Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2228  Faster Cultivation

Compared to the village, the density of Qi within the cities was far, far above what one could expect. It was over hundreds of times dense. While it did not mean one could cultivate hundreds of times faster here, it did increase the speed by quite a bit.

So, the moment Momo began cultivating, Alex could see the thick Qi in the air move toward her body. She sucked in those Qi like a man dying of thirst had come across the water for the first time in days.

Even Momo herself could feel how much she was absorbing. She sucked in the energy like a vortex with herself at the center of it all. The energy pulsed its way toward her and before Alex knew it, she had reached the point of breakthrough.

Once again, there was no bottleneck. Not that either he or Pearl expected her to have one. Past her breakthrough, her body tried to consolidate on its own with her cultivation. Where the consolidation stopped and the cultivation for the next realm began, not even Momo herself could tell.

Alex and Pearl waited for another few hours when the next cultivation breakthrough came.

Momo had finally completed breaking through all of the Skin-tempering realms and had entered the Muscle-tempering realm. Alex wondered if she was quicker than him somehow, and worried that she might end up doing some damage to her cultivation base. Then he remembered how he had broken through to Muscle Tempering just 2 nights and decided that he needn't worry.

He had done that in a lower realm where even Saint Qi was hard to find. There was nothing wrong with her breaking through like this in the Immortal realm. Not to mention, her body was clearly very talented as well. He still needed to take her blood when he could and use it to test her bloodline. He decided he could do it once she was done in the morning. Momo cultivated for some time more and only broke through to the Muscle-tempering 2nd realm when dawn began breaking. She consolidated her cultivation base a little and finally opened her eyes.

She took in a few deep breaths and smiled. "That… was so fast, master. This place is incredible."

"It is," Alex said. "And you are incredible for cultivating so quickly as well."

Momo nodded, feeling happy at being praised. She moved around, feeling the clear improvement in her body. She could feel her strength higher than what it was the past 2 days. "I feel doubly stronger than yesterday, even though I didn't break through as many times," she said.

"Cultivation bases get exponentially stronger. The amount of power you get per each realm you break through is significantly more than your past breakthroughs. It is no surprise that 3 breakthroughs can give you more strength than 8 that came before it."

Momo nodded for a bit. "I guess I can understand," she said softly.

"Alright, go and freshen up or whatever you need to do. I will go to the Alchemy shop to sell some pills and once I'm back, we'll go shopping for necessities."

"Necessities?" Momo asked.

"Yes, like your clothes, storage bags, and whatnot. There are many things you will need."

"Oh! I will do so, master."

Once Momo was gone, Alex left Pearl to look after her while he went to an Alchemy store that would be toward the center of the city. They were toward the edge of the city, in one of the poorer areas, so he had to go toward the center where there would be better shops.

He found one of the fancier shops after a while and entered. He was only trying to look around the shop when a man came up to him immediately and bowed.

"Participant of the Convergence, please follow me."

Alex was taken aback but followed the man. He walked through the sea of customers and made his way to the other side of the main hall where things were a little more quieter.

The man stopped and turned around, bowing a little as he did. "How may I help you?" he asked.

"I wish to sell a few pills," Alex said.

"Sell pill? We can do that. May I see the pills?" the man asked.

Alex brought out the 5 bottles and handed them over, each containing just a single pill.

"Hmm, these are quite good pills. I will have them tested immediately and get you your spirit stones. Or would you rather purchase something with that money instead?"

"I would appreciate just the spirit stones alone," Alex said. He intended to go to the valley anyway, so there was little need for him to purchase ingredients here.

The man called someone else and handed over the pills to be taken to be tested. While they waited, Alex asked him, "Were you perhaps told to treat participants in a different way?"

"Told? No. We decided to do so," the man said. "You knew how to recognize us then?" Alex asked. "I believe any alchemy store worth its reputation knows who the participants are by now. They want to help you all the best they can so you can succeed. Every decent alchemist and alchemy store in the entire realm should be looking to help find the best alchemist of our current generation."

Alex couldn't help but nod. "Could you perhaps tell me how many participants have been to this city, or to this store?" he asked. "I don't want exact numbers, just if there are many or few."

"I would have to say many in that case. I have seen at least a few hundred different ones such as you. Look, another one already entered while we were talking."

Alex looked toward the side and saw an older woman with a stronger Immortal cultivation base being taken to the side by another staff.

"I see what you mean. It appears I'm not the only one who had the idea to come here," he said.

"This close to Great Fog Valley. Almost everyone should be coming here. Most may have even already made their way there."

Alex nodded. He needed to leave for the valley as soon as he could. Otherwise, he might end up going there after everything else was already taken away.

"Hmm, oh! Do you perhaps have these ingredients with you?" Alex asked, showing a random list of the ingredients from the pill he had to make. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The man looked at the list and pointed out two he had. The Crimson Blades and the Cherry Blossom Apple seeds.

Alex asked for the price and as expected, they were all quite expensive. No doubt the ingredients of the best qualities, but what he needed were the worst qualities. He was in a bit of a dilemma on whether to buy it or not at that point.

The other man returned with the spirit stones and Alex found out he had earned a little over 3 thousand Immortal Spirit stones. Nearly 2800 spirit stones profit.

The ingredients cost him 400 Immortal spirit stones, so he decided to splurge a bit. He needed to get the ingredients just in case there were no other ones anywhere.

Once he got the ingredients, he left the store.