Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Shumi was somewhat taken aback. “What can work?”

“Voidgate!” Alex said out loud again, but Shumi had no way of understanding what he meant, so Alex had to explain it to her.

He relayed his attempt at trying to absorb the Void’s aura into his Origin to create a Creation out of it. But because he wasn’t able to view the Void as something singular, he was struggling to complete his objective.

However, if he were to stop viewing the Void as a Void and started accepting it as a Voidgate instead, he could accomplish the task of perceiving the Void as a single object. Thus, it would allow him to absorb its aura into his Origin.

Shumi remained with an agape face for some time, unable to form a single word.

“I don’t know if I should call you ambitious or egotistical,” she said with a dry laugh. “Even the most stupidly self-confident people know to stay away from the Void when creating their Origin, and yet you are seriously trying to do it. And what’s worse is that I fear you will succeed.”

“Do you think so?” Alex asked with a smile.

Shumi smiled back. “You’re the man that sealed a God and tamed a Primordial, aren’t you? This should be easy.”

The smile glued itself to Alex’s face for quite some time as he rewired his brain into seeing the opening as a Voidgate, or at least an opening into the Void itself.

He was somewhat worried in the back of his mind that doing so would completely change how the Creation was supposed to work, but so long as it allowed him to open a gate into the Void, that would be enough.

There was hardly ever going to be another use case for the Void Creation anyway. It was not as though he could ever individually use the Space and Time auras from within it. So, this was fine.

Once Alex fully saw the opening as nothing but a Voidgate, his Origin immediately began absorbing the collective aura that came toward it.

So long as he lied to himself, it seemed to work.

The aura from the Void was quite strong, but Alex needed far too much of it to fully fill his Origin. It was still much faster than his other Origins such as the Yellow Fog and Blank Canvas pill, so he could be much quicker with it.

Alex imagined that even if he had to spread his absorption time between the Heavenly Clouds and the Sun Fire later on, he could at least absorb enough Void aura so that he could break through to the Immortal Transcendent 4th realm.

His main priority now was to elevate each of his Origins to a point where he could start breaking through to higher realms.

Shumi stayed by his side quietly for some time, watching him absorb the aura into his body. She was surprised that he was in fact succeeding too.

The reason people failed to absorb the aura coming out of Voidgates was because the Voidgate was far too complex for regular people to understand it enough to let their Origin absorb it.

In a way, since the Origin was the manifestation of one’s Soul, one had to fully learn something before they could imprint it into their soul. So, the idea of absorbing the Void was rarely ever in someone’s mind.

And yet, Shumi could see that Alex was actively doing it, and the possibility that he was absorbing a weaker version was also absurdly low. Even though her senses weren’t working as well in this place, she could sense the Void very well when she was this close and make the judgment.

Once Alex got the hang of absorbing the Void aura, she finally asked him a question she had been wanting to ask for some time.

“Do you feel the reverence too?” Shumi asked.

“No,” Alex answered without turning.

“Because you are the Sun God?”

Alex shrugged. “Maybe? It’s hard to tell if I’m the Sun God or not since

I have a very small amount of the unique energy that he said was him. It could also be that not having to revere a god is one of the properties of the Sun God’s evolved Yang body.”

“I see,” Shumi said. “Then, do you still feel the connection to me?”

Alex slowly turned toward her, actively sensing for the connection as he did so. After a few seconds, he shook his head. “It’s no longer there,” he said. “If there is one, it’s likely hidden away because I’ve sealed away the Sun God.”

“And because the Moon Goddess is dead,” Shumi added. “I don’t feel the connection either.”

Alex remained silent for some time before asking a question of his own. “Then, do you still like me?” he asked.

Shumi let out a sonorous laugh. “Of course,” she said. “How could I not?”

Alex let out a soft sigh. “That’s good. I still very much like you too.”

Shumi chuckled slightly. “We should have started like this, but we went about our relationship in the wrong order, did we not?”

“Well, the gods were in a hurry,” Alex said before looking at her with a serious face. “You don’t regret it, do you?”

“Regret? No, I wouldn’t use that word,” Shumi said as her gaze moved down to the grass below. “I had just hoped that it would have more meaning to us, rather than it being something the gods forced upon

us.”

“The gods are gone now,” Alex said. “So we can give it whatever

meaning we want to give it.”

Shumi looked back at him, a blush growing on her cheeks.

“Can we?”

Alex froze momentarily, his mind split in half.

He took a moment to gather himself internally before he stared at the opening in the Void itself, through which he constantly absorbed its

aura.

Slowly, he retracted his own body from the opening, letting the gate close back up.

Absorbing the Void could wait for the moment. There was something of higher priority on the agenda now.