Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2221  Momo's Cultivation Night

Alex taught Momo the basics of Alchemy. By the 2 hour session, the only thing she had firmly understood was that making pills required ingredients that had to be heated and then moved around in a certain way in order to release the energy.

When the energy was released, you could then manipulate the energy to place it back onto the powder that was formed at the base and that was the pill.

She had so many more questions like how was she going to control the fire's temperature, how she was going to control the ingredients inside the cauldron, how she could get anything from not burning inside, and so much more.

And yet, that was all she knew the first day.

"I will ease you into the lesson. Learn too much too quickly and you will be overwhelmed," Alex told her. "Learning Alchemy takes time, even for Immortals. You will need to learn patience."

Momo nodded. It was only the first day after all, so she would be patient. Still, she hoped he would actually teach her more than just what he had done today. She was sure she could understand if he went a little more in detail.

Once she was done, she left the room and went back to her own. It was after dark, so she needed to read her book a bit more so she could prepare for her cultivation.

Alex and Pearl entered her room a while later when she was ready.

She sat cross-legged on the bed, the two others sitting on a rug on the floor. "Are you going to watch me all night?" she asked.

"I'll need to make sure you don't make any mistakes," Alex told her. "Not that it will hurt you or anything, but if I give you advice while you cultivate, it will be for the best."

Momo thought for a bit and nodded. "I'll start then."

She closed her eyes, sitting with her legs folded over each other, and began breathing. Her breathing was a little haggard toward the start, but soon enough she got the hang of it, and it became stable.

Alex looked around, the minute colors he could see in this space slowly pulsating toward her. Every time be breathed in, it got closer to her. And from what he could see, the black-colored light was what moved the most, pulling others with it.

"She's absorbing Qi," Alex told Pearl through his spiritual sense.

"Is she? I can't tell just yet," Pearl said. "The Qi here is just way too thin."

Alex agreed. He had trouble noticing it with his spiritual sense alone since the room was filled with Qi of much higher quality as well. With so much True Qi around, sensing the moment of some Common Qi was quite difficult for someone who wasn't specifically looking for it. Even then, one could miss it. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Alex waited for Momo to make a mistake, but the girl simply didn't make a mistake at all. She breathed in and out for a long time with no problem at all.

Alex was quite surprised. 'She's talented,' he thought. Had he gotten lucky or was this just normal? He couldn't tell.

He waited for a little while longer and felt a slight disturbance in the air. Pearl noticed it too and couldn't tell what had happened. "What was that? Did she make a mistake?"

"No," Alex replied. "She broke through."

Pearl's eyes widened in surprise. "Already?"

Alex nodded. "She's talented," he said. He wondered how much. They waited for her to continue for some time more and before they knew it, they had ended up waiting all night long. In just that time, Momo had ended up breaking through 3 more times, none of which seemed to have caused her any trouble.

From the looks of it, it would take her a long time before she faced any bottleneck at all.

The morning sun brought with it Yang that cleared away the Yin in the room, making the Starry Sky Absorption technique function not as well anymore.

Momo slowly fazed out of her cultivation and opened her eyes.

She took a deep breath, one that was no longer in the rhythm of her cultivation technique. When she looked ahead she was slightly surprised at the two men she saw.

She wasn't surprised to see them but rather how well she could see them. She looked around, seeing the patterns on the rug, the threads on the sheets, the tiny squares on the thin curtains. She could see clearly the leaves on the trees in the distance and she could see the birds fly far away.

"Am I… a proper cultivator now?" she couldn't help but ask.

"You are a Skin-tempering 5th realm cultivator," Alex explained. "Congratulations."

"Woah! Already?" she asked.

Alex nodded. "You surprised me as well," he said. Had he known she was going to break through this quickly, he would have begun preparing those talismans much earlier.

"I… was I asleep?" she asked. "I didn't even realize how time passed so quickly. It was so… weird."

"It happens when you cultivate," Alex said. "You usually end up going into a minor trance where you can tell what is happening outside, but your body is working while resting."

"Even though you cultivate all day long, you still don't feel tired in the slightest," Alex said. "Still, it is better to let your body rest and mind not think about things. Once you get the food today, make sure to go to sleep. If you can't sleep, at least take a nap."

Momo nodded enthusiastically.

"And no cultivating," Alex said in a stern voice. "No cultivating whatsoever."

Momo nodded sincerely this time. She did not want her master's wrath.

Alex and Pearl left the room, going to their own.

"Are you not going to go gather ingredients again?" Pearl asked.

"I am," Alex said. "But I need to make pills from the ones I got yesterday. Then I will go again."

"Can I go too?" Pearl asked.

"But you can't recognize most of the ingredients," Alex said.

"Yeah, but I'm so… bored," he said. "I just want something to do."

Alex understood the sentiment Pearl had. He shared the same, but he couldn't just let him leave the place like that. "Momo needs a guardian. Once we are in the big city, you can find something to do for yourself," he said.

"Alright," Pearl said dejectedly. "I'll find something to do with Momo during the day."

"Yeah, look after her for me," Alex said. "Whisker would be the better choice since he could teach her more about Alchemy, but… Alas, he is stuck in there."

Pearl thought for a bit and asked, "This treasure only records what comes out, right??" he asked.

"Yes, I did," Alex said. "Why?"

"Could it recognize if only Qi were to come out from the Soul Space?" Pearl asked.

"I don't know," Alex said. He hadn't looked at the treasure all that much after understanding that he wouldn't be using it at all. "You should figure out if it can work like that," Pearl said. "Because if it can…"

Alex's eyes widened in shock when he heard Pearl's idea. "I completely didn't think of that at all," he said. "Thanks, Pearl."