Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Scarlet introduced herself, followed by Whisker.

“You’re bonded with two beasts, for a total of three of the Heavenly Beasts’ bloodlines,” the Beast God said, giving no second thought to Scarlet. Despite being a Phoenix, she wasn’t interesting enough for the Beast God.

Whisker, however, was an entirely different topic.

“You’re a Seeking Mouse, aren’t you?” she asked. “I’ve never seen one with a cultivation base. How is it possible that you have one?”

“Umm… I was born like this, Your Majesty,” Whisker answered.

“Really?” she asked, not trusting his words. She turned toward Alex, waiting for his explanation.

“I don’t exactly know what was done to him to make him capable of cultivation, senior,” Alex answered. “I found him in a secret realm that belonged to a group of demons from back during the war.”

“Where was this?” she asked.

“In a lower realm,” Alex answered.

“What lower realm?”

“The Third Major Spirit Realm.”

The Beast God’s eyes widened slightly. “You’re from that realm?” she asked in surprise. A plethora of thoughts seemed to flash across her mind in that moment, as if she was piecing together a puzzle she hadn’t even been aware was there before.

“You know of the realm, senior?” Alex asked.

“I know of someone from that realm.”

Alex raised an eyebrow. “Really? Did someone ascend here recently?”

“Recent enough. I know someone who came from there about thirty thousand years ago.”

Alex blinked. That wasn’t recent at all for him. That was long before the Godkiller, an entire two cycles of the Four rulers before.

“I wouldn’t know who that is then,” he said.

The Beast God nodded. “Where exactly is this secret realm located? I will send someone to gather up everything they can from there. Giving a cultivation base to someone like a Seeking Mouse is no small feat.”

“That wouldn’t be possible, senior,” Alex said. “The secret realm no longer exists.”

“Huh?”

“I… sort of destroyed it before I ascended,” Alex said. He didn’t want to say he took it away, so that was all he could tell her.

“You…” the Beast God stopped herself before letting out a sigh. “The Destroyer indeed.”

Alex blinked, unaware of how to respond to that. It did, however, allow him to ask the question he had been meaning to ask for a while.

“Why are you helping me, senior?”

“You’re curious why I’m not sending you right back to Hell?”

“Well, there would be no point in doing that, but you’re not capturing me, so I am a little confused,” Alex said. “Last I remember, you were against my survival.”

“That was back when the leader of the Fateseekers told us that you would lead the world to destruction,” she said. “But the situation doesn’t change even when you’re dead, so there’s no point.”

“Is that so?” he asked.

“Sending you to Hell was one way to deal with it, but since you’ve gotten out, I don’t know if there is another way,” she said. “Plus…”

The Beast God hesitated.

Alex waited, but she did not continue.

“Never mind.”

Alex was curious what she meant to say there, but didn’t force her to speak. She had likely changed her mind in the past millennium and a half, realizing that if both his survival and death led to the same situation, then there was no point in interfering with his life in any way.

“So you’re not against me anymore, senior?” Alex asked.

“No, I’m not.”

“Then, would you mind if I made a request?” Alex asked.

“Depends on the request.”

“I need to get to the Sky God’s Palace quickly. Could you find out—”

“If this is about your family, then you don’t have to worry,” the Beast God said immediately. “They’re safe.”

Alex paused. “My family is safe?”

“The Sword God already contacted the Sky God to ask about your family, and we’ve gotten a reply saying that your family is indeed safe with the Sky God. They had arrived long before you took part in the Alchemy competition.”

Alex could feel tears threatening to fill his eyes. “They’re safe? They’re all safe?”

“That’s what the Sky God sent in her message. Your master will know more.”

Alex took in a deep breath. “Thank you so much for this news, senior. You cannot understand the relief I feel right now.”

So many years of worry and fear had just been washed away from Alex now that he knew his family was safe.

The Beast God smiled a little, understanding his feelings.

“Is that you?” Bladedance’s voice came just then from outside the room. She stepped in and saw the sight of Alex and everyone else. “Good. You’re all here.”

Her eyes lingered on Scarlet for a moment before moving on.

Alex turned around. “Master,” he called out with a wide smile and bowed slightly. “I hope I didn’t take too long to come.”

He could sense Bladedance’s cultivation base, and it had grown in strength since he had last seen her. Or rather, she had regained her original strength.

He didn’t sense the same level of strength as he did with the Patriarchs and other Celestials back in the Land of the Blessed Sun, but perhaps expecting that from someone who had been without a Creation for over a hundred thousand years was too much.

Hell alone had regressed her cultivation base to a point where she couldn’t even be called a Celestial. So her current cultivation base was indeed great progress for her.

“You’ve taken no more or less time than you should have,” Bladedance answered. “The fact that you got to meet me is enough to tell me that the Storm God isn’t aware of… your… whereabouts.”

Bladedance’s words trailed off, as if she was distracted by something.

“The fuck?”

That caught Alex by surprise. He looked back up at Bladedance, confused about why she would suddenly curse out loud. “Is something wrong?”

“Yes,” Bladedance said, her eyes fully narrowed while her senses violently searched around his person. After a while, she stopped, an exasperated look forming on her face.

“How the hell did you become a Half-God?”