Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Once Alex had gone through the 38 elemental Daos, he had to go through the few remaining ones that were either elemental-adjacent, or simply didn’t have anything to do with the elements at all.

He produced an aura belonging to his Dao of Plant Growth, which the artifact accepted immediately as the 39th Dao. It had been one of the first Daos he had learned, but ever since Whisker had learned it as well, Alex hadn’t had the need to make use of it, so it had been a little wasted for the past few centuries.

The next aura he produced was for the Dao of Five Elemental Interaction. He had long since moved past this Dao to learn a better version of it, but that didn’t mean that it wasn’t a valid Dao.

After the artifact accepted it, Alex used the Dao of Seven Elemental Interaction, which was the better and slightly different version of the previous Dao. That made a total of 41 Daos, and Alex had already moved past that one as well.

The next one he used was the one he had learned most recently.

Dao of Spirit Root Interaction.

It wasn’t a Dao Alex knew all on its own, as the moment he had learned it, he had learned a combination of three Daos, forming into a Greater Dao. That was what he had truly learned.

Before going into that, Alex wanted to go through the 2 remaining normal Daos.

The first of the last 2 normal Daos he knew was the Dao of Techniques. And the last one was the Dao of Blood Aura.

In total, he had learned 44 unique Daos.

The 44 pings outside were bound to have caused quite a bit of a commotion. Alex could only imagine how they were feeling.

And now, he moved on to the other three.

The only Greater Dao he had was the Greater Dao of Spirit Roots and Elements.

According to the Sky God, certain True Daos were far too vast to learn all of their unique Daos in their entirety before the True Dao could be learned. In such cases, Daos that fell under a certain category inside the main True Dao were combined to become a singular Dao, which was the Greater Dao.

Simple combination Daos could not work, otherwise Liz would have registered one as well. The only person with a Greater Dao was Ronron, who had produced 2 tong sounds.

Considering Alex’s understanding of the element of Wood, it dealt with not just wood and nature, but also everything related to Wind, Sound, Lightning, and in some cases, even poison.

If any of the elements had Greater Daos, it was that one.

And Ronron had 2.

Once the Greater Dao was accepted, Alex moved on to his 2 True Daos.

* * * * * *

Riftblade slowly placed the medallion down as he realized Alex was finally done with it all. He gulped a little, murmuring the number of Daos he had ended up registering.

47

Riftblade couldn’t make sense of that number. Neither did he want to. Even the most talented cultivators in the world did not have that many Daos learned at all. Most people were experts in certain fields and learned a lot of Daos there.

The Sky God had a True Wood Dao and nearly all of the Space Daos. But she did not have anything related to the other elements.

Similarly, someone like the Stone God would have learned all of the Daos of Earth, and maybe part of the Daos of Metal, but she couldn’t have learned the Dao of Yin or Dao of Water.

The Storm God was the same. So was the Winter God, the Fire God, the Ocean God.

Everyone.

He knew of not a single person who knew more Daos than Alex did in that very moment. There was certainly a chance that there were some, but if there were, then he didn’t know of them.

”Two True Daos,” the man murmured with a strange look on his face.

Finally, he dropped the medallion back into the hands of the young man who had been in charge of it all this time and slowly walked back toward his seat.

Maybe, Riftblade wondered, Alex just might end up becoming a god after all.

The young man who received the medallion back looked through it and quickly understood what had gotten Riftblade so shaken. The information was quickly spread through the room like wildfire.

Riftblade thought of stopping it from leaking at first, but since others had already seen it back in the testing grounds, there was no point in hiding any of it.

* * * * * *

The two loud gongs were enough to break the people out of their stunned trance as Alex registered his final 2 Daos.

The True Fire Dao and the True Metal Dao.

Once they were accepted, he walked out of the platform.

As soon as he did, one of the several paths carved into the wall glowed for him, beckoning for him to enter it.

Alex looked through the group, none of whom were able to look past him, and smiled.

”Thank you all for playing fairly in our little game,” Alex said. ”You had a head start, and you all chose not to make use of it. I am grateful to see you all wait for me to be done.”

No one said anything at all at first, doing nothing but simply watching him with strange expressions.

Then, after some time, Fang Xianhai stepped forward and bowed slightly.

”I am honored to have met someone as talented as you, Brother Dawnblade,” Fang Xianhai said. ”I wish to speak with you in the future regarding several of the Daos you’ve learned and how you did so.”

Alex accepted. ”I would be happy to, Brother Xianhai.”

He looked around. ”I welcome anyone who wishes to do so as well.”

The many people finally stirred out of their stupor and bowed toward Alex, before wordlessly walking through their gates.

Alex turned toward Ronron and the others.

”We should head in as well,” he told them. ”We better get started as quickly as we can.”