Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2090

Whisker's words left Alex thinking for a while. What he said had delved into territories that he hadn't even thought about.

Until now, the tournament and finding his family had been 2 separate things in his mind that he needed to choose from. But Whisker's words suddenly placed the two things right next to each other.

Who said that he had to make one choice and ignore the other? He could do both of them at the same time.

Alex knew even as his thoughts went in that vein that he was just making excuses. He wasn't really trying to do the two things at once, but rather using this excuse to go to the tournament. Even so, he knew the idea was legit. He could search for his family on the way to the Sky God's palace. He would just have to take a bit of detour. Alex didn't immediately choose this option. He still had to go through it on his own time to make sure he wasn't overlooking anything more obvious. The last thing he wanted to do was give up on another opportunity that was much better than this.

Alex spent the next few days deciding on this matter, and at the same time, started making changes around his store. He still worked, but he made it so that Wang Yanwei and Fang Yuxie were the ones that were handling most of the tasks.

Since he was going to leave in a year, they would have to continue with the work and thus needed to start taking over.

In the week since the Duel, a lot had changed not just for Alex, but also for his shop.

With his newfound popularity in the city, the influx of his customers had nearly quadrupled when compared to his peak. And this was after people knew he wouldn't make that great a pill for them or that he would be staying here for more than a year.

Many people tried to commission Alex to make their pill, but the pill would be made by whoever had the time. He made no guarantees that he would make their pills or that he would make them as good as he could. Still, the people were more than excited to get a chance to have him make the pill.

As it stood, Alex was stronger than all Supreme Immortal Alchemists anyone knew, and given the infancy of his profession, they wanted to make use of what they assumed to be his naivety to try and get pills from him.

Not a single one of them would be getting anything above 85% from him.

The Bluehorn Guild had also shut down all of its businesses around Alex's shop as they were only going to be bleeding money by keeping it up. With all customers going to the Dawn Apothecary, there was no point for the other stores to exist.

Bluehorn Guild had suffered a big loss thanks to that. On the day when Alex finally was to start accepting commissions for 99% pills, he and Fang Yuxie arrived outside the store.

Many people were already gathered at the store, ready to give their orders, each one of them was already lined up and had their names written onto a talisman by one of the staff who had stayed behind for exactly this.

Ever since morning, he had been taking the names of everyone and placing them in a queue.

Alex greeted the people who stood out, thanked them for coming, and asked them to wait a few more minutes while he opened the store. He walked in with Fang Yuxie, who left to prepare as people would come in soon.

Alex waited for a few of the staff to enter first and then let the customers stream in. The staff outside handed the talisman over to him, and Alex looked inside of it.

There were exactly 360 names within it, not a single one of which was repeated. Just the way he had asked for it.

"I have your names on a list and I will be using this list to decide who goes first. You have been told what number you are, so you can decide to leave here today without telling me what you want. So long as you decide what you want before it is your turn, it will be acceptable."

"If you do already have planned what you want, you can give me a talisman for exactly what you want. I will get to it when I have the time for it," Alex said.

The crowd of people was rather excited to hear that. Most of them decided to wait a while to decide what they wanted to have made. Only a few told Alex exactly what it was that they wanted.

Alex called out the people for the first week's work and asked them for the pill recipe and ingredients. If he knew how to make a pill, that was fine. But if he had to learn it, he would be in trouble without the recipe.

The first seven people handed over their storage bags and talisman for the recipe. Alex took it all with him and put it aside separately. The rest of the people took little to no time with their own recipes and ingredients as well and handed them over to Alex.

Alex made sure to remember who gave who and noted it all down on the talisman in his hands. Once he was done with everyone, the crowd left, many promising to return when they knew for sure what it was that they wanted him to make.

Fang Yuxie walked up to him after he left, a frown clear on her face.

"What's wrong?" he asked her.

"Come help me. Sister Wang isn't here yet, so I have to look at this kid's issue and I can't make heads or tails of it," she said. "You'll need to take a look."

"Oh, okay," Alex said and went into the room.

There was an actual kid in the room, no older than 14 years from the look of it. But given that he had a decent cultivation base in the early Saint realm, he had to be much older than this.

"What is the issue?" Alex asked, looking at the young man's symptoms. "I can't tell. He says he is feeling pain in his heart, but… I can't find the issue," Fang Yuxie said.

"Oh!" Alex said, getting down to check on the young man. He took the young man's wrist to send his Spiritual sense through it when suddenly the young man grabbed his wrist rather tightly as well.

Alex looked up at the kid, confusion ever present in his eyes. "What's wrong? Does it hurt?" he asked.

The kid shook his head. "I'm not hurt," he said. "I just needed to meet you to get you this," he said, handing over a talisman to Alex.

Alex took the talisman curiously and read what it said. As he read it, his eyes slowly changed. He had to reread the talisman to make sure he was reading it right at all. Soon, fury filled his eyes.

"Who gave you this?"