Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2248  Lives Left Behind

Alex was a little confused by Jai Heiyun's statement. "What do you mean by that? Did Immortals come after I was gone?"

"Yes," Jai Heiyun said. "It should have been some 20 years after you were gone. They came so suddenly and landed all around the world."

"And?" Alex asked, very much curious now. "Who came? What did they do?"

"They appeared out of nowhere and claimed that we had their treasures. They announced to the entire world and told them to hand it over," she said. "But they couldn't do anything besides that since her Majesty went to talk to them."

"Oh? What happened then?"

"At the moment, we only heard some of what she said," Jai Heiyun said. "I did not understand the meaning of her words, but I remember the words exactly."

"This world is protected by the treaty between the Four Heavenly Beasts, the Humans, and the Demons. Return where you came from or you shall face the consequences of your action."

Alex was quite surprised to hear all of those words, and unlike others, he understood the meaning. The treaty between the beasts, humans, and demons had been regarding the fact that the demon's spirit realms that had been taken over by the humans were looked after by the beasts so that the demons weren't further exploited.

It also stopped any other humans from coming and exploiting the land itself for its resources or for demons to come and start a revolution against the humans there.

However, with how much time had passed, everyone already had mixed blood and no longer had as much potential.

"What then?" Alex asked. "Did they leave?"

"No, they stayed behind, but the White Tiger arrived a few minutes later and said some things to the Immortals and took them away," Jai Heiyun said.

"What did he say?" Alex asked.

"That conversation was kept from us," Jai Heiyun said. "So we couldn't hear what exactly was exchanged between them. But we did hear later on that the White Tiger had people give up treasures in the Western Continent. I am not sure what that was all about."

Alex quickly understood the gist of the situation, understanding far more than anyone else could hear.

'Those people came to get treasures that came down in the meteor shower,' Alex thought. 'And Bai Jingshen gave them away? He couldn't have given it to them to just anyone, so they must've been people he trusted.'

Thinking along the line, he wondered how those people even knew to come here. In the first place, everyone should have already been scared about the fact that Godkiller was there.

'Unless they found out he wasn't,' Alex thought. 'Unless they met senior Yang and…'

Alex felt a wave of fear come across him at that exact moment as he thought of the worst-case scenario. His family was found and captured by some people who had then extorted information out of senior Yang to learn that Godkiller was no longer present.

If that was the case then— 'No,' Alex thought. 'Senior Yang wouldn't give away that information so easily. Even if he did give it away, Brother Shen wouldn't let the people take the treasures back so easily.'

'That can only mean that both of them were confident enough to trust that they were the right people to give that information to. Which must mean… they've reached the Sky God's realm.'

Alex felt relieved thinking of that himself. It was still a far cry from being legitimate evidence, but it was the best one he had gotten for now. His family had reached the Sky God's realm, and the people that came were individuals from the Sky God's realm, which was why Bai Jingshen had been so helpful.

"Are you okay?" Jai Heiyun asked with a concerned look.

"Yes, I'm okay," Alex quickly said. "Anything else about those Immortals? Did they do something or did they just leave?"

"I think they just left," Jai Heiyun said. "There wasn't much for them to do after getting what they had come for. I don't think we were ever even told what it was that they took."

"I see. Enough about that, tell me more about the rest. How is the Southern continent doing? How is the Central continent doing? Or the rest of them as well," Alex asked.

"They're doing alright. Everything was about the same as when you left. People are still traveling all around the world thanks to the fixed teleportation formations and enough people have made their way all around. There is a new wave of talented cultivators everywhere thanks to people from the Central continent having quite a bit of talent, so sects and families are constantly on the lookout for them." n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"The Central continent… I would say has changed for the worse. They have lost what made them unique and have begun integrating outside influence in there, so it should all look more or less the same."

Alex nodded. "Have you any news about my master, my senior sister, Wang Lin, and the rest," he asked.

"Her Majesty takes care of your master and sisters, so they are doing fine. I don't get to meet them much, if at all. But I do get to meet with the others. Your Martial Uncle, was it? He had decided to retire from making pills for the Royal guild and wanted to go teach some disciples instead."

"Brother Wang Lin and sister Fan Ruogang left the capital to raise their son elsewhere in the continent. And… oh right, that young girl, Kong Yumin has become an excellent alchemist by now thanks to your mother's lessons. Her cultivation speed is a little slow as she doesn't have the talent for it, but her understanding of alchemy is excellent."

"Wow!" Alex said, feeling surreal about the entire thing. Kong Yuhan was one of the first people Alex became friends with when he joined the Hong Wu sect. Now, their daughter had become a prominent alchemist in the Southern Continent.

Even Wang Lin and Fan Ruogang had a son by now, so they were doing fine as well, it seemed.

He wished he learned more about his master and senior sister too, as well as young Emily who they had left behind to train for themselves, but that would have to wait until Alex found a way to either go back to the lower realm or meet Scarlet once again.

"How is the emperor of the Eastern Continent doing?" Alex asked next. "I'm not too sure. He wasn't a topic of much conversation in the time I was there, so I cannot say for certain," Jai Heiyun said.

"That means the young man is doing quite well," Alex said with a smile. "I suppose," Jai Heiyun said.

They talked for a while beyond that, with Jai Heiyun asking Alex how he had passed his years. Alex told her what he could, leaving anything else that she didn't need to.

Before he knew it, he needed to go back to the courtyard.

"Oh right, my courtyard has quite a bit of space, so you can come stay there if you want to," Alex said. "Chances are, we're going to leave early tomorrow morning anyway."