Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex wasn’t the only one who was shocked to realize the mountain wasn’t real. Shumi herself was in a state of similar shock when she saw the mountain disappear before her, replaced momentarily by a bright yellow barrier.

She felt stupid having not done it so long ago, but it was only just now that she had learned it was a barrier, so she couldn’t be blamed.

She pressed into the barrier, the yin from her body doing something to momentarily stop the illusion from forming, but when it reached the actual yellow barrier, it felt as if she was throwing drops of water into a raging inferno.

No matter how much of her All-Ending Yin Qi she used, it could not overwhelm the power that had formed the barrier.

She continued pushing, trying the best she could, but it didn’t take long before she was certain she had failed. So, she pulled her arms back finally, watching as the illusion of the rocky exterior came back around, falling into place.

“What’s wrong?” Alex asked upon seeing her stop. “Keep going”

“I can’t,” Shumi said. “It doesn’t work.”

“What?”

Alex moved in closer, taking a closer look at the mountain wall. The thing had gone back to how it was at the start, as if Shumi hadn’t just revealed that it was a fake mountain.

Shumi took a moment to gather her thoughts before explaining what had happened. “My Yin Qi, despite its property, is too weak to fully shut down the actual barrier on the inside.”

“Really?” Alex asked in surprise. “So you can’t create an opening?”

Shumi shook her head. “Maybe if we had the actual formation scripts exposed, I could directly shut it down through there, but the actual

barrier itself is beyond my capability right now.”

Alex couldn’t help but be slightly disappointed upon hearing that. The initial disappearance of the mountain had given him so much hope too. He looked around the place afterward and shook his head.

“There is no chance that the formation can be shut down by something outside,” Alex said. “At least, one thing is certain, isn’t it?” Shumi looked toward him with a curious look.

Alex continued. “We now know for certain that we have to get into the mountain directly. We don’t have to search for a way up at the top or somewhere through the bottom. We don’t even have to go around looking for an entryway.”

Shumi gave it some thought and nodded. “There’s a barrier before us. So we can either shut it down or find a way to destroy it.”

Alex nodded with a brilliant smile. Knowing that there weren’t many other choices to go through was, in a way, quite relieving. He could focus all of his attention on just one mission now.

“Since there is not a chance to shut it down, all we can do is destroy it,” Shumi said. “But that requires us to overpower it. And we don’t have that sort of strength.”

Alex nodded. “We don’t.” He acknowledged her concerns. “But I have an idea.”

Shumi narrowed her eyes and waited for Alex to continue.

Instead of explaining, Alex started looking around the place for a bit. He looked toward the forest and gestured toward Shumi. “You should move back into the forest. It might get a little dangerous around here.” Shumi didn’t understand why he would ask her that. “What are you planning to do?” she asked. “Can you produce enough strength to break the barrier all on your own?”

Alex shook his head. “Not me,” he said, before pointing into the sky. “Them.”

As soon as he said that, the yang energy that had been hiding him from the birds in the sky disappeared. “You should really move back,” he said.

Shumi didn’t ask any more questions and moved back immediately. She was nearly a hundred meters away, safely out of the range of any mishap. She looked at the bird in the sky that cawed loudly and somewhat guessed what Alex’s plan was.

“He’s using the bird to attack the barrier,” Whisker said before she

could even voice her thoughts.

Shumi nodded, having come to the exact conclusion. “But it’s

dangerous. He could die if he makes any mistake,” she said. “Those

birds are strong enough to kill Divinities.”

Even as she said that, she found it even more possible to use those birds to break through the wall. If those birds could destroy Divinities, then they had to be incredibly strong after all.

“It will be fine,” Whisker said with no small amount of trust in Alex. “Brother knows what he’s doing. If he thinks he can handle it, then he

has a plan.”

“Are you sure?” Shumi couldn’t help but ask.

Whisker turned toward the woman. “You have to trust brother. He has found a way out of all troublesome situations before. He’ll get us out of this situation as well.”

Shumi found it surprising how much she wanted to believe the little mouse. She turned around and looked toward Alex, trusting now that he knew what he was doing.

The bird came down toward Alex at an exceptional speed, its beak pointed toward his chest. A single hit would be enough to turn his entire torso into ash, but Alex didn’t plan on letting it hit him.

The world around him shrank at the last moment as he used the Dao of Spatial Contraction and took a step away right before the bird struck him. In a single step, he appeared dozens of meters away from

the bird, which could not stop in its trajectory.

With a deafening boom, the bird struck the mountain wall, instantly shattering through the massive illusion, revealing the inside yellow barrier more clearly now than even Shumi had.

Alex watched hopefully, but sighed when he realized that the yellow barrier hadn’t been damaged. He sighed, but he wasn’t crestfallen. If one bird didn’t work, then he would let two more come. If two

didn’t work, then four would. As long as there were birds in the sky and the barrier still standing, he would continue.