Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

“A star?”

Bladedance took the talisman from Alex’s hands, watching it herself once again. She reached the end of the recording, where she saw the tiny glowing orb beyond the moon.

“Is that a star?”

Everything that glowed in the night sky was a star. In reality, most of these ‘stars’ were just floating objects in the night sky, reflecting light from the sun. Whether they were massive realms or small pieces of space debris caught in a realm’s gravity belt, they were considered

the same.

However, that was only true for the realm or anywhere close to it.

Any ‘star’ they saw was relatively nearby, no more than a few dozen years’ travel away.

But this recording had been made nearly a thousand years’ travel away from the realm, in a patch of space where nothing reflected any light. Even when looking toward the sun, there were no signs of stars, as the weak light of the realms was far too faint to reach that place.

Even the sun itself was three-fourths its original size, so it was only natural that everything else would be too small to see.

And yet, in the completely opposite direction, beyond even the True Moon-which was easily another thousand years away-there lay another tiny, twinkling light that could only be a star.

As for what it was exactly, no one could tell.

“It’s impossible for anything to be reflecting that much light, right?” Alex asked. “Even if it were a giant mirror the size of an entire realm, the distance would be far too great to reflect such a strong glow.”

“Maybe,” Bladedance said, biting her nail. She tried to make sense of it, but nothing came to mind. “Could it be another sun?”

Alex scratched his head.

The knowledge he had learned as a child was just that-the stars far away were other suns too distant to be seen properly. That was what he had always believed, and it was the truth in all worlds but this one.

Once he became a cultivator, he learned that there was no such thing as another sun. And yet, what else could this be?

The expedition had been for the moon, and yet they had discovered something beyond it. What were they supposed to make of that?

‘Another sun,’ Alex considered the possibility. ‘If it is a sun, could it have life too?’

“Everyone, please settle down,” the Wine God spoke up as the hall began to grow rowdy with chatter. “I understand your curiosity and suspicions, but let us not get too far ahead of ourselves.”

“Your Drunkenness!” someone called out. “What do you make of it? Do you think there are other humans living beyond the moon?”

Others added their voices in agreement.

“In the recording that the crew of the Cerulean Sparrow has brought back to us, we can see the corpse of one of the Primordials, the Moon Rabbit. We can also see the True Moon at a larger scale, albeit not by much. And we can see the spatial anomaly capable of cutting apart anything that gets too close.”

“Seeing all that, is it so hard to believe that the tiny pinprick of light we see might just be another anomaly near the moon?”

He looked around, watching as realization slowly dawned on the people below.

“As a scholar, let me tell you something we often struggle with when learning new things. You must not let the bias of your current understanding prevent you from discovering new truths,” he continued. “You saw a small light in the sky and assumed it to be another realm. But can you think of nothing else that could be

producing that light?”

The crowd began to murmur, realizing they had jumped to conclusions.

Alex sat in his seat, slowly frowning. He had overthought it as well, hadn’t he?

After saying all that, the Wine God sat back down, letting the people discuss among themselves.

“You don’t believe all that, do you?” Bladedance asked.

The Wine God chuckled wryly. “Of course not, senior,” he said. “This is certainly a shocking discovery, but we can’t let the public cause too much of a stir because of it. We must first discuss the matter with the Sky God and the other gods and determine what can be done.”

Alex’s jaw dropped.

He had nearly been convinced by the man’s words, when in reality, he had only been trying to calm the crowd and prevent the spread of

speculation.

The Beast God nodded. “Is it possible for something to reflect light from that far away?” she asked.

The Wine God shrugged. “I couldn’t tell you. But I can point you toward the moon. It’s quite far away, and it still reflects light.”

The Beast God frowned. “The moon is silver-white. It doesn’t absorb

much light. But if that thing has an atmosphere, it can’t be reflecting that much light. Is there any feasible way to determine what it really

is?”

“Hmm…” the Wine God considered. He thought for a bit, but couldn’t come with anything definitive. The only thing he could think of was

another expedition.

“What about an artifact that lets you see far away?” Alex suggested. “Like that artifact of yours, senior-but instead of just sensing aura, it could allow you to actually see distant objects in detail.”

“Hmm… that might work,” the Wine God said.

“I could speak to Yaojia when I meet her again,” the Beast God said. “With senior’s return, the Sky God may call for another council soon.”

‘Shen Yaojia?’ Alex wondered. That was Godslayer’s goddaughter and disciple, and the current Artifact God. He wanted to meet her as well so he could fulfill his promise to Godslayer.

With that decided, the hall moved on to other topics. They tried to

learn more about the spatial anomaly, but aside from the fact that it consisted of thousands of interlacing spatial blades spanning the entire region, they learned nothing new. After a while, the assembly came to a close.