Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Alex only realized that Pearl had been taken back to the Western Continent the day they had returned by Bai Jingshen when he searched for him so he could take him there.

Alex left on his own, even though his subordinates didn't want him to, and quickly flew toward the Southern Forest where the White Tiger's palace was.

He arrived at the formation and was quickly led to Bai Jingshen. After telling Bai Jingshen the reason he was there, he was quickly led to Luo Beihan, Bai Jingshen's 6th wife. That had come as a surprise to Alex when Bai Jingshen told him that.

Wen Meirin, Luo Beihan, and Pearl's great-grandmother, Ren Xiao were initially just concubines. However, after Pearl's ascension to a White Tiger, Ren Xiao needed to be given a better status in the family. Bai Jingshen knew he needed to make her a wife as well, but didn't want to let the other two down, so instead he made everyone his wife.

Now, he had 7 wives and no concubines.

"Young Alchemist, I have been waiting for your arrival," Luo Beihan spoke when Alex arrived in the room she was in. Except, instead of being in her beastly form, she had turned to her human form.

She was a bronze-skinned woman with orange robes and long black hair. She wore a few jewels around her body, but not too much.

"Sit," she said, letting Alex sit next to her.

Alex nodded and sat down opposite her, ready to ask her for the pill recipes. However, before he could ask her anything, the woman spoke up first.

"Tell me, have you learned anything new yet? I'm excited to learn if you've made any improvements to your alchemy that I can learn from," she said.

Alex grimaced a little and shook his head. "Unfortunately not, senior. I might have reached the highest level of alchemy I can reach in this world that I'm capable of with my cultivation realm. Anything more will require me to break through and move to other words."

"Nothing?" Beihan asked unbelievingly before clicking her tongue. "And here I was so excited too."

Alex gave a rueful smile. "I can give you a technique to help you make pill clouds every single time," he said.

The woman's eyes sharpened suddenly. "What did you say?" she asked.

Alex repeated what he said and watched the woman's eyes widen in shock. He could see the beast-like hunger in her eyes to get what he was proposing to give her.

"Are you certain?" she asked.

Alex nodded and provided her with a talisman. "I've given these to so many others. I think you deserve it too. You've helped me so much that I can't think of any other way to repay you. I just hope you won't share it with others very easily."

The woman took hold of the talisman and slowly read it while mouthing the words 'Vortex of Perfection'.

"This is a pill-forming technique?" she asked with a somewhat confused look. "Is it different from the other one you gave me? The Profound Revolution technique."

"It's definitely different," Alex said. "As you can probably see, it is in a way automatic when it comes to forming pills."

"I see," she said and continued reading it.

Alex waited for her to read it all. When it seemed as though she was done with it, he asked her a question that had been bothering him slightly.

"You don't have meridians in the same shape and path as humans do, right?" Alex asked.

"Not when I'm a beast, no," the woman said. "But our human form changes even our meridians to be closer to humans. While it won't be the exact same, it is close enough that we can learn human techniques to use it. The effectiveness of the techique is usually low when copied from humans though."

"Oh," Alex said. "Won't that cause this to be problematic?"

The Vortex of Perfection was the pill formation technique that Alex had created by altering the pill-splitting Qi. Instead of separating a pile into 2 perfect pills, he made the technique to create just one perfect pill from the whole pile.

Since it was the Alchemy God's technique, it was an incredibly frustrating technique to learn that required the person to have the Qi pass through unbelievably complicated pathways just to be used.

That was partially the reason why every alchemist he gave the technique to still found it hard to learn as keeping track of the most minute passageways in one's meridians was strenuous. One would even call it unnecessarily complicated if the end result wasn't so great.

Maybe that was the reason why it was so great at all.

The woman understood what Alex meant by it being problematic and smiled. "Don't worry, I can learn this," she said. To an Immortal, even a few centuries was nothing compared to how long they could live.

"I'm not really concerned about whether you can learn it or not, senior," Alex said. "I'm more so concerned about the effectiveness. If the effectiveness of the technique drops then it might not work as perfectly as its name suggests."

"Oh, that was what you meant," the woman said and put the talisman away. "You don't have to worry about that either. I can have it be changed to fit my meridians as a human."

Alex got curious when he heard that. "How?" he couldn't help but ask.

"Didn't my husband tell you?" she asked. "I remember him mentioning that he told it to you before. That was how you learned it in the first place, he says."

Alex frowned a little. "I'm not sure what you are talking about, senior."

"Dao of Techniques," the woman said. "You've learned it right?"

"Yes," Alex said, and the memories flooded back. "Oh! Right…"

The entire reason Alex had learned Dao of Techniques in the first place was because Bai Jingshen had told Alex about it when he was training him in the Luminance empire as Shen Jing.

Alex only now remembered Bai Jingshen mentioned that he had learned the technique too.

"Oh, so you plan on having him change it for you," he asked. "But it will still take him a long time."

"You don't worry about that," she said. "You worry about your cousin. That young girl needs to be treated quickly."

She brought out two talismans and a bunch of wooden boxes.

"This is the recipe for the pill that can heal your sister's poison. I had a hard time tracking it down, and an even harder time tracking down these ingredients."

Alex took the recipe and ingredients.

"And this one is for opening up her dantian," she said. "I don't know if you have one or not, but I prepared it just in case. That young girl that came with your cousin told me that you would be needing one."

"Lady Luoyang did?" Alex asked. He hadn't seen her after returning. "I have a recipe for that, but this is highly appreciated too. Thank you."

"No need to thank me for this," she said. "After what you've given me today, I wouldn't mind if you told me to give you everything I owned."