Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Alex remained truthful for most of the answers he gave. He wrote down where he had come from, how old he was, everything. He even wrote down that before this, he had been part of the Poison Fighters sect for a little over 3 years.

He hoped that didn’t cause too much problem when it came to joining the Blue Silk sect.

Alex truthfully answered the questions about his professions for everything except Alchemy. He mentioned his talent when it came to Artifact, Formations, and Talismans, mentioning that he was quite versed in the final one.

But of course, Alchemy was what he was truly great at. He didn’t give away too much but mentioned the fact that he was a licensed Superior Immortal Alchemist who could consistently make pills above 80%, with many reaching 85%. In the place about weapons, he answered that he used a Sword. Upon some thought, he decided to keep his knowledge of Sword Intent to just Sword Aura. While it was true that he also knew Sword Domain, he didn’t feel it right to let those people know.

Sure it would be easy to enter the sect if he told them about his Sword Domain, but he feared leaving would be incredibly difficult.

Alex wanted to be the sort of disciple that a sect wouldn’t mind letting go.

In the end, there was a place where it said that he could put down someone as a reference if he had one. At first, Alex was about to put the Guild master Blackfrost’s name as a reference. But upon further consideration, he realized that there was someone better who could help him here. It was the same person who said that he could ask him for help should he want to join the Blue Silk sect.

Alex wrote down the name Lan Douhan.

Alex sent his talisman flying toward the woman who was gathering all of it and sat down to the side. He hoped he created enough intrigue for the people to not toss him out immediately.

Once all the talismans were collected, the woman left the room with the other two men, telling the people nothing more than that they would soon return.

The people were made to wait for a while, nearly 2 hours entirely before the middle-aged man returned with a bunch of talismans in his hand.

Once he arrived, he read them one by one, calling out the names of different people.

Alex’s name was called out toward the front, so he stood up and waited for whatever news was coming next.

After naming 40 or so people, the man was done with the names.

“Everyone else whose name did not come up. You have failed. Please leave.”

Confused murmurs and despaired noises sounded around the room as many who passed couldn’t believe that they had failed.

Alex took a deep breath to calm his panicking heart. Until the very last moment, he wasn’t sure if he had passed or failed.

The man waited for the nearly 200 people who failed to leave and watched the 40 people who stayed.

“Remain here. We will call you one by one next to verify the truth of the words in your talisman. If you have lied, you should leave now or you will forever be banned from taking the test again.”

2 people gasped in shock and quickly stood up and left the room.

Alex looked at the people who ran away, surprised that they had dared to lie even when they had been told not to do it. At least, they did well leaving now.

‘Should I leave as well?’ Alex wondered. Technically speaking, he had lied as well. He had underplayed his hand more, so it was technically lying. What if they had ways to force everything out of him?

‘If they do, then they do,’ Alex thought. ‘They would be stupid to ban me after finding out anyway.’

Alex decided to risk it.

A person was called away and the others waited patiently for their turn. Many even began cultivating to pass their time, so Alex did so as well. He soon lost himself to cultivation as people were called on one after another.

The order in which they were called made Alex realize that it was the same order as before. Which meant he was going to be called out soon enough.

Soon enough ended up being 5 hours later.

After 12 people were called away, Alex was the 13th to be called away.

Alex walked with the people, arriving at the next room where the three examiners were seated on the floor, waiting for him.

“Greetings, Seniors,” Alex said and entered.

“Come and sit, Dawnblade,” the old man said and invited him to sit in front of them.

Alex saw a small mat opposite where the three were sitting and sat down. He then looked ahead at the three people and saw a talisman in front of them.

It was the talisman he had answered just before.

“May we ask what your real name is?” the old man questioned.

“My apologies, senior, but I do not wish to share my name. I hope that is alright,” he said.

“If you don’t wish to share, I won’t force you,” the man said with a gentle smile. “We will ask you a few questions, please answer them truthfully.”

“I will, senior,” Alex said.

The woman asked the first question. “I see here that you wrote that you came from a lower world, the 3rd Major Spirit world, is that true?” she asked.

“Yes,” Alex said.

“Really?” the middle-aged man asked.

“Of course,” Alex said, confused. This was not the part he had expected them to be suspicious of at all.

“I see that you are only an Immortal Ascendant 1st realm cultivator,” the woman said. “When did you break through?”

“About 6 years ago, senior,” Alex answered. It was the same answer he had given on that talisman too.

“You broke through in your lower realm?” the woman asked again.

“Yes,” Alex said.

“What was the name of the person who accepted you when you came to this world?” she asked.

Alex tried to not show any sort of emotion in his face, but internally he frowned at the question. What sort of questions were these?

“I was accepted and taught about the world by senior Cai Dusong on the island between the three continents where I arrived after my ascension,” Alex answered.

The three looked at each other, nodding to themselves as they had to realize that the answer was correct.

“He’s prepared,” the woman said off-handedly.

“You say here that you are 2 thousand years old,” the old man said. “That is an average speed for a cultivator of this world, but it must be quite fast in your world, isn’t it?”

“It is,” Alex nodded.

“Then, you wouldn’t mind if we test your age, would you?” the old man asked.

Alex paused. “I’m sorry?” he asked, looking at the old man. “You wish to… test my age?”

“Yes,” the middle-aged man said. “We must be certain that your age is what you say it is. You should know, after all, age is a big factor in one’s potential.”

Alex looked at the men and realized that they were not going to stop until they got what they wanted.