Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex arrived at the village not long after and met the old man who still stood in front of the house with Pearl and Momo sitting to the side.

Alex brought out 200 True Spirit stones and handed them over to the man. “We’ll be staying here for 4 days,” he said.

The man looked at the spirit stones for a while before looking up at Alex. “This… is True Spirit stone, senior. I meant common spirit stones.”

Alex paused. “Oh?” that meant he had given the man 180 more spirit stones than what he had initially asked for. “My bad then. He took back the remaining spirit stones, leaving just a few more than what was necessary. Please have someone prepare 3 meals a day and send it here. They don’t need to be made from expensive ingredients. They just need to be tasty.”

The man nodded, bowing to Alex before he walked away.

Alex surveyed the house, finding all the rooms and checking on the facilities. “Choose a room you want. We will take the other ones,” he said.

“Really?” Momo asked excitedly. “Let me go look.”

She walked on ahead, opening every door to look inside. She went back and forth between multiple rooms before finally deciding upon one in the end.

Once she was in, Alex and Pearl took up different rooms.

“You must be tired,” Alex told her. “The food should be coming soon. Once it is here, eat it and go to sleep. Everything else you need to do, you can do it tomorrow.”

“Oh… I can’t start cultivating today?” she asked.

“I will need to prepare the materials for you first,” he said. “You read only the Human language, right?”

“What other language is there?” she asked, confused.

“Demon language, and beast language,” Alex said.

Momo gave a confused look. “What’s a demon?” she asked.

Alex paused. “Did they… not teach this to you either?” he asked.

The girl shook her head.

Alex took a deep breath. “I will teach you all about them later,” he said. “For now, I need to write the book for you.”

“Okay, master,” she said.

“Come on, Momo. I’ll keep you company while the food arrives,” Pearl said, leaving Alex alone to work on everything he needed to work on.

Alex looked for a long moment to think of all the things he needed in the upcoming days. Given the incredible amount of work he had before him, he needed this bit of preparation.

He kept the thought of the ingredients for the end. For now, he needed to think about his disciple. She needed food, some new clothes, new techniques, and most importantly, he needed to get her started on her Alchemy journey.

‘I need those two things no matter what,’ he thought, but he wasn’t sure where he could find them. He most likely would have to buy them.

To buy anything, he needed money. He had amassed a fortune back in the Blue Silk continent and yet he could not use a single spirit stone anymore. This was incredibly frustrating.

He needed to quickly start making money so he could start going where he wanted to and buy what he wanted to.

‘I know where to go to find ingredients in the other continents, but not this one,’ Alex thought. He had never been here before and only knew bits and pieces of it.

He knew about a place called the Great Fog Valley in the western end of the continent. It was one of those places where anyone could go and gather the ingredients they wanted.

If Alex was lucky, it would have some of the 14 ingredients he needed for his pill.

“I know Devil Skull Flower is in the Threeflower Continent, and there’s a whole Rose garden to the north of the Pill Heaven continent. But I can’t go there right now,” he thought.

A lot of the other ingredients also had specific locations he was aware of, but none of them was this very continent. ‘Worst case scenario, I will have to make a lot of pills to sell to the shops in order to get some money to go over to the other continents,’ he thought.

That was the best plan he had right now.

After coming to a conclusion, he wasted no time and began writing down the cultivation technique he wanted his disciples to learn.

The technique was none other than the Starry Sky Qi Absorption technique, the very first technique he had ever used. It was a rather incredible technique that gave added benefits during the night when the Yin was high.

It wasn’t entirely a Yin-focused cultivation technique, but it was based on Yin Qi nonetheless. And considering Momo’s Yin spiritual root, it was something that could work for her.

Writing it directly onto the talisman would’ve been so much easier, but he had to write it onto an empty book since she couldn’t use the talisman just yet.

He also didn’t have the skill to directly impart what he knew to others, so he had to rely on it.

After writing down the book, Alex began filling up the talismans with all the knowledge he had about plants and beasts and their use in alchemy. It was something for her to learn in her own time once she could learn it.

It took Alex a while to fill them up. Since he was only writing about Common rank ingredients, it was a little difficult to go through his mind to bring out all that he remembered.

After spending half a night doing that and only that, he finally finished it. At that point, he didn’t want to do any more work, so he cultivated a little while resting.

Alex checked the house and found Momo asleep in her room, her fatigue giving her an incredible sleep. Pearl was in the other room, cultivating as well.

“I’m going to go out to gather some better ingredients. Do you want to come?” Alex asked.

“Of course,” Pearl said. “I am bored out of my mind, brother. Let’s go do something.”

“Yeah, you can’t ever spend your time cultivating here,” Alex said, feeling the lack of Qi in the area. He dismissed the thought immediately and walked out. But before that, he put down one of the formation plates he had gotten, which put a barrier around the entire house. It was enough to make them feel a little safe.

They would be nearby still, in case they were needed.

Alex and Pearl disappeared into the night, arriving deep in a forest far away where Saint beasts roamed as well as the occasional Immortal beasts.

Alex began searching for ingredients, while Pearl tried doing the same as well. The man years he had spent working in both Alex’s store and now in Silvermist’s store had taught him enough about ingredients that he could start noticing a few that he recognized.

With their attentions separated, Alex covered a much larger area and soon gathered a decent amount of ingredients. Nearly 2 hours later, they were more or less done with gathering ingredients and returned back to the house.

Alex sent Pearl away while he went to his own room to start making some pills to sell.