Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2141

Alex flew slower than the others, but Silvermist and Grimsight slowed down to fly along with him. Snowleaf went on his own, flying up past him along with the many others around him who flew as well.

The air at this height was pretty much nonexistent but the barrier of the atmosphere still existed, albeit was got weaker around this stage. Then as Alex flew higher and higher it began getting weaker and weaker very quickly until there was nothing left at all.

Then, he was finally in outer space.

Alex felt a force on the inside of his body as the vacuum tried to pull out everything that was within him. It failed miserably to do any of that. Even Saint realm cultivators would be fine with this much force, let alone him, an Immortal.

"What do you think?" Silvermist asked, the voice coming from his mouth instead of his Divine sense. "Interesting, isn't it?"

It took Alex a split second to realize that he was using his Qi to help the sound travel in the vacuum. He looked toward his master and nodded. "It is interesting indeed," he said. "But not as fascinating as I would've imagined it to be."

"Have you been at tall heights before this?" Silvermist asked. "That may be the reason why you don't feel the awe that most people feel on their first time."

"There is that," Alex said. "But there is also the fact that this feels very similar to what the Void feels like. The lack of general direction due to weak gravity is reminiscent of the Void."

Silvermist's eyes widened somewhat in shock, and even Grimsight seemed taken aback by his words. "You've been inside of the Void?" he asked.

Alex nodded. "There is a Voidgate in my lower realm that connects two continents together. I've crossed it multiple times."

"Oh! A Voidgate," Silvermist nodded. "Those are stable enough to enter, certainly."

Alex nodded. "I never heard of the Myriad Spirit realm having one. Are they very rare?" he asked.

"They are rare, but that is not the reason why you didn't hear about them," the man said. "They are simply located in places that are owned by sects of big families, so most people don't talk about it."

"I believe your Blue Silk sect has one too within their mountains somewhere. I heard about it when I was still there back during the war."

"I see," he said. He hadn't heard about that from his elders, but then he didn't really spend much time in the sect trying to learn about it. He would have to do that in a century or so when he returned to the Blue Silk sect again after hopefully finding his family again.

"We should continue," Grimsight said from the side and the group began flying once more. Flying was so simple in space. Pearl and Whisker had it easy when they were within his Soul Space, but even then, his Soul Space had gravity affecting it. His perception of how his Soul Space was oriented presented a sort of gravity to it.

However, because there was no gravity here, Alex didn't need to continuously use his Qi to keep his body moving. Once he gave it a push, it continued moving at the same rate for a long distance.

The weak gravity from the Eclipsing Heaven realm that was affecting him still would still affect him causing him to continuously reapply Qi onto himself, but at some point, he would cross the threshold where the gravity of the Ever Dark Realm would win over the gravity of the Eclipsing Heaven realm and then they would fall toward it.

That point was still very far away though.

Alex checked his talisman as he flew, realizing that they had barely put a dent in the number. Unless he sped up, it would take him multiple days to get close to the realm above him.

"Master, can we speed up?" he asked.

"There is no hurry, you know?" Silvermist said. "But if you must, go as fast as you want. We can keep up."

Alex nodded and sped up. He didn't go too fast, just fast enough that he could go to the other realm in a single day. That probably wouldn't be the case, but he was just trying to do so.

"How much do you know about outer space?" Silvermist asked him.

"Not much," Alex said. "All I truly know about outer space is that there is no air here. I used to believe that if I stepped out into it, I would fall into the abyss, but I didn't know about gravity that well back then."

Silvermist nodded. "Space is… weird," he said. "It is not only weird. It's downright confusing."

"What do you mean, master?" Alex asked.

"I suppose I will have to start explaining things to you," he said, looking ahead at the figures that moved far past Alex. There were a few Immortals that flew too, but they too were far above Alex.

"The most important thing you have to remember about outer space is that in outer space, there is no Heaven," he said, turning to look back down at the world they had flown up from. "We've left behind the heaven."

"We've… left behind the heaven?" Alex couldn't believe what he was hearing. He turned back around and looked at the realm that glimmered with light in the darkness. A small bubble of air fluctuated the light as it came out. The heaven was there, and they had left it behind.

Alex remembered something Godslayer had said a long time ago. Something he had noticed himself back then, which he hadn't had the time to sense this time around.

The Heavens were the Intent left behind on the realms that covered it all. When he left outside of the proximity of the Intent, he was outside of heaven.

That was a concept he hadn't thought he would be dealing with when he was going to go to outer space. But now that he was here, he had to get used to it.

The heavens were no longer around him.

"The Heaven, as we call them, is in a way the intent of the world's Qi. You leave the world, you leave the heaven," Silvermist said.

"Not necessarily," Grimsight said from the side. "It could be more than just that."

Silvermist gave an annoyed look toward the man. "He doesn't need to know everything right now. Bits at a time," he said.

Alex took in Silvermist's information, but his mind was already thinking of other things at the same time. He remembered the theories that Godslayer brought up and what the heavens could be.

He had called the heaven just Intent, and not intelligent at all. But… Alex had heard its voice just a couple of years ago, hadn't he?"

'YOUR OATH… IS ACCEPTED'

He couldn't understand how something unintelligent could listen to oaths and answer back. It certainly wasn't the case, was it? There was some level of intelligence with the heavens.

And now, he had left that behind.

"What does that mean for me?" Alex asked his master. "If I've left Heaven behind, how does that change things?"