Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex placed all 8 of the Immortal beasts’ cores inside the formation, letting it absorb life aura for as much as it could.

In the meanwhile, he spent his time cultivating and preparing. The Immortal beast cores would take a long time to absorb the life aura.

Alex let them be for months, focusing on another thing he needed to fix before he could use them.

The technique to form the Blood Beast was somewhat flawed, which he had noticed from the start but could not have done anything to change at the time.

Now that he had the time, he had focused on it.

The Blood aura assaulted the beast core, making it submit to its power before letting it feed on it to form the Beast core. However, after noticing how Sunhearts did it, letting the beast openly accept it all, he had decided to use that approach.

That needed him to strip away part of the technique where he combated the spirit inside the beast core, letting it remain submerged in the blood for quite some time so that it learned to accept on its own.

To Alex’s surprise, while it took a few too many days, the beast core did eventually start absorbing the blood aura, at which point Alex could resume the technique and force as much energy as it could take in.

This way, even a normal beast core could easily reach the Immortal realm in terms of strength without being infected with a Sunheart.

Alex was excited to use this approach with the Infected beast cores too, when he noticed a massive issue with the approach.

Because the Infected beast cores were mere hours to a single day away from forming Sun Wraiths, Alex could not let it absorb the energy on its own in time.

Even when he tried to use it the moment it started devouring the outside energy, it only became slightly better than the regular blood beasts. At that point, if Alex also tried to add the beast core, it only ended up destroying the whole thing.

So, he had to start searching for a solution to the issue where the infected beast core could be made to start absorbing the blood on its own immediately.

Alex attempted to force-feed it the blood aura, but that didn’t work. He tried to slow or speed up time for the beast core and blood aura, but that had no effect since the slowdown or speed-up affected the time remaining for it to form a Sun Wraith too.

He even tried to use direct Intent to start the beast core to feed on the blood aura, and while it worked, it seemed to hurt the beast in the end. The blood beast that came as a result of that approach was barely in the Immortal Spirit realm.

Something about it had been ruined because of that.

Alex made some other minor attempts at fixing the issue, but nothing worked. What worked in the end was a fixing of the technique itself.

Instead of trying to get the beast core to absorb more aura, Alex made it so that the blood aura itself appeared attractive to the beast core. So long as he could make the beast core consume the blood aura on its own, it would work.

So, he spent months trying to fix that one specific issue, and when he finally did it, he had improved the blood beasts for the better.

When he finally made a blood beast with everything he had learned, Alex ended up making a blood beast that was stronger than himself.

The resulting blood beast, formed of both blood aura and yang aura, contained not just the strength of his blood, but also the strength of the Sunheart it had absorbed.

The blood beast was easily in the Divine realm.

Alex was quite stunned when he first formed the blood beast. It was a beast that was stronger than himself, by some degree. It couldn’t improve sadly, so it was at the peak of what it could be, but that alone was more than enough for Alex.

The beast was also not as intelligent as he had hoped, so it was time to try with Immortal beast cores.

Alex used the beast core of a Flaming Pheasant in the Immortal realm. Judging by the aura, the beast was in the Immortal Origin realm when it had died.

Alex thought of infecting the beast core first, but upon consideration, he decided to have the blood beast made normally. He needed to understand what came of just that before he started doing everything else.

So, he used it normally. With the improved technique, he didn’t have to combat the Immortal beast core at all, and could easily get it to absorb the aura all on its own.

Alex used the rest of the technique and refined the core until it transformed into a blood core, with a beast forming around it.

The bird came flying out of the cauldron, spinning in the open air, before coming down from the sky, landing in the sand before Alex. It looked toward him, Alex, with quizzical blood eyes, and then slowly bowed.

“I thank you for giving me life,” the Flaming Pheasant spoke. “How may I be of your service, master?”

Alex looked at the beast with wide eyes, surprised. He hadn’t expected it to speak at all, at least not until he used an infected beast core.

“Do you remember your name?” Alex asked.

“I struggle to do so,” the beast said. “I have no recollection of who I am, save of what I am.”

“But you can speak freely, can you not?” Alex asked. “Is that from your memories?”

“I do not know,” the beast said. “Do you have a command for me, Master? I am ready to perform whatever acts you wish me to.”

Alex thought for a moment, deciding to test its intelligence. “Alright, come with me. Let me test a thing or two.”