Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

“Do you need my help?” Alex asked Pearl.

“No, we’re doing fine. We have one of the Beast God’s people with us, so it will be fine,” Pearl quickly replied.

“Alright. Have fun then.”

Alex had no reason or intention to stop them from doing what they were doing so long as they weren’t in any sort of danger. After putting away the talisman, he checked to see what Bigshell had given him.

Perhaps because the man understood that he was an alchemist, he had given him a bunch of alchemy ingredients instead of spirit stones or artifacts like most people would have thought to give. It was quite thoughtful of him.

Just as Alex reached his room, he received another message. This time, it was from his master.

Bladedance wanted to meet with him soon, so Alex obliged. He was ready to travel over to the Jade Lotus Continent, but Bladedance was going to come to the Holy Continent instead. She had grown bored of the other continent.

Alex returned to his cultivation session for now and waited for his master to arrive.

She came about a month later and finally met up with him.

“Have you been cultivating all this time?” she asked.

Alex nodded. “I have nothing better to do.”

Bladedance supposed that was true.

“What did you want to talk about, Master? You made it sound rather important.”

“It’s about your status as the Savior,” Bladedance said. “I just needed to make sure you understand the situation and that you won’t go

blabbing about it to just anyone.”

“My… what?”

“I know you’re not someone to just speak without forethought, but I still found it necessary to instill vigilance in you,” she said. “The matter is just so important that you shouldn’t even be talking to anyone else about it. Not even your family when you do meet them again.”

Alex wasn’t sure what to say.

“I had no intention of going around speaking about it,” he said. “It’s still just a theory after all, right? It might very well be the other guy who is the real deal.”

Bladedance held a strange look. “I’m not sure if he is. Your situation has held more credence with the two gods than what the other guy did.”

Alex struggled to understand what she was talking about. “My situation? Why would I hold any credence?” he asked.

“Because you fulfilled the savior prophecy,” she said.

Alex paused for a moment. “You’re not talking about the one from the Medicine World, are you?”

“No, the one from a few months ago,” she said. “You did stop a misbehaving blue bird from harming the people there. And many saw you fight the Sky God’s soldier with your blood powers.”

Alex nearly tuned out Bladedance in that moment, his entire thought process coming to a halt as he recalled the prophecy for Raingear City.

“The Sky God’s soldier had lightning wings. Was he the blue bird?” Alex asked.

“It was the ship-the Cerulean Sparrow,” Bladedance explained. “Although, I can see it being the Sky God’s soldier too.”

Alex’s eyes widened slightly as he remembered the ship’s name. “It

really was named after a blue bird,” he said with a stunned expression. “Did I really fulfill a prophecy then?”

Bladedance looked rather surprised. “Had you not realized it yet? The gods have been talking about it relentlessly among themselves, trying to find out how it is possible for two people to fulfill the same prophecy.”

“I see…” Alex said in a dull manner. His mind was still very much occupied by the hundreds of thoughts that had suddenly come up. “That’s pretty much what I came to talk to you about,” Bladedance said. “I was worried you would speak of this to others, but it seems I had no reason to be. You didn’t even know in the first place.” “Wait, so how exactly does it work?” Alex asked. “At first, I thought that the Divination God himself wasn’t sure who the Savior really was, so he laid a few divinations for the potential ones, and by the time they all came true, we would realize who the real one was. But if two people can make the same divination come true, then… what does that mean?”

Bladedance remained silent for a few seconds before answering him.

“It means one of two things,” she explained. “Either the concept of a singular Savior as a whole is false, and we’re being led astray by the words of a man who did not care to explain it any more than he thought he needed to.”

Alex supposed that was true. If the Divination God was as reclusive as the others claimed him to be, it was possible that he left out crucial information regarding the Savior, primarily the fact that there might be more than one who would have to come together to become the

actual thing.

‘What if the ‘Two Becomes One’ prophecy was actually referring to this one?’ Alex wondered.

“Or…” Bladedance continued. “One of you is forging the truth.”

“Forging the truth?” Alex asked.

“Fabrication. You are clearly not the one doing it. So it must be this Longstrike guy who is making things up,” Bladedance said.

“He’s making up the prophecies?” Alex asked. Almost as soon as he did, he thought of the actual possible situation. “He’s forcing the

prophecies to come true.”

Bladedance nodded.

Alex frowned as he considered the possibility. “But why would anyone

do that? What’s the point?” he asked.

“What is the point of doing anything in life? It’s to make your life better,” Bladedance said. “Do you understand the level of authority and credibility a person can hold if they are merely considered somewhat important? Now imagine how important the Savior of the entire world would be. Even gods could not compare.”

Alex’s thoughts had never even reached that possibility, as he never liked thinking about the prophecies at all, let alone them coming true. “This puts another prophecy in a new light now,” Bladedance said.

Alex grew curious. “Which one?”

“The one with the real and the fake-and how that will begin the end.”