Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

The man was bloodied, with missing flesh and frozen skin, when the attacks came to an end. Alex walked back casually, smiling the entire time.

”I believe the battle is over.”

The battle was indeed over, and many of the people in the crowd hadn’t even realized that. They were too busy trying to understand how Alex had possibly beaten someone who was over an entire major realm higher than him.

”You... you hid your cultivation base,” the man said as he slowly stood up.

Alex looked toward him. ”Is that forbidden by any chance?” he asked.

The man snarled at him, but Alex didn’t want to bother with him more than that. He simply presented his palm toward him.

”Hand over the stars.”

The man paused, and then he sucked in a deep breath as the realization settled on him that he had indeed just lost, which meant that he was set to lose so many stars at once.

His heart sank in his chest as he looked up toward Alex. His eyes pleaded for something he would never receive. Alex watched him without much pity in his eyes and simply waited for him to hand over the 12 thousand stars.

The man did so reluctantly in the end, giving Alex back more than what he had spent to cultivate. He was quite happy.

He turned toward the group and looked at everyone. ”Does anyone want to challenge me next?”

Not a single person there dared. In fact, many of them would refuse even if they could in that moment, as they preferred Alex’s win to the man who had just lost.

”You’ve hidden yourself well in my community,” a woman’s voice came for Alex.

Alex found Luo Qingruo walking toward him as the crowd parted for her. He hadn’t interacted with her until now, so he hadn’t been properly introduced at all.

”You must be Luo Qingruo,” Alex said.

”And you are?”

”The Sun God,” Alex said. ”Please refer to me as such.”

”Sun God?” the woman mulled over the words before shaking her head. ”That’s quite the pretentious name. I would rather not.”

”Is it pretentious to have a title?” Alex asked.

”A title of a God? Yes, it is.”

Alex shrugged. ”I am one, but you don’t have to believe me,” he said. ”So... are you going to challenge me, or am I free to leave?”

The woman’s eyes narrowed. She looked toward the man Alex had just defeated.

”Those were some strong attacks,” she said before turning back to Alex. ”What’s your actual cultivation base?”

Alex shrugged. ”What if you’re looking at it?”

”That would mean your Battle Power is what... 8?” she asked.

”10, actually,” Alex said.

The woman shook her head. ”And that would be impossible.”

”For a regular person, sure,” Alex said with a grin. ”But I am a god. The Sun God.”

The woman narrowed her eyes for a moment before smiling a little. ”Fine, I will find the truth myself. Let’s see who is stronger between us.”

Alex felt himself be challenged and smiled a little. ”What would you want the challenge to be? I’m willing to go with your choice. You simply have to refer to me by my title.”

Qingruo was intrigued. ”Fine, Sun God. Let us fight without any rules or restrictions.”

Alex smiled. ”Very well then. Fight with no rules and restrictions we shall.”

As soon as Alex said the words, the challenge was set, and the two got ready to fight. The crowd dispersed farther away as the two would be fighting henceforth with no rules at all.

Luo Qingruo brought out her sword, a thin red blade with a slightly curved white hilt. Sword Qi immediately surrounded it as she prepared to attack.

Alex pulled out his sword as well, a simple one in contrast to the woman’s colorful weapon. ”Since you called me as I asked you to, I will give you one simple warning.”

The woman raised an eyebrow. ”Yeah? What’s that?”

”You should use your Divine Qi right from the start.”

Alex swung simply, sending out an attack that carried with it his Sword Qi. The woman sensed the attack coming and fought back instantly with her regular Qi, only to realize just how weak it was against the attack.

She barely managed to dodge it as the attack landed on the ground some distance behind her, where it dug into the earth and let out a cloud of dirt into the sky.

The woman looked at the result of the attack and then back at Alex, her eyes wide with shock now. He wasn’t joking at all.

”You really are strong,” she said, turning back around. ”Are you... a Sentinel? Is that why you have us challenging you?”

”I’m not,” Alex said. ”As you can sense, I’m still very much an Immortal that hasn’t even formed his Spirit yet.”

Luo Qingruo sensed it and wasn’t sure if she was happy that she wasn’t fighting a hidden Divinity, or worried that there was an actual Immortal Transcendent realm cultivator out there who could force her to use her Divine Qi right from the start.

One of those had implications that she didn’t even want to think about.

Qingruo took a deep breath for a moment as she calmed her heart and mind, and then she looked directly at Alex. Light blossomed behind her, creating a large illusory image of two rich brown eyes with vertical slits.

Alex felt something happen to him right then, as if something heavy had landed on his shoulders. Rather, it was his entire body that had grown heavy instead of something pressing upon it. That was the power of her Spirit.

She was trying to make his movement sluggish.

Alex could easily get rid of the power of her Spirit, but he decided he didn’t want to do that. She had called him Sun God, after all, so he wanted to be a little helpful.

With all the weight in his body, he raised his arms with his sword and swung down, starting the fight proper with his first true attack.