Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2233  Some Progress

Momo gasped and grabbed her mouth in shock at the sight of Whisker talking. "You can speak!" she said.

"Of course, I can speak," Whisker said. "Why would I not be able to speak?"

"But you're so… tiny," she said.

"That has nothing to do with speaking. Besides, I can grow," Whisker said, slowly growing until he was the size of a regular cat. It was quite large for a mouse.

"Oh… you're not cute anymore, Uncle Whisker," Momo said. Whisker shrunk back to a smaller size. "I do not want to be called cute," he said.

"Anyway, this is Whisker, and he will be in charge of teaching you," Alex said. "Pearl is a good teacher… but he's nowhere near as good as Whisker when it comes to cultivation and alchemy. He will teach you while I am gone."

"Okay," Momo said excitedly. "Then does that mean we can start learning now? It's been a week since I became your disciple but I haven't even tried to make a single pill, master."

Alex thought for a bit. "No, let's wait a little longer. You are not ready yet," he said. "Whisker, help her with her cultivation for now. I will need to go make some pills."

Whisker jumped down from Alex's hand and landed right on Momo's shoulders. "You can leave it to me, brother. I will take care of her."

Pearl looked at everything around him and asked. "Wait, so what do I do now?" he asked. Without the need to teach Momo, there wasn't much for him to do."

"You can do whatever you want," Alex said. "I think you should cultivate. If you reach the Immortal Origin realm soon, it will be great."

"I would rather do that once I have the pills, brother. I'm so used to that speed that anything less just doesn't feel right," Pearl said. Alex sighed. "Then you'll have to wait a few more days for me to get the ingredients for the better ones," he said.

Pearl shrugged. "I suppose I will wait for a few days then."

Alex nodded. "I'll go make the pills then," he said and walked into the alchemy room, leaving the rest by themselves.

Whisker looked toward Momo and asked, "What have you learned so far?" he asked.

"Oh, Master taught me a cultivation technique, and then asked me to learn these 3…" Momo explained the situation as best she could to Whisker, hoping he would be of help.

Pearl watched the others leave and sighed. It appeared he was going to be left alone for some time. 'I'll just go tour the city for now then,' he thought and walked out of the courtyard.

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Alex sat in the Alchemy room, looking at the many ingredients that were before him. He started looking around to see what pills he could make. Nothing amazing from what he could see, but even the okay ones would allow him enough spirit stones to teleport to another continent.

As it was, teleporting to another continent cost him somewhere between 50 and 100 thousand Immortal spirit stones. There were many factors that would go into reducing that amount, but since he had to pay full price for everything, he was going to have to pay it all as well.

Considering he was going to be working for money, he needed to be most efficient about it. That meant making high-grade pills that cost him as little as possible.

'These generic pills should at least help me buy the much-needed ingredients for the better ones,' he thought and began making them.

After going through the ingredients he tallied up the numbers and realized he could make about 22 different pills, with a lot of leftover ingredients that he didn't know what to do with right away.

He could try to make some sort of pills with them as well. It would have to wait.

Of the 22 pills, 10 were various types of pills to improve one's cultivation speed. It was good, but there were better ones. 3 of the remaining were antidote pills and 2 were healing pills. 2 other pills were Qi-restoring pills, but would only work on someone in the Immortal Ascendant realm.

Finally, the remaining pills he could make were miscellaneous pills which included face-changing pills.

Once Alex understood what he could make, making them didn't take as long at all. He quickly made the miscellaneous pills first as he didn't have to care much about their quality while he was making them.

Then, he made the healing pills, which he was a little more careful with. The ingredients there were good so he didn't want to waste any at all.

He made the other pills, taking no break in between at all. One by one, he finished the rest of the pills. All in all, it took him about 6 hours to make all of the pills. By the time he was done with it all, he could feel a significant reduction in Qi inside of his dantian. He hadn't cultivated in a while.

He needed to improve the pills once he had Qi, so he began cultivating right away. Without a pill, as Pearl mentioned, cultivation did little for him than fill up his emptied dantian.

To properly cultivate, he would have to use the many cultivation pills he had inside of his soul space, which he didn't have at the moment.

'Can I use my Soul Space once this competition is over?' Alex wondered. There was no information about it. The only thing he knew for certain was that he wouldn't have to wear the medallion when he was done with the first competition.

Maybe he would be forced to wear it during the other competitions too, but outside of it, he shouldn't have to.

'It has been 10 years since I broke through,' Alex thought. Pearl had broken through to Immortal Ascendant 9th realm recently, but he had done so a decade ago.

He had slacked off a little since then, but he had still been cultivating to reach the next realm.

The Immortal Origin realm was when he could start using the technique he received from Reverend Sixghost, so Alex was looking forward to that day. Surely he could do it within the next 2 decades.

Alex cultivated for over a day before he was filled with Qi. This was the point where his cultivation would improve him, but he stopped as he did not have the time.

Instead, he needed to complete the pills as soon as possible.

Alex pulled out one of the healing pills and held onto it. Using the Divine Elemental Accord technique, he began pouring a copy of the energy within the pill to fill in the spots that were empty.

It filled it right until the end and then beyond.

Pill clouds began forming around him and Alex allowed it to form outside as well so he could have an easier time with the pill lightning.

Since he revealed the pill clouds for everyone to see, the lightning bolts would be normal as compared to the ones he had to face after the Ritual oath.

He took a deep breath looked at clouds above him and prepared for the lightning bolts.