Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2241  Nearly 3

He hadn\'t seen her in the tournament, but that was understandable given the sheer number of people that were there. It was easy to miss people. That made him wonder if there were others that he had met.

The woman began tearing up at the sight of him, making him feel a little awkward.

"Did you think I was dead?" Alex asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Jai Heiyun said, wiping her tears. "They said you died when you tried to break through to the Immortal realms."

"Oh!" Alex had done that so people in his lower realm would believe he was dead, and it seemed it had worked fantastically. Still, he had assumed that Jai Heiyun of all wouldn\'t have been told the truth.

She was the lead alchemist in the Southern continent, probably the second best right behind him. She had all of his teachings from back then, including every pill recipe and pill-forming technique he had come across.

"I\'m so happy to see that you are alive, Your Majesty," she said.

Alex smiled. "You… don\'t have to call me that anymore, you know. I\'m not your king anymore."

"What?" Jai Heiyun said, confused. "But then… what else do I call you, Your Majesty?"

"Just call me whatever you want," Alex said.

"Umm… Brother Alex?" she asked.

Alex paused for a moment, having heard his own name for the first time in nearly a century. "Actually, not that." There was a reason why he had killed himself. He couldn\'t go around letting people know he was alive just yet.

"Call me Dawnblade," Alex said. "That is the Daoist name I go by now," he said.

"Dawnblade?" Jai Heiyun\'s eyes widened sharply at the name and she gasped, hiding her open mouth. "You\'re senior Silvermist\'s disciple!"

Alex was taken aback by the sudden statement. "How do you know that?" she asked.

"Master told me about you," Jai Heiyun said. "Of course! She said you were from the same world as me. I should have realized you were who she was talking about."

"Your… master?"

Jai Heiyun nodded. "You should know her too. She says you stayed at her place for 2 years before coming to this world," she said.

A name popped up in Alex\'s head. "Firestar? You are a disciple under Senior Firestar?" "Mhm," Jai Heiyun nodded.

"Since when? How?" Alex asked, confused.

"Umm, since about 20 years ago when I arrived at the Eclipsing Heaven realm," Jai Heiyun said.

"Wow!" Alex said. "You must\'ve been lucky to become her disciple so quickly."

"Umm, it\'s all thanks to you, y— brother Dawnblade."

Alex chuckled a little. "Were you leaving the valley?" he asked.

Jai Heiyun nodded. "I\'m sorry, I can\'t stick around for too long. My disciple is alone, so he needs me right now."

Alex nodded. "Where are you staying? I will come to meet you later once I\'m done here," he said.

Jai Heiyun gave him the location of where she was staying and Alex quickly realized it was one of the less desirable places in the city. It was at least a bit better than where he was staying before though.

"I\'m so sorry, but I must leave right away. I will see you later, brother Dawnblade," she said and bowed toward him multiple times before rushing away.

Alex watched the woman leave, feeling her cultivation base as she did. \'Just 20 years and she\'s already broken through 4 times?\' he thought. \'Senior Firestar must have used a lot of resources to get her to this level.\'

Once Jai Heiyun was gone, Alex began calculating just when she had left. If she had arrived here just 20 years ago, then she would have remained in the lower realm for nearly 70 more years than he had.

He wondered if there had been any changes there.

\'I will find out soon enough,\' he thought. He walked into the forest next, focusing only on finding the ingredients next as that was all he was here to do.

There were significantly more people here this time around. It was as if all the people who hadn\'t found anything in the other places had finally made their way here. As a result, there were much less good ingredients to be found anymore. Alex hurried his way deeper into the valley, to the other side where there should be fewer people and thus more ingredients to find.

There were more ingredients there for sure, but only so much more than in the other places. People had come here and taken what they could find too. Not to say of the others that had come through here long before the tournament started to make this place scarce of any good ingredients.

Alex continued searching for half a day, gathering what few ingredients he could find. He already had good ingredients to make pills for money later on, so he was simply gathering them on instinct.

After an entire day of searching, he finally found something he was looking for. Another one of the Golden Mind Chrysanthemum. The four-petaled golden flower bloomed in a hidden crevice that wasn\'t easy to spot while just looking for it.

Alex had only come to notice it on accident too. He smiled and quickly plucked it out. He looked at it for a moment before placing it together with the other flower he had gotten before.

Now that he had 2 of those, he needed 2 more petals to have enough for the competition. That way, he would be done with 3 of the 14 ingredients.

\'It does seem this place is a spawning ground for these flowers,\' Alex thought. \'There should be more. I need to make sure I don\'t miss anything.\'

Alex went through the forest for a while longer, searching for the flower as well as anything else he could find. Along the way, he gathered the other ingredients, but he didn\'t find anything else he was looking for.

That was until half a day later, he found the final flower he needed.

"This really is a spawning ground of theirs," he thought as he walked toward the flower. As he got closer, he sensed some disturbances in the fog.

\'A beast?\' Alex thought, frowning. His eyes saw nothing due to the sheer fog that was filled with all sorts of aura, but his senses did sense a person hidden in the fog, with almost everything but his physical self concealed.

It was a surprise that Alex even noticed the slight disturbance at all.

He quickly rushed toward the flower before the man could and plucked it out.

"Stop!" the man\'s voice came right then. "Leave behind the flower."

Alex slowly stood up with the flower in his hand. "Why should I?" he asked the man.

"I found the flower," the man said. "I\'m pretty sure if you found the flower first, it would be in your hands, not mine," Alex said. "You should search elsewhere."

Alex was about to put the flower into his Storage bag when he sensed an attack incoming and immediately flew backward to dodge. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He looked toward the man next, angry. "What is the meaning of this?"