Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Whatever vow it was that the beasts had made to the Sun God, Alex couldn’t tell. At least, not yet.

So, the only thing he could do at that point was wait. Wait and let his body evolve further into the final stage. Once it did, hopefully, the Sun God would let him know.

Alex spent the next few hours talking with Bai Jingshen and Pearl, commenting on the wonderful land that was the Dragon Continent. It was flatter than the land in the Black and White Continent with more free-flowing rivers and giant lakes.

The land was verdant with plant life as well, entire regions covered in leagues and leagues of nothing but trees with very few beasts living within.

With the beasts more evolved in this world, they tended to group together as a civilization instead of living a vagrant life.

Sadly, Alex couldn’t see much of the beasts themselves in clarity from where they were. With the space around them scrunched up at every moment, only objects that were at a distance away from the ship itself appeared normal. Everything else was shrunken in size by dozens of degrees.

It felt like a long time before the shrinking space around them disappeared and the world returned to normal.

Alex stood up from where he sat and looked before him at a distance where he saw a teal barrier surrounding a space like a dome. Similar to the golden barrier around the White Tiger’s palace, Alex could imagine what it was.

“We have arrived,” Bai Jingshen said with a hint of excitement. “That’s the Azure Dragon’s palace.”

Alex nodded. He had expected as much. He brought out Whisker from his Soul Space, taking him away from whatever he was doing. The mouse would not get to see such a place again and again, so it needed to experience this.

Whisker appeared inside his robe and snuck his head out, looking ahead at the dome.

Pearl stood up as well, his body rigid in nervousness. Unlike Alex and Bai Jingshen, this wasn’t just another place he was visiting.

To him, this was the birthplace of his father he never got to meet.

To him, this was his home as well.

Bai Jingshen rubbed Pearl on the back. “Are you okay?” he asked.

“I’m fine,” Pearl replied, but it was half a second too late to be the truth. He had a lot in his mind.

“That’s a weird shape,” Whisker said. “Why is it not a half-sphere?”

As the teal barrier got closer, the others could see that as well. The shape of the barrier, while spherical in nature, wasn’t something that someone got to see a lot of times.

It was as though the barrier had been prepared half its distance too high up in the air, so instead of forming a dome, it had formed three-quarters of a sphere.

“It is weird,” Alex said with a curious look. “One would expect the center of the sphere to be perfectly level with the ground. Here, it’s up in the air for some reason.”

“That’s because they need the vertical height,” Bai Jingshen said from the side.

“Oh?” Alex said with a curious look. “Is the palace tall? And maybe bulging in the middle?”

Bai Jingshen was about to answer, but he stopped himself. “You’ll see soon enough.”

Alex looked forward to it.

As they got closer, the barrier surrounding the Azure Dragon’s palace drew nearer and nearer. Outside of the barrier, there was a giant city sprawled all around the area, the expanse cleared of most trees. Thᴇ link to the origɪn of this information rᴇsts ɪn novᴇlfire.net

Alex could also see a barren land to the right that had beasts seemingly training with each other. They were so far away that even with his sight, it took him a while to make out what beasts they were.

The barrier itself was the main attraction for him. As he got closer, it became abundantly clear that this barrier was larger than the White Tigers’. Perhaps not by a lot, but certainly larger.

Alex couldn’t be any more excited to see the inside now.

The ship slowly descended before they even got to the barrier, surprising Alex. He had expected them to directly enter the barrier on the ship, but it appeared it was going to be something different.

The ship landed on an open field, letting Alex see the surrounding houses and buildings. He saw the architecture there, seemingly copied from humans and demons, with very minor changes to fit the beasts.

There wasn’t much to look at.

What instead drew his eyes was a single giant road at the center of the city, completely empty, with the houses and roofs on either side of it filled to the brim with beasts.

From the sky, it looked normal as ever, but down here, it was a startling sight.

The beasts got off the ship one by one, Qing Zhangru taking the lead to escort the White Tigers’ patriarch.

The White Tigers’ patriarch appearing in public was a rare event as it was, but him appearing in public in another continent was on another level.

The last time the patriarchs had gathered together was in the Fighting Island when they became the mediators for the Humans and the Demons. That had been over ninety thousand years ago now, and even then these patriarchs had not appeared in someone else’s continent.

This was perhaps the first time in over a hundred thousand years that any patriarch had gone to the palace of another heavenly beast. This was an event that no one would want to miss.

What was going to happen next was a massive procession as the White Tigers slowly made their way through the road that led to the giant palace before them, hidden behind the teal barrier.

Alex could already imagine all the questioning eyes that would land on him, the only human of the group.

‘Maybe I should get a Creation to turn me into a beast just so I don’t have to stand out among them.’