Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2230  Great Fog Valley

It was true that Alex was neglecting a major part of what it meant to be a master. He needed to stay and teach his disciple, set a significant portion of his life to depart his knowledge onto her. But, he couldn't do it. He didn't have the luxury.

"I'm sorry, but I need to focus on the pill I am supposed to make more than I can on teaching you for now," Alex said.

His words caused Momo to feel even more dejected. "I… I understand, master."

Alex could see that she didn't like it, but he couldn't help it. He sighed and patted her head a little. "Don't worry, even though I will be gone for long. I will have someone coming very soon to teach you about everything else. He is one of the best teachers around besides me."

"Oh!" Momo looked up to meet his eyes. "Who?"

"It's a secret for now, but he's coming very soon," Alex said. He got up. "For now, you focus on those three techniques and cultivation. And don't push yourself too hard."

He turned to look at Pearl. "Don't let her make any mistakes, Pearl."

"Don't worry, brother. I'll take good care of her. You focus on finding those ingredients."

Alex nodded. "Here's a few spirit stones. Get what she needs, if she needs anything. She has the rest."

Pearl nodded and Momo waved her hand in goodbye.

Alex walked away, placing the vial of blood into his Soul Space. It did not record what he put into it. He sent the vial directly into the Playground where the playground spirit took a look at it.

Alex wasn't expecting anything great, but the Playground spirit surprised him.

"Master, there is something within this blood that matches with something within my database. I will need a few moments to make sure that I am correct."

"Okay," Alex said, curious what it was he was going to find. He made his way out of the city, making sure to learn what 'rule' this city had.

Thankfully, there was no rule set up in this city. One could go in and out as they wished, so Alex left, flying off to the west.

On the way, Playground finally replied, answering him the truth about Momo's heritage.

"She has a Poison physique, master, but a dormant one. I'm sorry it took me some time to figure it out. The dormancy is difficult to see through with my current strength."

"Dormant Poison physique?" Alex asked, surprised. He had checked the girl and noticed nothing of that sort in her. "What does it do?"

"She can consume poison to make her body poisonous," Playground repeated. "One at a time, she can increase the toxicity of her body. It will affect everything regarding her, including her spiritual sense."

"Poisonous spiritual sense?" Alex asked. "Is that even possible?"

"That is what the knowledge within me says, so it must be," the Playground replied.

"So I must feed her poisons? And the higher the grade she consumes the better her body?" Alex asked.

"Yes," the Playground said. "But you must be careful. Her body can only handle so much poison, so you must increase her tolerance by feeding her weaker poison."

"I understand," Alex said. "That's no different than how Body cultivation works. You start off with weaker pain and slowly evolve your way to getting used to bigger wounds until you get stronger. Thank you."

"Always, master."

Alex thought of how he could help Momo while on the way to the valley. He thought about all the poison he would purchase for her. That should more or less help her improve her body.

"Huh? A part of that is similar to the Poison Fighting sect's physique," Alex thought. When he thought about it a bit longer, he realized it was in a way similar to his body as well. Only his resistance to poison came from his cultivation base, rather than his body.

He was still affected by poison if they were strong.

"I can worry about it later," Alex thought as he saw the massive blanket of white mist in the distance. The fog covered the entire mountain tops, blanketing it over and spreading down below.

The fog covered more than just a few mountains. Alex couldn't see it clearly, but the size that it was, it was easily covering over 50 mountains. The valleys were the land between all of those mountains.

'Great Fog Valley,' Alex thought, looking at the place before him.

Alex could see a steady stream of people going in and out of the fog. There weren't many people around here, but there were enough for him to worry if all the ingredients had already been taken away.

He knew that most outsiders had been banned from stripping a free forest or alchemy gardens of its natural resources, so there had to be many ingredients. But given how many had come over in the last 5 days, he worried more than a few had already collected a majority of the ingredients.

Alex got down to the mountain right before the fog and looked through it. For some reason, the fog seemed an excellent spot to hide. He couldn't understand why, but his spiritual senses were being disrupted by the fog.

There was something in the fog that made it hard for him to spread his Spiritual energy thin.

'Well, I can't waste my time here,' Alex thought and jumped down into the fog.

The moment Alex touched the fog, he realized that the entire fog was made up of tiny droplets of spirit water, suspended in the air. It was this water that was causing his spiritual sense to get disrupted. It was no different from being put into a room with thousands of different lanterns flickering all around him. The light wasn't dangerous, but it sure as hell was distracting.

And if the room was bigger, the distraction became bigger too. So the further he spread his spiritual sense, the more it felt unstable, even though there was nothing wrong with it.

'I will just have to get used to this place,' Alex thought and walked into the fog. He had to get closer to the plants to make sure he found the ingredients.

He also couldn't rely on his eyes as much since the entire world was filled with color if he did so. So all he could do was get close and find the ingredients with his spiritual sense.

Alex found a few ingredients within just the first 10 minutes. A few Willoweed branches, some Horsetail Fern, a Jade Soul flower, a few Exalted Spirit buds, and some more. He had to walk around a lot more, but compared to the mountains outside of the Hollowvine City, this was so much better. He was actually finding ingredients.

Alex searched for some more and came across a bunch more. He walked down the mountain, going deeper into the fog, searching for him.

As he went through it, he stopped as he noticed something he had been looking for. A bright, metallic-yellow 4-petaled flower known as Golden Mind Chrysanthemum.

He needed 10 petals of this flower to make the pill for the competition.

Alex plucked the flower and placed it into his storage bag before moving on.