Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2284  The Decade

Rosemist wasn't sad to learn that Alex would have to leave. She had always known the day would come.

"Did you think I would be sad?" she asked. "You didn't have to. At the end of the day, I am not a human. I do not have experiences like humans do. We could meet every millennia and I wouldn't think otherwise of it. A year or two is nothing by comparison."

And yet, Alex thought, she had wanted friends like a regular human would. She got lonely too.

"I'll try to return when I can. I'll mostly be searching this continent. I probably won't leave for the other ones right away."

Rosemist nodded. "Take your time. Good luck with it all." Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Alex wasn't immediately going to leave the place. He still wanted to learn about the Daos around the Voidgate. At the same time, he had other preparations to make.

It was nearly 2 and a half years since the tournament's start when Alex finally let the city go to the other sections of the continent.

Of the 5 sections, he planned on visiting the northern section that was governed by the Enchanting Lotus guild. Then he would go south and west, on the other side of the Mistspawn mountain to visit the rest of the land controlled by the Royal Sprout guild.

Alex didn't need to visit God's Origin, so he didn't plan to. From there, he planned on moving further down south to where the land was controlled by the Blue Forest guild.

There was a vast forest in that location, most of which was free for anyone to enter, so Alex planned on going there to find what he wanted to.

After that, he would go to the final section of the Pillheaven continent controlled by the Night Lily Guild.

That was Alex's plan for the next 7 and a half years. If he really tried to find his ingredients, he was certain he could go through the entire continent in just 3 years max. But he couldn't just do that. He needed to train his disciple and train himself.

As a result, it was going to take quite a bit of time. He decided he would find what he could during this turn and then go to the next continents some other time.

So Alex first went everywhere close he could to find the 3 ingredients he was missing, and then went to the places controlled by the Enchanting Lotus Guild. There, he visited forests, valleys, caverns, caves, spatial pockets, and whatnot. The only places he wasn't allowed to visit were places that were private gardens, so other than that, he visited every other place he could.

He also went to many of the stores he came across, trying to find the flowers he could, but he soon noticed an issue that he had always believed he would come across.

The White Ascension Flower was a rare flower, but it was something he could surely find with enough time. The tournament holders wouldn't just give him such a requirement without it having the possibility of being completed.

However, things such as the Jade Immortal Locust Shell were rarely used in Alchemy, and the Emerald Raven's Tail feathers simply never were.

Wherever he went and asked if the store had the tail feathers, he would get weird looks. That was probably the same look he would've gotten if he asked for Gale Immortal Rat's eyes. Thankfully, he had already gotten those eyes from somewhere else, so it was at least done.

'I can't expect the stores to have the beast parts,' Alex thought. 'I will need to find it on my own. I need to ask it from actual beasts.'

Bugs were a weird category of beasts in that they didn't gain intelligence the same way regular beasts did. Perhaps it was because of their size, or some other reason, but even if the bugs did reach the Immortal realm, they would still be individually weaker than a regular Immortal cultivator.

Alone, they would die easily. Which was probably why they liked to stay in groups. And perhaps because of their tendency to stay in groups, they never improved their intelligence past that of a regular beast.

So, even when they were strong, they were still just little bugs. If Alex wanted to find them, he would have to go where bugs usually were located.

Either the forest or more likely, a beast taming school where bug training was part of it.

He visited a few sects in the Pill Heaven Continent, but there were none here. However, he did know of one place in the Trueflame Continent that would no doubt have it.

If he went there, he would find those bugs easily. As for the tail feathers, he would just have to get lucky and find a few Emerald Raven somewhere.

Alex searched the continent for those 7 years, trying his best to go everywhere to find anything he could, but he didn't find anything.

That was not to say nothing came out of the 7 years either.

Momo had improved her cultivation significantly during this time, entering the True King realm right at the end of it. If she cultivated for 10 more years, she would no doubt reach the Saint realm as well.

Her physique improved significantly during this time as well, and that was due to something other than just poisons Alex bought from the stores.

Because Momo would need a constant source of the poison that improved little by little, he decided to get her something that would improve little by little itself to make poison.

He got her a Triple-Tongue Dragon Lizard. It was a poisonous lizard that contained in part the blood of an Azure Dragon, making it better than most other beasts.

Alex encountered the beast during an auction where he got the idea to have it accompany Momo. Once he purchased it, he gifted it to Momo, who quickly got attached to it and took a few weeks to get bonded to it.

Once it was bonded, Momo could improve herself along with it.