Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex learned the technique he had gotten from the place he had no memories of—the place he believed to be Realm Within Realms. The technique itself took little time to learn, but perfecting it wasn’t as simple.

It employed the same fundamental logic of aura resonance to match the aura of your own Qi to that of another object’s aura.

In this case, the Blank Canvas Pill was constantly covered in a massive amount of Qi as Alex attempted to match the aura of the pill to his own Qi, just like the other technique had.

While the techniques were similar, Alex immediately saw some fundamental differences that made one better than the other. As for which was which would be up to the person using it.

The technique Alex got from Bai Jingshen would automatically resonate with the aura of the pill, letting him do nothing but directly absorb it. However, the amount that came from that technique was truly pitiful.

For someone who didn’t have to go through eight different Creations and could only focus on just one, this technique would most likely be quite useful, especially when the object of the technique was more or less abundant.

For Alex, that was too slow.

The other technique required Alex to create resonance with the aura of the pill. Since it wasn’t automatic, it required Alex to manually change the state of the Qi he was using constantly in an attempt to not just match the aura, but also learn it in the process.

That way, even if he no longer had access to the object later on, he could directly create the aura with his Qi and absorb it directly.

Alex liked the second one better, but that didn’t mean it was easy. So for the past three days, he had been attempting to try and match his Qi to the aura of the pill. He had changed every minute aspect of the Qi just like the other technique had, but still, he had come to no luck at all.

After another day passed, Alex gave up.

Whatever he was doing was not going to work. “I can’t rely on luck like the other technique does,” Alex said to himself. “I need to be more conscious about what changes I’m doing.”

After a few hours of rest, he started again.

This time, he didn’t immediately flood the pill with his aura but instead closed his eyes and went through the process of creating a Blank Canvas Pill in his mind. Each ingredient, each minor energy, each element change—he kept his eyes on everything that happened.

He focused on it all the way through to the end where the energy would reach a state where it would destroy its own connection to the pill and vanish, leaving behind just the shell for something else to take over.

Alex slowly opened his eyes, his thoughts still catching up to what he had realized. He raised his hand forward, and Qi flowed out of them.

However, even as it appeared, Alex was already changing it in a very specific way, based on the interaction of the elements that were in the Blank Canvas Pill’s recipe. As he did, he employed the Dao of Seven-Elemental Interaction, making it easy to get to the depth of what it was that he needed to make.

The aura he produced surrounded the pill, and while he hadn’t matched it perfectly on the first try, he was much closer now than he had been in the last four days. Taking a moment to consider, Alex changed the aura once again. This time, it got closer to the pill once again.

He took a moment to check where he might’ve made the mistake and changed it once more. Once more, it got closer. He could tell it was closer by comparing it to the aura inside his Origin. He just had to make a few more tweaks.

By methodically changing some finer aspects of the various elements within the aura, Alex landed on a final aura that perfectly matched that of the pill.

He paused for a moment, the understanding that he had succeeded sinking in slowly. He smiled ever so slightly, wondering how much longer this would’ve taken him had he not formed the previous aura.

It would’ve likely taken him months.

Instead, it had taken him less than a week from the very start.

Alex spent a few minutes sitting with the aura before taking it all in. The aura surged through his meridians, filling the Origin, adding to the minor amount it already had.

The more he filled it, the harder it would become to change it later on. But Alex had no intention of changing that.

He brought his attention to the pill again and tried to form the aura again. He failed to immediately create the same aura as before, but he was much closer, and within a minute, he changed the necessary components of the aura to match what the pill was.

He took it in again.

He tried it again a third time and a fourth. Each time, he failed in some minor way that taught him more about how he could get to the correct aura in a single turn.

He had to learn this first before he could attempt to replicate it.

After what felt like ten times, Alex had succeeded three times in a row. But on the fourth attempt, he failed.

Miserably at that too. The aura he created did not match the aura within the pill at all. What confused him was the fact that he knew he had not made a mistake. So why was the aura all wrong?

After taking a moment to see what was wrong, Alex came to the truth.

The pill he had been using had lost all of its aura. The aura resonance didn’t just copy the aura from the pill but also stripped it out of the pill. The more he tried, the more aura it leaked, until finally, it didn’t have any at all.

In the end, all Alex could do was throw away the useless pill and bring out a new one to continue.