Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

To use the Fain Immortal Peach Lily, one must keep it in their vicinity and cultivate it for a maximum of 20 days. For many, it would help elevate their cultivation base in just a week or so, but there were instances where it was known to take up to 20 days, depending on the person's Battle Power.

It took Alex nearly 26 days to break through using that flower.

The flower when left nearby during cultivation, assuming no other being cultivated in the vicinity, quickly gathered Qi from the surroundings and sent it directly to the cultivator, which helped improve all of their physical aspects, getting them ready for the next breakthrough.

What usually took Alex 10 years to improve, here he was doing it in 10 days. He could feel his body refusing the 'aid' by the end of it, and if he were to do it again, it likely wouldn't work.

It was said that the flower could only be used once every thousand years. Alex wasn't sure if this was because of that or not. Truth was, the flower also wouldn't work on him because he had now reached the Immortal Ascendant 9th realm.

There were no more breakthroughs to be made within this realm as the very next one would take him to the Immortal Origin realm.

The entire time Alex cultivated with it, while the majority of his attention was on the cultivation itself, a piece of it repeatedly tried to learn the contents of the energy that the flower had.

It was a difficult task, one that was doubly difficult due to the fact that there was little info about it as a pill ingredient. And since his mind only kept information on pill ingredients, he had to learn about this one in name only.

The more difficult aspect of this was due to the fact that there was a ton of Qi being pushed toward him by the flower, most of which didn't belong to it. It was something it had gathered from the surroundings and given to him. It did not belong to itself, so the energy that did belong to it was hard to pick through. And still, in just 15 days of cultivating with it, Alex managed to pinpoint the exact energy that belonged to the flower.

Since he now knew the energy within the flower, it stood to reason that he should be able to make a pill that acted as a replacement for it. The flower wasn't going to work for him again, but that wasn't why he wanted it.

There were others he could use it for.

Pearl was an obvious choice. His cultivation base had progressed to Immortal Ascendant 7th realm in the past many years as he focused purely on cultivation and battle training. Very soon, he would reach the next realm as well, and then he could use this pill.

There was also Whisker, who was not coming out of his Soul Space regularly to learn more Dao. He did not expect to learn that many, only the ones for Fire dao. Since he was being trained by Alex as a cultivator, he needed Fire Dao.

He had learned a majority of the Fire Dao, but there were still a few remaining. And until he learned them all, he had decided he wouldn't be breaking through to Immortality just yet.

Finally, there was the phoenix, Scarlet. As she was stuck in the spirit world, she would remain in the Immortal Ascendant 1st realm until she could go back up to the Land of the Blessed Sun. Once Alex met his family and then went to find her, she should need this flower's power as well, so the pill was going to come in handy then as well.

While Alex did make such grandiose plans on how he was going to use the pill, he wasn't certain if the pill would work or not just yet. To begin with, the energy within the flower was so strong that it was nearly Divine grade. To control such strong energy, he needed more practice and Intent. He couldn't just whip up the pills and be done with it.

Also, he wasn't entirely sure that a pill could work. If heaven was somehow involved in this, then maybe it needed to be a flower that would work. Maybe a pill wouldn't be useful.

Alex would have to wait and see that as well.

"For now, I should just think about the ingredients that should make up this flower," he thought and closed his eyes.

The next cultivation realm for Alex was the Immortal Origin realm and that was going to take a while. He had no plans on breaking through to it before the tournament's start, so instead he began training focused entirely on the upcoming tournament.

Silvermist began leaving the sect less and less as time went on and by now, he never went anywhere. He had initially planned for Alex to be able to roam this court on his own now, but as things got closer to the tournament, it became more and more apparent just how much danger there could be for someone who was known to be as talented as Alex.

So he was forced to remain within the mansion even more.

Alex didn't mind. With how much training he was supposed to do, he didn't have the time to roam the court either.

Silvermist began setting up minor tests of various sorts to test Alex's ability to make pills under different scenarios and requirements. Different competitions needed him to act in different ways, so he needed to work in the way it was needed of him.

He could not focus entirely on how good his pills were when the contest was for speed. He could not focus on speed when the contests were for quality. Spending his time preparing ingredients before making pills was wasted if he was going to make many pills at once. Such competitions helped him focus on what was the most important part of the issue and focus on it. It helped him get used to the idea of the competition and prepare splendidly.

The remaining years passed in a flash and before one knew it the year of the tournament had arrived. It was time for them to leave for God's Domain, where the tournament was being held.

Alex, Silvermist, Grimsight, and Pearl stood before the massive main building of the court, surrounded by many who watched them in awe and gossip. Many had already known that Silvermist had a disciple prepared for the tournament, but only a few knew who it was.

There were people who had initially guessed it to be Pearl, but based on how much time Pearl spent fighting rather than training, they quickly gave up on the idea.

Only now did they see Alex and it made them feel that he was so very… ordinary. His cultivation base wasn't as high and he appeared to be a regular cultivator.

They wondered if he was good enough. But since Silvermist had chosen him, they had to believe in him.

"Take care of the court while we are away, Nurei," Silvermist told the woman. "We shall return victorious."