Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

After two more days, Alex finally found Death.

They flew in the sky far away and looked down at the woman with her sword, standing in the middle of another horde of dead beasts.

“Don’t get too close or she’ll notice us,” Alex warned the old man who flew next to him. “She cut me down last time when I tried to go past her even in the sky.”

The old man nodded. “So? Now what?”

Alex thought for a bit and shook his head. “I have no clue. I need to check on her, and for that, I need to touch her. But I get cut down long before I get too close.”

“We still have to try,” the old man said. “Are you certain you won’t die?”

“I come back to life no matter what,” Alex explained. Of course, there was a way, but there weren’t many that knew how to kill him. Only those that had interacted with the Undying Gods during the war would know about it.

While it was clear that Death was strong and had likely fought in the war, it wasn’t a guarantee that she knew how to kill him. That was not including the fact that she didn’t have a mind to think at the moment.

Alex noticed something that caught his attention.

“She doesn’t attack beasts that are already killed, does she?” he asked. It was blatantly apparent from the start, but now that he thought about it, it could really work.

“She can only sense ones that are living. I don’t know if her eyes even work all that much at this moment. Just her senses do.”

“Then, she won’t stop me from getting close to her if I’m dead,” Alex said.

The old man narrowed his eyes. “What are you planning on doing?” he asked.

Alex smiled. “Kill me,” he said. “Once I’m dead, throw my body next to her.”

The old man frowned. “Are you sure?”

“Yes, do it.”

The old man wasted no time. He brought out his spear and stabbed Alex through the head. Once he was certain Alex was dead, he threw his body next to Death, rather than at Death.

He had a faint idea of the dangers of trying to do anything to Death directly.

Alex’s corpse shot through the air and landed in the crater of corpses that had formed around Death. A moment later, his head healed, and he came back to life.

The moment he was back to life, he immediately employed every single bit of Intent within him to slow down time around him.

Death’s head seemed to turn toward him slowly as he reached out toward her, staring into her dead eyes, and grabbed her head. He used his Spiritual sense immediately, attempting to go into her mind.

It was surprising how easy it was, as if there was no barrier to her mind, no protection. He slipped through and before he knew it, he slipped inside her Spiritual Sea.

Alex arrived inside the vacant sea, surprised. He hadn’t expected to get in here. He was only trying to check her state, not get in her Spiritual Sea, and yet he had done it.

He had succeeded in doing something better.

“Alright, this is better than what I was hoping for,” Alex thought and looked around.

Death’s Spiritual Sea appeared half-dead, with still water below him and deep dark clouds above.

Besides that, there was nothing.

He compared it to his own Spiritual Sea and found it so very vacant. He found no Origins in here, or Creations. The soul that should have been inside was also completely absent.

‘How can there be nothing inside a mind?’ Alex thought in surprise. ‘Such a vacant mind should only belong to a corpse, shouldn’t it?’

Alex frowned as the situation was weirder than he had expected it to be. He thought for a bit and saw no reason why this Spiritual Sea should exist if there was nothing inside of it.

So, he came to a conclusion.

“Whatever is supposed to be in here has drowned long ago,” he thought. He remembered a time when he himself was forever drowned inside his own Spiritual Sea when his clone took over his body.

“Is something suppressing her soul?” Alex thought, but there was nothing there at all. “Is she really underneath this water?”

Alex thought of searching inside, but going directly into what was the manifestation of someone’s Spiritual energy was not a good idea at all—especially when that someone was Death.

Even mindless, she could easily kill him inside here just by acting on instinct.

Alex decided to search the bottom of her Spiritual Sea anyway, but decided to push that for the end. He wanted to go through everything else and see if he missed something by any chance.

He roamed for what felt like hours, but had to have only been minutes. He scoured the vast Spiritual Sea that had no end or beginning. He was sure this was way bigger than his own.

“I should have expected as much,” he thought in the end. “This is no Spiritual Sea. It’s a Divine Sea.”

Death was a Divinity after all.

Now that he had confirmed that there was nothing else inside the Divine Sea, it was time to go down into the water and see if the soul hid underneath.

Alex began descending down toward the water. He slowly submerged himself into it, feeling an intense pressure from all sides. He tried to fight it off, but it wasn’t something he could fight against so easily.

He still tried, and went inside to search for Death’s soul. Healing the soul was his one chance of getting out of this world after all.

However, when he was fully within the water, the pressure became unbearable to the point where he couldn’t even move.

The pressure was not a physical pressure, but rather a mental pressure. He was being attacked mentally.

At that point, nothing Alex did could protect him.

Before he knew it, his soul was dead.