Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2045

The woman fell back in shock, quickly putting aside her sword and raising her hands. "I give up. I d-don't want to fight anymore," she shouted. That was the last Alex had to deal with her.

Alex turned around, intending to go help Pearl. But to his pleasant surprise, Pearl was holding his own.

The old man he fought had a decent concealment technique to hide his cultivation base, but that meant little when he wasn't strong at all. At around Immortal Ascendant 5th realm cultivation base, Pearl was plenty enough to defeat him.

Pearl didn't immediately win, choosing to fight with his Spear and train while he was at it. He had to start developing his Spear Intent as soon as he could, so he had to force himself to fight with just the spear for as long as he could.

It was a much better idea to start such a thing with a Spear that you knew you would use for a long time, but this was better than nothing. He had also taken the broken pieces of his father's spear, which contained enough Spear aura for him to learn from.

Alex watched Pearl's fight while Whisker contacted him again.

"I'm at the center, brother. Look," he said through their bond, sharing with Alex the vision he saw.

Alex saw absolutely nothing at the center of the Breathing Garden at all. No monument, no statue. There was not even a single plant at the center. Just a large meadow with people sitting around, facing away from the center.

They were all seemingly cultivating with the winds moving out and in. Alex used Whisker's whiskers to sense the situation at the center, quickly getting in a bunch of information that only Whisker could give him. For one, he managed to sense a deep Wood aura inside of the place, which increased when the winds moved out and decreased when they moved back in.

Alex could also sense that the Wood aura was not natural at all, and instead something created from a formation or something similar. He was very confused at the moment as the only thing that the formation and winds did was give an illusion that the garden was moving.

Was that really all? That couldn't be all. There had to be a reason why the Reverend Sixghost had gone through so much to create such a place. Was Wood aura important for whatever he had left behind?

If the Sabers were not the treasure and instead the replication technique that Godslayer had told him about, could it be used only using Wood aura?

'Okay, but then why is this place full of a bloody scent?' Alex thought, looking at the soil he was standing upon. The red ground gave a smell of blood. It wasn't thick enough to make one believe that fresh blood had spilled here, but just enough to make one think of blood when they smelled it.

There had to be a reason for this too right? Blood and Wind, neither made any sense to him at all.

"There's nothing else important here, brother," Whisker said. "At least, nothing that I could find."

"You've done well," Alex said. "For now, go over to the other garden and see if it's the same. Focus on what's different. But be careful there. There's a woman there that's a little too strong."

"Got it," Whisker replied and left the garden.

Pearl's fight ended around the same time with the old man giving up in the end.

"Thank you for the fight," Pearl said. "Challenge me anytime you want to fight again in the future."

The old man grimaced and turned away, not even giving Pearl a single glance after his loss.

Pearl shrugged and returned to Alex.

"Are you done with your fight, brother?" Pearl asked.

"Yes," Alex said and looked around. No one appeared as though they wanted to fight either of them. Not because they knew they were strong, but because not many had paid attention to their fights.

Most of them were simply focused on their own fights and there were too many battles happening to pay attention to.

Alex and Pearl realized this was the perfect time to start their investigation. They walked over to the closest gravestone and began looking through them.

There were 3 things written in every gravestone. The name of the person who died, how old they had been when they died, and their status within the sect.

Huang Xumin, a low-ranked Elder, had been a little over 50 millennia when they had died.

Wan Fanzhou, a low-ranked Elder, had been 60 millennia when they died.

Another low-ranked elder, and then another. As Alex and Pearl went through the gravestones, they realized that most of them were just low-ranked elders. None of them were of much importance in the sect but had enough status to have a grave here.

It was unclear to both Alex and Pearl if there were actual buried bodies underneath the ground. They knew better than to check.

The first high-ranked Elder they found dead was 3 layers closer to the center than the other gravestones. Then, every single one they had found had been a high-ranked elder.

That was what told Alex and Pearl that the elders were being buried in a circle, with the status lowering the further they moved out. That meant, the closer they got, the higher the status would be.

If they were not wrong, the grave at the center of the graveyard, which was larger than the other graves was bound to belong to the founder of the Twin Saber sect himself, Reverend Sixghost.

Alex was challenged once while he went through the graves, which ended rather quickly as he needed to go back to find more texts through the graves.

He hadn't found anything until now, but the status of the dead elders had increased to numbered elders, so he was making steady progress.

Alex was challenged two more times in between those graves and getting to the sect leaders who had died. There had until now only been 2 sect leader who had died, and interestingly, the reason for their deaths had been noted down as well.

One of the sect leaders who had died had been the victim of his Immortal tribulation lightning, which he hadn't managed to defeat. At that point in time, he had been over a hundred thousand years old, so the death was very surprising for Alex.

'100 thousand years, that's… just 10 lightning tribulations,' Alex thought. 'Even at most, the lightning tribulation couldn't have been stronger than Immortal Origin 2nd realm considering that one of such things only comes by once every 10 thousand years.'

How the hell had this man died then?

He remembered Sunheart's cryptic words about Divinities and Immortal tribulations. She hadn't told him what changes when one enters the Divine realm, but she had implied something.

Alex couldn't help but want to know what that was.

He looked to the other sect leader's grave. This man had only been 60 thousand years old when he died, and apparently, the cause of his death was simply 'died during an assault against evil'. Nothing more was said than this.

What evil? There was no explanation here.