Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

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Alex waited until the sun came up high before deciding to head down the mountain. This time around, Momo didn't want to walk, so they flew down instead.

What had taken them half a day to get to the top now took no more than just an hour. That was also because they were slow on the descent, taking their time.

Momo enjoyed the feeling of watching the world get larger and larger as they descended, the fog at the bottom growing thicker and thicker. Then, once they entered the mists of the Mistspawn mountains, they finally landed on solid ground without any snow and began walking.

"We'll have to leave now," Alex said.

Rosemist appeared a little saddened by his words but she nodded nonetheless. "You'll come back, though, right?"

"Of course," Alex said. "I have no plan on leaving the city for a while, so I will come here every time I can." "Thank you," she said. "I'll see you later."

Alex waved goodbye and was about to leave when Senior Lin's voice spoke into his mind. "Do not speak of what happened here today with anyone else," he said. "If I learn that you have, I will deal with you all myself."

Alex could feel the strong intent that came with the message. He wasn't joking. Alex understood that he was bring protective of Rosemist and was doing it all for her. Alex nodded and bid farewell before flying away from the mist. Not a single one of the four of them would speak of this matter to anyone else.

An entire day had passed since they left the Whole Rose Garden and they were finally returning back to their place. On their way back, Pearl and Whisker finally began speaking the things that were on their mind.

"Brother, that woman…" Pearl said. "How could you keep your wits in front of her?"

"What do you mean?" Alex asked with a confused look.

"Didn't you feel anything… different about her?" Whisker asked.

"She was so stunning," Momo said. "It felt disrespectful to even talk in her presence."

Alex was taken aback by their words. "I felt none of that," he said. "Are you sure you felt all of this?"

Whisker nodded furiously. "I felt as though she could see through me so clearly. Like I was an open book for her to read."

Alex took a moment to think and nodded. "She did seem to know a lot of things that shouldn't be so easily known by others," he said. "Still, that doesn't mean that she knew everything about you. On the contrary, she didn't know about the origin of Pearl's bloodline. She thought he was born with his bloodline."

Pearl thought for a bit and only then caught on to the fact. He had been so on edge the whole time that he hadn't realized that.

"Still," Alex said. "Given how all three of you got similar feelings from her, it must have something to do with her being a Child of Heaven."

The three said nothing. They didn't know what to say even. Their experience was so very different from Alex's that they would rather keep quiet than speak out loud.

That made Alex even more curious as to who Rosemist was exactly.

Whoever she was, she was a treasure trove of knowledge, and Alex was glad to be friends with her. Rarely did Alex think about their friends in terms of the benefits he got from them, but this time, the benefits were too unreal for him to not think about it.

They returned to their place and Alex sent them all to their room to rest and cultivate for the time being. He needed some time for himself as well to think through many things.

He sat down to cultivate, and let his mind roam through the new knowledge he had received. His knowledge of the Primordials, his knowledge of the Heavenly beasts, and his knowledge of the Demonic plants.

'If the Demonic Plants are so great that their effect permeates through entire continents, I would've heard it by now if they were in any of the Immortal realms,' Alex thought.

The fact that he hadn't heard of it meant one of two things. Either they were in some other world, or they had been cut down.

Alex found the first possibility to be less possible than the latter one. After all, if the Demonic plants were around in some other world, the humans would've gotten it by now. The fact they hadn't meant that it did not exist.

'Or they can't get it,' Alex thought. 'Or they got it and have hidden it somehow.'

Alex wondered, if those plants were to be kept in a secret realm, would the effect permeate outside of the pocket space?

"No, I know too little about anything to make a proper decision right now," he said. "I will wait until later to find out more about this. I need to focus on what's important right now."

The Seven-Colored Angel Rose.

He had checked through the rose and knew it would grow each year, on the exact same day, perhaps even at the exact same time. "I need to keep track of the time," Alex thought. Due to the case of the roses using Dao of Time Awareness to follow the true flow of time, Alex needed to follow the true flow as well.

Normally, that would mean that he had to learn the Dao of Time Awareness, but that would be too difficult, not to mention a waste of time for someone who barely was getting the hang of Time auras at all. It would take at least a decade for him to learn this Dao even with outside help. Thankfully, he had outside help already to keep track of time.

The Voidsand Hourglass in his Soul Space could keep the correct time regardless of where it was. So, Alex just had to track time using the hourglass and wait until the day the roses bloomed.