Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

The very first thing Alex did in the area was take away all the Sunhearts and beast cores. If he spent any more time not doing so, he could start infecting the beast cores, making for a potential waste.

He got what he could, but sadly enough time had passed that some of the beast cores had been infected already. A total of 17 Sunhearts had transferred their energy into the beast core, slowly converting it from the inside.

The energy incubated whatever spirit was within the core, slowly turning it into that Sunwraith.

Alex looked at the several infected beast cores and frowned.

While he wanted to take them all with him, it was true that they would all finish incubating at the same time. He would have to consume all of that before it got to that point, which meant consuming all 17 of those beast cores within the next 5 days.

A single such beast core usually helped him cultivate for over a week. It was reckless and incredibly wasteful to do what he wanted to do.

At this point, it was a good idea to get rid of those beast cores since he was never going to be using them.

Alex sighed. If only the beast cores could last more than a few days.

Just as he thought that, Alex realized something.

‘Wait, but I can make them last more than a few days, can’t I?’ he thought.

Previously, he had no way of doing this. But after the recent changes, he absolutely could.

Immediately, Alex sat down and began calming his mind. He reached a state of mind where nothing else distracted him at all, and using that, he pierced through to his Soul Space again.

The seal tore open, revealing a gaping hole that gave access to his Soul Space. Over the past few years, he had managed to grow the hole to become much larger than it previously was.

It was still way too small for him to use for anything important, but he could start sending in Sunhearts more easily and pull out pills, talismans, and other tiny items as needed.

Alex slipped in the beast cores that easily fit through the hole and arrived inside the Demon Realm.

He found Pearl quickly, who had been cultivating, and asked him to take the beast cores into the Timeless Palace.

Pearl did as asked and placed them in there before coming out.

“What are they exactly, brother?” Pearl asked.

“That is what I’ve been using to cultivate for the past few years,” Alex said. “Those are basically the eggs that hatch to create one of the dangers of Hell, known as Sun Wraith.”

Pearl was taken aback. “And you’re keeping them here?” he asked.

“They should take a few days to hatch,” Alex said. “Inside the Timeless Palace, they should take a few years for us. Go in and check on them regularly though. If you see any changes to their body, especially if it starts glowing, throw it into either of the trees. Hopefully, that will be enough.”

“What if that’s not enough?” Pearl asked.

“Use spiritual attacks. They are incredibly weak against that. They will very easily die if you do, but be careful where you do it because you will fill the area with Sun aura, and likely will end up burning a lot of things.”

Pearl thought for a moment and nodded. “I’ll do that, brother.”

“Alright, I have to go for now. I have something important to deal with outside.”

Alex proceeded to pull his spiritual sense out of the Soul Space, letting the seal start to regenerate. However, before the seal was fully closed, he poured his spiritual sense back into it as he remembered something.

‘I need a sword,’ he thought and searched around through the various swords he had. With the size of the hole, he couldn’t use all of the swords he had. By now, he understood how weak the Starforged Tungsten swords were at his current level of strength.

If even Midnight had been broken during a fight, the ones without spirits would likely be damaged all the same. So, Alex went through the other swords he had, weapons he had received as a reward for doing well in the tournament.

He went through the swords that were there.

Alex found a few swords, and even liked a few he could use. But he wanted something better, so he kept searching through the storage bags for more. He wanted something he didn’t have to refine to use.

As he looked through the swords, he reached one that he had nearly forgotten about for a while now. It was the sword that did not accept any Qi and yet was sharper than any other sword out there.

It was a ridiculously strong sword. However, he worried if it could hold up against Death.

‘Damn, I was supposed to ask Godslayer what this sword was made up of,’ Alex remembered. ‘I wanted to use this to add to Midnight.’

That had been long before the Alchemy Tournament even. He had been too busy to do that in the end.

‘I’ll let it be for now,’ he thought. ‘Once Godslayer is okay to talk more, I will remember to ask him.’

With that much thought, Alex brought out a different sword, one that was thinner than most others. Only reason he got it was because it was easy to pull out through the size of the hole leading into his Soul Space.

Once he got the sword, he was ready to collect the Blood Aura and leave.

Alex absorbed all the Blood Aura he could from the area until it overflowed in his body. The part that overflowed, he turned into Qi, filling his Dantian. He didn’t want to spend a lot of time cultivating as he had a chance to miss Death if he did so.

His Blood Aura didn’t improve as much as he had hoped. Just a couple dozen dead beasts only made slight improvements to what was already a very strong Blood Aura.

With all that done, Alex flew into the sky and went searching for Death once more.