Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2159  Progress

Immortal pills were way, way harder than Alex could have ever expected. Even making four pills at the same time took significant effort when he switched to it first.

Alex started by making the same pills at first, just like he had with the True pills. He slowly increased the number of cauldrons he used until he could increase it up to 7. That was unfortunately the most he could do right now. He needed to train a lot before he could move on to 8, let alone 10.

Alex hadn't expected how much Qi his body would have to push out when making the 7 Immortal pills at once. The amount of energy required to keep them all in line and not have them explode caused his meridian to be sore by the end of it. Were it not for his Undying Physique, Alex had no doubt he would have been much slower with his training.

Alex stopped at 7 cauldrons, choosing not to add any more. Instead, he started branching out by making different pills. That was an entirely different hurdle that he hadn't faced when compared to True and Saint pills.

Unlike those pills, Immortal pills had ingredients whose energy was strong enough to push back against his own Qi. So, he needed to consciously determine which cauldron needed how much of his Qi. The conscious effort added another level of difficulty that he hadn't been ready for.

Alex trained the best he could. He always made sure to put the dangerous pills in Memory, so it could absorb the energy and destroy the pill before anything bad could happen to it.

And there were a lot of times when that was necessary.

Memory had a steady supply of energy fed directly into it, which was much more than what Alex had given it before. The amount of energy he had put into Memory was enough to make some significant changes to it very soon.

He looked forward to that day.

Shi Quanli came by a few times to provide him with Immortal ingredients. She had, in a way, forced Alex to work with the most basic pills, bringing him the lesser desired ingredients since he was only going to be training with them.

Alex was more than happy with that, so he continued training for months while taking cultivation session breaks in between. Silvermist came to check on him a few times, and each time he came, he admired how much further Alex had come along. Despite saying that though, he never gave any words of wisdom regarding how Alex could improve.

As much as Alex hated it, it all relied on himself. Silvermist was here to show him the way. He was the one that was going to have to walk it.

Pearl came by far less often than the others. He had been turned into a staff in the sect, working a few days a week going around helping the other staff. They had learned about his small experience working in Alex's store and had placed him in a similar post.

His reward for working as such was that he would get to train with various disciples of the sect for the rest of the week. With Grimsight's training, Pearl was getting better and better at using his Spear.

2 years later, Alex finally managed to make 7 different pills at once. He did it a few more times before he was certain he could do it.

Silvermist came back once Alex notified him of that fact.

"Not the 10 I hoped, but I never expected you to do so anyway," Silvermist said. His words should have held disappointment, but his tone held happiness.

His master was glad.

"Dear god, you've come so far along in such little time. That too with such a weak cultivation base," Silvermist said. "Even Immortal Transcendent realm alchemists struggle hard to reach this level in decades and decades of their training."

Alex was taken aback. "You never expected me to make pills on all 10 cauldrons?" he asked.

"I didn't even expect you to make 5 if I'm to tell the truth. The fact that you've made 7 is a miracle in my eyes," Silvermist said.

Alex wasn't expecting this response. He had simply thought that his master would come into his room, tell him to continue, and leave.

"So, do I continue?" Alex asked.

"No, that wouldn't be right," Silvermist said. "You won't make any good progress now that you've done as much. For now, focus entirely on cultivation. I will bring along some materials for you to read and remember, but that's all you will be doing for now."

Nodding his head along, Alex accepted his master's words. He wasn't going to make any progress, and a higher cultivation base was always going to be of much help.

Alex finally left the alchemy room, after so many months, going to the room he had been given the first day he had come to this mansion. It had remained untouched entirely.

He sat down on the bed and began cultivating.

His cultivation went smoothly, disrupted only on a few occasions when Shi Quanli came to deliver either some talismans for him to read up on or to give him some high-quality pill for him to consume while cultivating.

The information he was given to read was mostly regarding Immortal ingredients. Silvermist did not rely on what he believed Alex knew and gave him everything he could find to help him learn.

Alex was rather happy with this. While he had learned a lot, he hadn't learned every ingredient out there. And he did not believe there would be anyone who would know more about alchemy ingredients than an Alchemy court.

Alchemy God's Knowledge held information about plants, so he desperately needed to know that he had all areas covered regarding beasts.

To Alex's surprise, there was even information for him to read regarding the plant ingredients. The descriptions were something he already knew about, but a long list of information on which ingredient was likely to be found in what region of the Medicine World was something he couldn't have known he needed.

It was likely to come up in the tournament somehow. Aside from that, Alex got nothing at all, so he could focus all of his time on cultivation alone. Since Alex focused entirely on his cultivation base and not on anything else, his cultivation speed was much faster than normal.

Adding onto it the fact that he relied entirely on 9-veined cultivation pills, reaching the next realm in his cultivation base was of no difficulty to him at all.

Just 3 years after he began cultivating seriously, Alex reached the next realm. In total, it had taken him just under 8 years since the last time he broke through.

Having entered the Immortal Ascendant 6th realm, Alex informed his master of his breakthrough.

Silvermist arrived as soon as he could, laughing out loud as he did. "Incredible. Absolutely incredible. And there is no destabilized aura around you either. You broke through properly."

"I did, master," Alex said. "Should I go back to making pills right away?"

"Making pills? No," Silvermist said. "There is something much more important for you to do now than make pills."