategic attacks had left the beast vulnerable right from the start, which helped him fight it rather easily.

The ant seemingly could tell where the Sunhearts were, so it knew where Lang Luxin was, but aside from that, there was nothing else it could do.

Alex looked at the battle and couldn’t help but nod. Tactics aside, Lang Luxin’s physical strength was nothing to joke about either.

If the two of them were to go fist to fist against each other with no technique or power, and just their physical strength, Alex would likely lose. The man was just that strong.

Lang Luxin delivered a final blow on the ant, piercing his spear through its skull.

The giant ant fell to the ground just that simply, dead.