Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2065

The Compliment pathway of the four pathways escaping a Spiritual Root was the first one that Alex decided to test. Given that he already believed this to be the correct pathway, it made sense to start with this one.

He brought out Midnight and held it in front of him. As the technique was a replicating one, he needed something to replicate.

There were two possible routes to completion for this pathway, each separating around the heart, and leading toward the brain. Alex quickly focused on the Intent of the technique and began drawing out the Qi from his Dantian.

The Qi flowed through his body, slowly moving up through pathways that Alex hadn't used before. He made sure not to make any mistake and brought it up.

All the way up, Alex employed his Dao of Techniques too, to see if there was something he could learn from what he was doing. As he pulled the Qi higher and higher, something odd happened.

It was only a feeling, but the Dao of Technique let him know before he even completed that whatever he was doing wasn't going to work. Alex stuck through to the end, and as expected, it did not work.

Alex stopped and frowned a little. The problem here wasn't that it didn't work, but he didn't get the feeling that he had even come close to being right.

Was he that wrong?

Alex took the second of the two paths and when he completed it, he ended up with the same feeling. The pathway he was using was far removed from whatever he intended to do. It was so very weird.

'So, it's not a Complimenting technique?' he thought. That was the only conclusion he got from this experiment. Whatever the technique was, should it follow this path, it was not a replicating technique.

So, he either had the wrong pathway or the wrong technique.

Given how he was assuming the technique to be correct for this experiment, he had to continue.

The next two of the remaining 3 pathways were the Create pathways. If the technique wasn't to pour Qi into a weapon and copy it, then it had to be creating a direct replica instead.

That made some sense to Alex, so he began.

Halfway through, he got the same feeling. This was wrong. Something was very wrong. He stuck through to the end still and came up with nothing as a result.

At this point, instead of continuing the test, Alex paused. He hadn't only realized that he was wrong with the first three, but he also realized something else that he hadn't been paying attention this entire time.

'Is this really a replication technique?' he thought as it all seemed wrong.

He had been sticking to this experiment because that was the assumption, and it was a good assumption given that it came from a somewhat reliable source. Godslayer had been many things, but a liar was not one of them. He could've been mistaken of course, but he had heard from other sources about Reverend Sixghost's ability to replicate his weapons.

That was how he got his name after all.

And that made absolutely no goddamn sense in this context as the technique he was using ended at the brain. It went from his dantian, throughout the body, ending at the brain.

How the hell was he supposed to use a technique to replicate a weapon, if he was going to send the Qi to the mind? Until now, he had only focused on finding the pathway and now that he finally gave it some thought, it made no sense.

'It can't be the replication technique,' Alex thought. That discouraged him from training the testing the next two pathways.

However, he couldn't let that stop him. Discouraged or not, demotivated or not, he had come this far along, so he needed to continue.

Alex used the other Create pathway, pulling his Qi throughout his body. He also used the Intent of the replication technique, just because it made sense to use it. At the very least, he needed something consistent throughout the tests to make sure he wasn't missing out.

Alex moved on to the final pathway to be done with the tests. This one was the weirdest one as he couldn't understand why it would be this pathway, but it was.

The last pathway was a Cultivation pathway. Unless the replication technique was a cultivation technique, this wouldn't work. Alex used the technique with the Intent to use a replication technique and it didn't work.

However, unlike the other times, something different did happen. He didn't get a feeling of wrongness from this one like he had from the other one.

'That's… weird,' he thought, using it again. He got the same feeling again as if there was an itch somewhere within the muscles and no matter how much you scratched the skin over it, you never got to the actual itch itself.

This got Alex to gnash his teeth a little in anger. 'What am I doing wrong?' he thought. 'A different pathway maybe?'

That was wrong. A replication technique wouldn't be a cultivation technique. Changing the pathway here wouldn't work.

'So, a different technique,' he thought. He needed a different intent. 'Am I trying to get a cultivation technique?'

Alex didn't like that. His current cultivation technique was more than good enough. In fact, it was fantastic, and just the right technique for him.

'Cultivation technique doesn't exactly mean it's for cultivation alone though,' Alex thought, changing his perspective. He had 5 cultivation techniques at the moment that he used whenever he had the chance.

One to cultivate his Qi, one to cultivate his physique, one to cultivate his eyes, one to cultivate his blood, and finally one to cultivate his spiritual sense.

If there was one more, what could he cultivate?

Alex paused his experiments and thought through it all for a few minutes.

The obvious answer here was the 7 organs. The meridians in the technique didn't even reach his limbs or most of the other organs, so it was somewhat understandable if it cultivated those organs, making them stronger.

But that would be wrong, wouldn't it? He was certain that the organs were just locations the meridians passed through and not the actual things that were cultivated.

He believed the final target of this technique to be in mind. Was it to improve his thinking speed? To make it stronger? Maybe.

He wouldn't know until he knew what the technique was. But when he had used the technique before, there had been a somewhat positive response from the technique when he used it. The Intent had been part of it too.

The technique certainly had nothing to do with weapons in this instance, so…

'Replication…' Alex thought. 'If I'm not replicating my weapon, what am I replicating?'

The Brain was the answer his brain came up with, but that made little sense. The Spiritual sea on the other hand was a more probable answer.

That had little possibility of being true as well.

Alex questioned himself on all the facts he knew and added one last fact that he had ignored this whole time.

"Whatever this is, it is meant only for people lower than the Immortal Origin realm to learn," he thought to himself. With that, he easily came up with the most possible answer.