Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

The moment had come.

Both the snake and the tortoise were beginning to show significant changes to their body. The colors on the brown snake had grown darker, inching closer to becoming black.

The same was true of the tortoise, its shell losing its barely visible spots, and the gray getting much darker than before. Its hide grew quite thick as well.

Their bodies grew since they had entered and improved their

bloodline, so their body and soul were no longer similar enough for them to remain as one.

The body did what it had to. It trembled violently, wounds appearing all around, trying to change to match the soul, while the soul too changed on the inside to match the body.

Only the difference had grown far too much and far too fast for any of that to work. The unity that existed between a body and soul had also ended up degrading as a result, so their cultivation didn’t help at all.

At this point, unless Alex helped them, they would die.

“They won’t, Alex told himself. ‘Something is going to happen soon. The change is coming. Their soul will grow!

If his focus could burn, the two beasts would’ve been ash by then. Alex rejected all other distractions and focused solely on the trembling snake. He did not want to miss any part of whatever was happening next.

A sudden change came upon the snake’s behavior. Its outwardly intense wounds and trembling came to a shimmer as the entire beast calmed down.

Alex frowned. Did the beast improve all on its own? Did its soul make the leap somehow?

What had happened? Alex couldn’t tell because he didn’t sense a damn thing.

The tortoise calmed all the same. Both the brothers had somehow made some improvement to their soul or body or something. Without properly testing the beasts, he couldn’t tell anything.

The blood drained from the pool once again, and the two beasts slowly came out of their trance.

Alex sighed, unable to understand the situation. Was he just wrong that this was the moment? Was the moment still coming? Or was this all there was to evolution?

Just improve and evolve.

‘Not a goddamn chance, Alex thought. ‘Everything would be so much simpler if that were the case. And nothing in life is that simple. I’m missing something. What did I miss?’

Alex wondered if focusing on the snake alone was the mistake. He had ignored every other thing that had happened during that period, so maybe he needed to broaden his senses.

As the pool emptied and much thicker blood poured out of the statue, Alex waited. As the pool filled, he took a deep breath, preparing. Once the beasts started the absorption process once again, Alex focused and searched for anything and everything that changed in that pool. He had to wait for some time for the bloodline elements pouring into the beasts to change them quicker than their body could handle. Once again, they fell into terrible pain as their soul and body fell out of communication, neither understanding the other one as well.

The beasts let out involuntary groans from the pain that became more and more frequent as time went on. And then, everything began calming down once again.

Alex did his absolute best to find out what was happening, and yet he didn’t sense anything.

‘Is there really nothing happening?’ he thought, refusing to believe it. And then, he remembered the words he spoke with the matriarch. ‘Only those with strong senses are forced to speak the oath, he thought. “They made me speak the oath because they thought my senses were strong enough. But I’m no Divinity yet. I have no Divine sense. What if… they overestimated me? My spiritual sense might be strong enough to be compared to Divine sense, but that doesn’t mean it is Divine sense.

Alex thought for a single moment and knew what he had to do.

He stared at the beasts, the changes that came upon them. It was clear that they were still far from being ‘evolved, but they were reaching that point.

A few sessions more and they would.

‘I have time,’ Alex thought and stood up, completely ignoring the

beasts for now. He walked as far away from the pool as he could and separated the space between him and the pool so as to not

completely disturb the two beasts.

“If the quality of my spiritual sense is what is stopping me from sensing whatever is going on, then all I can do is improve it.”

He closed his eyes, his mind lost in countless thoughts. Time slowed for him, physically, as he employed the dao to help him think faster. His mind raced through every possible scenario in the hours that

passed for him.

And then, at the end of it all, he opened them, having come up with something important.

A recipe.

Memory arrived before him in a flash and so did a bunch of

ingredients. Fire came to life underneath her and he placed in the

first of the ingredients.

Alex was in no hurry to make the pill quickly. Since this was his first

time making it, it was important that it came out proper rather than fast. Ingredient after ingredient, Alex refined everything he had until a

pill formed.

The pill clouds formed, only on the inside, and even that was

separated from the pool because of the subspace he had created within here. Pill lightning fell upon Memory, one after another, until

all nine struck down.

The pill clouds were finally gone, and all that was left for Alex was a single pill inside the cauldron.

Alex picked out the pill and smiled slightly. He hadn’t the faintest idea

if this would help him with his issue or not, but he had to take his

chances.

The spatial walls vanished and Alex walked back toward the pool. He

sat down patiently, waiting for the moment when the two beasts

would begin their painful sessions once again.

When they did, Alex ate the pill.