Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Not only was the hot spring extremely potent with whatever scent the flowers gave, but also the vapor that came off of the hot spring contained even more of the scent, which would then gather inside the dome that was just a few dozen meters above them, making the peak of the mountain even more potent overall.

"What\'s your name, young man?" one of the elders with Royal blue robes asked him.

"It\'s Yu Ming, senior," Alex said.

"Yu Ming… hmm, I don\'t think I\'ve ever heard of that name before," the elder said. "Where did you come from young man? And how exactly did you manage to enter a sect like the Frozen Heart sect?"

Alex was about to say something to answer without answering when Elder Xuan spoke on her own.

"Does my sect needs to tell brother Wu why it does what it does?" she asked.

"Of course not, sister Xuan," the old man said. "Forget I asked anything. I just hope you can come to increase your understanding of whatever it is that you are practicing. Having another talented individual like this little girl will help elevate us a lot."

"That\'s enough talk, brother Wu. My head is starting to hurt. The young man must be barely hanging on too. Let us start meditating," another man said.

"Yes, yes, of course," Wu Song said and spoke nothing else. Then, the 9 of them slowly stopped resisting the effect of the scent, and one by one they fell into a trance.

Alex too gave in to the scent\'s effects, but even then it took some time for him to fall into a trance. Even though he was willing, his body constantly cleansed the effects of the scent, making it hard to do anything.

With nothing else to do but wait, Alex started cultivating as he waited for his body to fall into the trance.

Pearl was told not to cultivate, so simply staying in the scent, it didn\'t take long for Pearl to fall into a trance as well, however, he still managed to hang out longer than the old men and women there.

It wasn\'t until noon that day that Alex finally felt the effects of the scent and he too fell into a trance.

The trance wasn\'t a simple trance either. Alex knew he was lucid, he could think everything, but he wasn\'t able to do anything else.

As if his outer body had been disconnected from him, only his mind seemed to be working. He could tell that if he forced it, he could break this trance and wake up, but since the trance was why he came here in the first place, Alex let it be and accepted the experience.

His mind was extra clear to think about anything he wanted. Every single memory was vivid.

He remembered when he learned about the Explosion Dao, the remembered what he had thought to come to that conclusion. He remembered the Heat Dao as well as the Dao of Heat Conduction and remembered how he had gotten to that point.

What thing was there for him to think about that he was getting good at?

Alex remembered that what helped Dao to become easier to understand was being close to the thing or having come in contact with its essence.

For example, it was easy for Alex to understand Dao related to Fire because he had a good Fire spiritual root and was used to making alchemy which required a lot of fire.

This meant that since he had such good Metal and Yang spiritual roots, he should be able to obtain their dao rather easily.

However, given how little time he spent understanding metal itself or even Yang itself, Alex couldn\'t find a start to understanding any Dao under it.

The next best thing after that was his Yin dao, but once again, that was in a similar situation. There was one aspect of Yin that he could understand, but for reasons he couldn\'t explain himself, he didn\'t want to understand it, as that would mean reliving the horrible moment.

As such, Alex\'s mind started to wander as he thought of the many things he had come to learn during his lifetime.

Slowly, he forgot he was even in a trance and started thinking of something that he had come to learn a lot about recently.

Alex failed to realize this, but over a week passed as he fell into this course of thought. There were many things he had to test about this topic, but for some reason, one by one, he started understanding what would happen if he did something.

Even without physically doing it, Alex had an instinct he had built up over the last 6 years that was starting to show fruit now.

All he had learned, all he had accumulated came to him in a wave of information, and as the understanding reached a crescendo, the worldly laws descended upon him from the sky, making it, even easier to continue the understanding.

Many people who were out of their trance could feel the laws descend, but many didn\'t think twice as Alex\'s wasn\'t the only law that descended.

Over a dozen different people were learning Dao this time around, so Alex\'s Dao was hidden amongst them.

The only ones who realized he was learning a Dao were the elders that were around him and could feel the disturbance not far away from them.

They were surprised that he was understanding Dao so easily, but they did nothing to disturb him.

However, what they did not realize was that within the worldly laws that had descended on Alex, there was another Dao that was being understood by the little cat that stayed on his person.

Pearl was fully in trance, understanding the Dao for something he was very much used to.

Pearl had some help in learning the Dao. It wasn\'t just him that understood the concept he was learning the Dao of, he was also remembering the information that was ingrained into his bloodline.

Nonetheless, Pearl was learning the Dao himself, which made it his own accomplishment.

Not long after, Pearl opened his eyes, fully understanding the Dao. He had started learning earlier than Alex, so he understood it faster than him.

He was a little confused by what he had learned, as Dao wasn\'t something that he had information on. However, he remembered what the old man that had taught him had told him.

He had said that he would someday learn about this, and when he did, he should ask Alex for his help in understanding what he had learned and to not use it recklessly as it could hurt him.

So, he waited for Alex to wake up so he could ask him. About half a day later, Alex opened his eyes as well.

It had taken him a while, but he had understood it. The understanding had come to him and the worldly laws that descended had left.

Alex didn\'t move and only kept to himself as he thought of what he had just learned.

Dao of Plant Growth.

To be more accurate, it was the understanding of how plants grew and how it could be helped to grow even better and in most cases, faster even. Having worked with plants for so long now, when it was time for him to learn a Dao, he naturally gravitated toward what he was very used to these days.

Alex wished it was the Dao of Techniques, as that would make everything so much easier, but without putting any work into it, there was no way he could learn that.

As he was thinking that, Pearl spoke to Alex.

"I learned something," he sent a mental message.

Alex had been invested in himself to even realize that Pearl had learned a Dao too.

"You learned a Dao? Of what?" he asked.

"Of Metal," Pearl said. "I know a lot about metal energy now."

"Oh, not bad," Alex said. He spread his sense around to see who was awake, but most people were in their trance.

"We\'ll do a test once we are out, okay?" Alex said and let Pearl return back to another trance in hope that he learned something.

Alex also at the same time remembered to reapply the medicinal paste to his eyes and then returned to falling into a trance. Since quite a bit of time was remaining, he hoped to learn something else as well.