Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Chapter 2826: Truths

“Answer my questions truthfully,” the sect master said as the battle array landed on Alex. “Should you lie or try to fight back, our conversation will end here, and we will kill you.”

Alex felt the effects of the array on him. ‘A truth-seeking formation??’ he thought. He remembered hearing about something similar when those few Endless Night sect members were escorting him to their sect. He was supposed to be tested against a formation that sought truth, but he had always thought of them as formations carved onto the metal, not formations that were created through a battle array.

‘I can’t even call it a battle array anymore,’ Alex thought. ‘It’s just a regular array.’

These people were using their pure Intent on him to try and find the truth. This was different from pills. He couldn’t get his way out of this one so easily.

If he were to fight back against this array, these people would know.

He had to tell the truth.

“Yes, please ask your question,” Alex said, taking a moment to calm down.

The sect master looked around the desert before bringing his eyes back toward Death. His eyes remained on her for a few seconds before turning back to Alex.

“Why does she not kill you?” he asked.

“I… don’t know,” Alex answered. He had guesses, but they were just that. Guesses. He had no real answer to why he could live while everyone else around him was killed.

The sect master frowned. “Do you have any treasures on you that you are using to make her work for you, or are you using it to stay hidden from her senses?” he asked again.

“No, I have no such thing.”

The sect master scratched his beard, thinking of another question.

“Why did you bring Death here?” the man asked. “Why did you have her fight so many beasts?”

“I want to heal her, so I am doing whatever I can. I brought her here so I could drain her Divine sea in order to help the soul that may be inside her,” Alex answered truthfully. “If you leave Death alone and not kill her, I will heal her. You won’t have to kill her. Please.”

The others once again began appearing as if they were in protest of that, but the sect master didn’t listen to them.

“Are you really trying to heal her?” he asked.

Alex nodded. “Yes.”

“Can you heal her?” he asked next.

The man put a certain stress on the question, making Alex think twice before answering.

Could he heal Death?

He had certainly tried to. But, he had been to her Divine sea and there was nothing he could do in there to help her. Her soul was like a stone, unmovable. And her Creation, if that could help her, was nowhere to be found.

Alex had maybe a few more things he could do, but they were all things that he had no hopes of succeeding. In the end, the truth was, with Alex’s current understanding of what was going on with Death, he could not help her at all.

“I am doing my best to heal her,” Alex answered the man’s question, remaining as truthful as he could be.

“But can you?” the man asked.

Alex took a deep breath. “Not right now,” he said. “But I’m actively trying my best. I have a few more things I want to try. I’m an alchemist, so I’m a healer by profession. If you give me the chance, I am sure I will succeed.”

It was clear to anyone there that Alex, in fact, likely could not help Death the way he was saying he could.

“We should just kill her now, sect master. We don’t know if we will have such a chance next time. Who knows where she could be hiding,” someone suggested.

“We are wasting our time, sect master. The longer we spend our time not acting, the more she’ll recover. She might find a way to fight us. She fought all those Extolites in the past. In front of them, we are weak,” another one said.

“You are not wrong,” the sect master said. “But it wouldn’t hurt to know if Death could possibly be healed. You don’t know why she isn’t attacking you, do you?”

Alex shook his head. “I have not found out the reason just yet.”

“If you can control Death, then you might have a chance. At the very least, you could keep her away from the places with humans,” the sect master said. “But only if you can control her.”

“I can,” Alex said confidently.

“Are you sure?” the man asked. “Has Death been docile around you all the time? I don’t want to give you this chance only for you to end up dying to her. I cannot take that chance.”

“She is docile. She attacks everyone but me,” Alex said. But even as he said those words, the events a few nights back played through his mind. The time when he had made the slightest cut on Death’s palm and she had come for him.

The aggression she showed wasn’t fully gone.

And that thought was enough for the Truth array to catch that he had just lied.

The elders that were using the formation didn’t let that slip and told the sect master right away.

“A lie?” the man asked, turning around toward Alex with a disappointed look. “I really hoped you wouldn’t do that.”

The man brought out his spear. “Now, please step aside. We have no intention of harming you. We are only here for Death. We cannot let her continue on like this. It won’t be long before she starts eradicating villages and cities altogether.”

“No, I will heal her. Just give me some time. I promise.”

But the man didn’t listen. He had made up his mind, and so had the hundred different others that flew behind him.

They had come here to kill Death, and they no longer had any intention of delaying that.