Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex stayed in the hall for two more days so he was back at his peak before he left this place. Aethersage needed around the same amount of time as well, and Killersky wanted to come along with them.

Since the tournament was shown throughout the world, they didn’t feel too bad about missing out on anything. They could always catch it all back when they had the time.

Alex went by the other place where Momo and Pearl were staying. They had returned from the arena and were waiting for Alex to come get them.

“Master!” Momo said with an excited look. “Congratulations! You did amazing.”

Alex didn’t think he was as excited as she was. “Thank you. Do you want to stay and watch? Because I was thinking of leaving.”

“We can leave,” Momo said. “Since you are done with the competition, I don’t see what the point would be the stay and watch anymore.”

“I think little Momo wants to get back to cultivating as soon as she can,” Pearl said from the side. “She hasn’t had any time to rest for the past 3 weeks either, so she is quite tired.”

“Oh… that’s why I didn’t feel so good,” Momo said, finally understanding her own situation. “I was wondering why everything felt so lethargic.”

“You still need to rest even as a cultivator,” Alex told her. “I’ll teach you about Intent and how using it up a lot can be troublesome.”

Momo nodded.

Aethersage was talking to his disciple, a young black-haired young man. Next to him, Killersky stood alone.

“Where is your disciple?” Alex asked her.

“Not here,” Killersky said. “She’s far away in a room cultivating. I’ll go meet her when I have the time.”

Alex was confused for a second. “Why is she not here?” he asked.

“I didn’t want to bring her here,” Killersky said.

“You were allowed in without her being here?” Alex asked with a surprised look on his face.

“They don’t really care about our disciples until the very last day tournament, you know?” the woman said. “They even told us at the very start that even if our disciples were to die, we could still take part in the final competition.”

Alex slowly nodded. “I suppose I didn’t think anyone would leave their disciples behind,” he said.

“Surprisingly, they are the most safe when they are not with us,” Killersky said. “No one can realize that they are our disciple after all.”

Alex nodded as he saw some truths in those words. “Alright then, what now? Where do we go?” he asked.

“The Whole Rose Garden has my lotus, doesn’t it?” Aethersage asked.

“It does,” Alex said. “Then can we go there first?” Aethersage asked. “Let’s go get the flower while we have the chance. Then we can go get the White Ascension Flowers from Trueflame Continent.”

Alex nodded. “Well, that sounds like a plan to me.” He turned toward Killersky. “How many more ingredients did you need again?” “Just two” Killersky said. “I have no idea where I can find them in this world though, so I will have to go around searching wherever I can.”

After talking for a bit, Alex told Killersky where she could find the ingredients. “Trueflame Continent and Molten Hearth Continent, huh? I shall try my luck there then.”

“Would you like to come with us?” Alex asked. “We will be going to the Trueflame continent as soon as Brother Aethersage finds his lotus.”

Killersky thought for a bit. “No,” she said. “You guys go. I will stay here for a bit. Got a bastard to kill if he tries to come for me.”

Alex looked at her weirdly. “You are talking about` the guy you started a fight with?” he asked. “Do you really want to fight him?”

“I gave my words. I don’t do that so simply,” she said. “Give me 2 months and a half. I shall meet you in the Trueflame continent in exactly those amount of days.”

“Two and a half months,” Aethersage mulled over the numbers. “In case we are late, stay around the Wineweed City. We will contact you when we arrive.”

“Got it.”

Alex and Aethersage finally left Hardrock city, making their way to the east from where they would take the teleportation formation to Rosefall city once again.

Along the way, they talked for a bit, explaining the situation of what exactly went on in the final minutes of the competition.

“I see. No wonder they took so much time tallying your points,” Aethersage said. “Honestly, if I were you, I would have likely demanded a retest since they made the mistake.”

“Yeah, I should’ve likely done something similar, but I just didn’t have the time to think at all. Especially since I knew I was gonna get up high in the rank even when I failed.”

“That’s true,” Aethersage said. “I wonder how our points will decide what happens overall. They did mention that it’s not just the final competition that matters, right?” “All competitions, all points matter,” Alex said. “I assume some competitions are going to matter more than others. Like I have no doubt they will care more about our ability to train future alchemists and find ingredients that are hard to find than our ability to make many pills at once. That is important too, but not as important in my eyes.”

“I don’t know,” Aethersage said. “Sounds pretty important if you consider that there might be times when one needs to make many pills at once. My master said he had to do those sorts of things when he was a front-line Alchemist during the war.”

Alex went over those words. “That’s true too,” he said. “Well, it doesn’t matter what the points system is. All that matters is that we do the best we can in each competition, isn’t it?”

“That’s true,” Aethersage said. “As long as we do our best, we won’t have any regret. So, I’m going to do my best to win this whole thing.”