Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

The pill Alex had made was one that improved the mental facilities of someone, allowing them to think and perceive the stuff around them at a much higher level.

In the lack of a pill to help with Dao, this was the best alternative. And it was something Alex desperately needed.

He was familiar with the saying that to defeat the enemy, one must first know them. He took it to heart with the current issue at hand. Here, he needed to know the enemy first as well.

Alex raised his fist high above, using the Divine Elemental Accord to pour energy into it. As he used the Vortex of Perfection along with it, the energy within the pill quickly approached 100%.

The moment it reached 100%, the heavens came to life with a thunderous roar as pill clouds covered the inside and outside of the room. To the people of this city, it was a sight to see.

Because this wasn’t a place where Alchemists gathered all that much, the chances of seeing pill clouds were rather minimal. As the pill clouds formed, individuals from all around the sect watched the sky, stunned that there was an alchemist within their city who was making such an amazing pill.

Scarwolf who had just walked down the stairway to go back to his place was stunned to see the clouds forming so quickly.

“Huh? Don’t you have to make a pill for this to happen?” he asked himself. “It’s barely been 15 seconds. How did he make a pill this fast?” Guang Fuzhen came out of his broken house and watched in the direction. “Is that really the kid?” he asked himself. “He wasn’t joking, huh?”

Several other people in the city were intrigued to learn who it was that was making this happen, but no one had any idea, so they could only ask around. It wouldn’t take them very long to realize that the second-place holder of the third competition of the Alchemy Tournament being run by the Alchemy God was currently within their sects. Alex slowly stood up, feeling the strength of the lightning that crackled in the sky. It came down for his fist, but Alex simply punched the lightning bolt. The lightning bolt broke into a million motes of light, all of which came back toward his fist, empowering the pill within it.

He waited for the second lightning bolt, fighting it as well. He fought off the third, and then the fourth lightning bolt.

The fifth one crackled with the power of Immortal Transcendent 2nd realm. At the moment, Alex didn’t have the strength to fight it. But he didn’t have to. As the lightning bolt fell, he pulled out the one single shield he was allowed and used it to block the lightning bolt. As soon as he stopped it, he sent away the Pill Clouds, happy with his 5 pill veins.

He could’ve tried for more, but his shield wasn’t designed to stop pill lightning. The durability dropped a lot when using it, so he chose to use it once in a while only.

The five-veined pill pulsed with energy in his hand.

Alex proceeded to prepare formations around the room to give himself some privacy and then sat back down. He had been so lost in the moment with the spiritual root that he wanted to go back to the same state once again.

Hopefully, he would go back to an even better stage now that he had the pill. Once Alex ate the pill, he felt as though his mind had just opened up, allowing him to take in more than what he had before. The things that he was on the verge of understanding were now coming to him so very easily.

He quickly sat down, focusing his attention fully on the thing before him: the spiritual root. He could feel the cold aura coming off of it, a mystery within it for him to unravel.

Unless he did that, he would have to spend perhaps months if not years trying to fix the old man’s issues. This was the fastest way.

Time’s passage was insignificant to Alex at this very moment. He had lost track of it a long time ago once again as he was completely devoid of all thoughts but a single one.

As that one thought grew stronger and deeper, Alex began to understand more. That which had been layered in incomprehensible mysteries was now being pulled apart layer by layer.

As Alex solved one mystery after another, he got closer and closer to the truth. Not the truth behind the mystery of the mutated spiritual root, but rather a more fundamental truth.

The truth of Ice, the solid water, formed as a result of dissipating heat onto something colder. He understood.

It was morning, just a few minutes before the dawn was broken. The world came alive as the sky stirred with energy. In the world of Immortals and Divinities, there was no person who didn’t understand what was happening. And yet, it still surprised them each time something like this happened.

What surprised them even more was the fact that they could see where the energy of the sky was being descended. They were shocked to see it was the same building where the pill clouds had attacked the other night.

Many began wondering if there was a correlation.

Guang Fuzhen could sense this aura as well. He walked out onto the porch, looking in the direction of where Alex was at this very moment. He could feel the worldly laws descend, attempting to hide that which he was learning.

But to anyone who had any knowledge of the aura, they could easily tell what it was.

‘The Dao of Ice,’ the old man thought with absolute shock. ‘Surely, it’s not…’

As the worldly laws went back to Heaven, they left behind a lucid Alex who had now learned the Dao of Ice. Alex looked down at the Spiritual root in his hand, understanding the aura that came from it now.

“I see how it is,” he said softly. “Now that I know you, I can deal with you as well.”