Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Once Alex was done with the Water root tests, he didn’t perform any more tests for the next 3 or so months. He used that time to not only let his body return to normal, but also to measure his baseline once more to make sure that all the tests hadn’t affected it at all.

In the meantime, he took in all the information from his many tests over the past 2 years and gained a general idea of how one’s cultivation speed changed based on the degree of their spirit root quality.

What had surprised Alex the most from the tests were not the results of any of the tests at all, but rather his own baseline. The mere fact that only one of those many tests managed to even gain half as much as his baseline average was shocking to him.

He knew that his Unity was quite strong from the start, but this was beyond what he had expected.

Not only that, his baseline was also quite stable. There wasn’t as much fluctuation between the lowest and highest values when compared to the proportional difference between the other tests.

The only time this was reversed was when he ate a cultivation pill. As though an exponential increment, his lowest value improved by less than 3 times, but his highest value improved by 8 times over.

None of the other tests had this big a difference when using a cultivation pill.

That gave Alex enough of an idea as to how the cultivation pill helped with one’s cultivation base, so he likely would not need to do that test any further. Cutting out that test in particular would drop the amount of tests he needed to do going further by half.

Alex believed he could get rid of more tests once he did more tests with the other spirit roots. He certainly wouldn’t need to test the difference between a regular Wood root, a stronger Wood root, and a weaker Wood root.

The chances that they would have any different a result to the Water spirit root was downright impossible.

Still, just to make sure, he would do it for the Wood root alone. If the results were as expected, he would skip it, and then maybe try it once again when he reached the Supreme roots.

For the next year, Alex performed the same type of tests with the Wood root, gaining a somewhat better score.

Wood root alone gave him an average of 135 score.

Wood root in addition to wood treasures gave him an average score of 764.

A stronger Wood root with wood treasures only increased his average score to 793.

And a weaker Wood root with wood treasures dropped his average score to 311.

Wood root with wood treasures and Neutral root improved his score to 834.

And finally, using Wood root in addition to turning his neutral root to Wood root pushed his average score to 1085.

On average, the scores he gained from his Wood roots were slightly better than his Water root, but just as he had expected, they were not that different.

Alex rested for some more time, letting his baseline return to normal and his body get used to having all 8 spirit roots. Then, he did the test for his Earth root.

Earth root in addition to earth treasures gave him an average score of 783.

He skipped the other tests, understanding already that there was no point in doing those tests. He could instead save those pills for when he moved on to the next set of tests.

He did perform one other test, more to check how high a score he could get than anything. Using Earth root in addition to turning his neutral root to Earth root pushed his average score to 1103.

The differences between his various roots were in accordance with the quality of his roots, but with a proper cultivation method, it could likely be rectified easily.

Finally, Alex tested his Fire root, which gave a slightly better, but still similar result.

By now, Alex had gained a good idea of what his scores were meant to be, so he moved on to his Yin root. And that was when the first major change came.

Cultivating with just the Yin root gave Alex an average score of 98. This was easily the worst score Alex had received until now, including when he cultivated with just his neutral root.

It didn’t take him any time at all to find out the issue, which was that his body actively suppressed the Yin root, making it difficult to cultivate with it.

Alex tried a few more tests with it, including tests using cultivation pills, but it was obvious he couldn’t get that high a score with it. It was barely half as good as his weakest root. Even when using a cultivation pill, Alex couldn’t improve it that much.

The only choice Alex had for now was to skip past the Yin root and focus on the other ones, but he was aware of the fact that he just couldn’t do that. The path forward was not to ignore the Yin root, but to find a way to help it instead.

Alex considered his various options, from using Intent, to making a pill to help reduce the effects of his body on the root, but he saw no possible way to affect it in any reasonable manner. He could come up with a recipe for a pill that could temporarily help him, but the ingredients for it were far too rare, and he didn’t want to leave to go searching for them.

Instead, Alex found that he had only one option. It would take the work of a god to help him, and given that he was already half of one, he decided to help himself.

Alex closed his eyes and connected his mind to Heaven, arriving within the world of white space. There, using the decades of collected Primordial energy, he made a request of Heaven.

”Free my Yin Qi from the effects of my body.”