Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

With the addition of one more Azure Dragon to his group, Alex’s understanding of the blood grew even more. He was able to isolate even more commonalities between the blood of Azure Dragons, gaining a greater understanding.

However, he still needed more.

After talking to the three, Alex came to learn a bit more about the dragons’ family tree. The Azure Dragon progenitor had three children, two sons and one daughter. The second son had gained the strongest bloodline and gave birth to the current patriarch.

The first son was the uncle to the current patriarch, who was still alive, while the aunt had passed away. Two of the dragons that were with Alex belonged to the bloodline that came from the first son, and one came from the second son.

None of the four blood samples he had managed to gather came from the progenitor’s daughter. As such, Alex needed enough blood that he could piece together the bloodline from all three children of the progenitor, thus pushing his understanding of the Azure Dragon’s blood to the greatest level.

That meant he had a lot more dragon blood to obtain.

Alex and the dragons had come to the edge of a riverbank, sitting next to it, hearing the calming sound of the water flowing in the river. All three of the dragons were in deep cultivation, not a single one of them using their pills.

A nine-veined pill was far too expensive to be used in such a place, after all. They needed to be in closed cultivation to use them. These would likely be the pills that would help send them beyond the Divine Realm threshold.

While the dragons cultivated, Alex was in the midst of focusing on his cauldron full of blood, not trying to study something-he had learned

enough-but instead trying to concentrate the blood before him.

This blood did not belong to the dragons. He wouldn’t make the mistake of attempting something like this with a precious resource like that. This was just blood that was leftover from the beasts he had killed back in Hell. Their corpses still covered his Soul Space, and he could retrieve them anytime, blood and all.

There were parts of the blood that he wouldn’t need, most of which was just water. Slowly removing the water itself concentrated the blood quite highly, but that alone wouldn’t be enough. The aspects of the blood that gave one the power of a bloodline needed to be concentrated too. That was the main thing Alex was going for.

Beasts from Hell didn’t have that strong a bloodline. They did have incredibly strong blood aura, but their bloodline itself was mediocre, so Alex hoped he would have an easier time working with it.

He had no idea where to even begin with what he was trying to attempt, so he just pulled a portion of the blood out of the cauldron and began.

Alex’s first attempt involved him trying to remove water directly from the blood, concentrating it. He failed almost immediately. While he did succeed in pulling out the water, he failed to realize that doing so would coagulate the blood almost immediately, making it useless.

Alex threw away the blood and pulled another portion out. In his second attempt, he pulled out water again but at a much slower speed, while concentrating on the blood as well, stopping it from coagulating.

Something went wrong again, only this time he didn’t even know what. The bloodline power within the blood just… faded away.

‘Again!’

The third attempt failed in a similar way, causing Alex to wonder if removing water might not be the right way. But he still continued, hoping to figure out what it was that went wrong.

It took three more attempts before Alex realized that he could not remove all the water. Water wasn’t just the liquid that made the blood but also most of the thing that he wanted to keep intact. Without more understanding of what he had to remove and what he had to keep behind, he couldn’t just remove all water.

His next five attempts helped him get closer to figuring out what needed to go and what needed to stay.

Alex continued trying, hoping to get it right the next time. It took him twenty attempts to extract just the unnecessary water from the

blood, keeping it concentrated.

Over a day had passed since he started, and he was finally past the first hurdle, which was also sadly the easiest one of them all. Next, he would need to remove the part that didn’t need to be there.

Alex decided to wait a while before he made further attempts. He stood up from where he sat, letting the dragons continue their cultivation, and made his way up the hill to take a look at where Pearl had reached.

When he arrived at the top, his eyes activated, and he saw the bright golden color that was Pearl’s aura. He could see him from this distance, seeing the calmness that surrounded him. He seemed to be resting or cultivating.

“Are you done with your task?” a voice called out.

Alex turned around in a hurry, his sword floating out into his hand. As he turned, he saw a figure standing before him, clad in a very weak blue aura-weaker than most beasts he had seen around here.

Alex blinked, and his eyes deactivated, leaving behind just the black-haired woman that had defeated him all those months earlier.

Alex gripped his sword tightly, his eyes narrowed in thought. Was she dangerous? That was a stupid question, really. With how strong she was, she was clearly dangerous. But was she dangerous to him? He could not tell.

“Who are you?” Alex asked.

“Just someone with some intrigue,” the woman said.

Alex pointed at her, gesturing to her chest. “Last time, I was far too

flustered to notice it, but you aren’t wearing any artifact,” he said. “Everyone who enters here has to wear an artifact. Why don’t you have any?”

The woman smiled, not answering.

“You don’t belong here, do you?”