Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2120

Alex wanted to learn more about the aura, trying to get to understand it at a deeper level. He wanted to use that understanding to help improve his Intent. He had been through this twice before, so it shouldn't have been that difficult.

However, as he tried improving his Intent through the painting, he realized that he needed to go deeper into the mysteries and try to learn them all. He fell into a lull as he did so as he began understanding more and more of the aura.

There had been something about the aura that had confused him since the first day he had placed his feet on the stairway. The pressure he felt was not the same as what a normal cultivator could place upon other weaker cultivators.

Those were aura that directly came from their cultivation base and their strong Qi, placed upon someone with a weaker cultivation base and weaker Qi. This was different.

The pressure he felt came in the form of weight. It was as though they were meant to carry boulders on top of them as they moved. The weight had been real.

However, there were no real weights for them to carry truly. It was all done by the aura, the pressure. And yet, Alex believed there was actual weight associated with the aura.

It made no sense to him how that could be possible.

As he contemplated more and more on the topic, he stumbled upon a possibility that sounded preposterous, but the more he thought about it, the more it made sense.

What if he wasn't carrying fake weights at all? What if… what if he himself had grown heavy? It ended up meaning about the same thing. Whether you were carrying a lot of weight or you yourself were heavy, the end result was you would struggle to move your body very easily and tire yourself out quickly.

However, to Alex, the difference was immense.

It wasn't the result that changed, but the method of how they got to the result. If it had not been fake weights placed on him, but rather himself that had become heavy, then that could only mean one thing about the whole stairway.

It made sense why he had felt traces of Earth Dao in this place. It made sense for just about everything he had come to understand surrounding the Stairway.

Fake weights could be put on a person in a million different ways, but increasing their physical weight could only be done in one single way.

By increasing gravity.

As Alex contemplated on the mysteries of the Dao he had gotten so intrinsically close to after his many paintings, he began stumbling into its truths, its laws.

He slowly understood the Dao of Gravity.

Alex opened his eyes to the morning sun and took in a deep breath as the worldly laws fell upon him, aiding him with his understanding of the Dao now that he had gotten so very close to it.

The few mysteries he still had about the Dao were swept away by the worldly laws that made them transparent to him.

At the same time, the worldly laws carried with it natural energy, Qi, which refreshed his body and mind all at once. There was a reason why people found it difficult to discern if someone was breaking through to the next realm or simply learning a new Dao. It evoked a similar response from Heaven that you just couldn't discern without being present at the scene.

The many Immortals and Divinities that were gathered at the top of the First Mountain stared down in awe as they understood what was happening as well.

"What is going on? Is he learning a Dao?" Elder Goldsliver asked, having arrived just mere moments ago after sensing the disturbance.

"How long has he been there? How is he learning a Dao in the middle of the stairway?" the Sect Master asked.

"He has been there for not even a day," Elder Shang said, turning to face the other elders. "Have you ever known a disciple who learned a Dao in less than a day?"

Most of the other elders shook their heads. They simply had no idea such a thing was even possible.

"He probably already had some idea about whatever Dao he is learning," Elder Frosteyes said. "Talented he may be, not even he can learn a Dao from scratch within just a day."

"Maybe," Elder Shang said. "Does anyone recognize what Dao that is? It feels familiar, but—"

"It's the Dao of Gravity, elders," one of the new participants gathered in the area said. "It's a Dao I learned before I became an Immortal."

"Dao of Gravity?" the Sect Master said in surprise. "Then he did learn it from the stairway. Maybe he had gained some understanding 20 years ago when he first arrived. Or maybe he even had the fortune to learn it before that."

"Maybe…"

That was all the Elder could do. Everything was speculation. Nothing was a fact until Alex let them know himself.

Alex felt rather refreshed as the Worldly laws left the surroundings. He gathered his thoughts for the moment and understood what he had done.

He had learned a Dao. A new dao.

This was the first Dao he had learned since he had entered the Immortal realm. How long had it been since he learned his last Dao?

He looked to the side, down the mountain. The sky grew brighter and the dawn was about to break. The morning was approaching.

Not a single disciple remained on the stairway anymore. Only he was there.

Alex glanced at the bottom of the stairs and saw the nearly empty hourglass. He had maybe half an hour more at best.

"Oops. I spent too much time already," he thought and quickly got up. There were 6000 more steps left ahead of him, but he did not feel scared or anxious at all anymore.

For obvious reasons, he knew the next leg of his journey would be very easy.