Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2166

Silvermist and Grimsight arrived back in the court and immediately went to meet up with Nurei to learn about the situation in the court. She handled the many pills that could only specifically be made by him, so he had to go to her.

He learned about the court and took over the pill commissions that had come for him while he was away for the past 3 years. If possible, he didn't want to work at the moment at all, but if he wasn't working, the court wasn't working.

These pills he was commissioned were ones that had Pill Souls in them and were easily the most expensive item one could buy in the entirety of Medicine World, surpassed maybe only by the Alchemy God's pills, but that was mostly based on his reputation.

The Alchemy God didn't work for just about anyone, so Silvermist and the rest of the Peerless Alchemists were the ones who got to earn the most.

"How's my disciple doing?" Silvermist asked while he read through the commissions to see what it was that he had to make. "I do not know," Nurei said.

Silvermist paused and looked at her. "What do you mean you don't know? I told you to look after him while I was gone."

"Your disciple stays in your mansion, senior brother. He does not come out and I do not go there. I only know that he has been inside the entire time, nothing more than that," Nurei said.

Silvermist nodded, finally understanding the situation. "Ah, I see. He hasn't asked for any ingredients then?" he asked.

"Nothing in the past 2 years at least," Nurei said. "Also, I wanted to talk to you about the pills he is making."

"Why? What's wrong with them?" Silvermist asked, concerned.

Nurei pulled out a small bottle and pulled out one of the pills. She handed it over to Silvermist, who easily determined the pill's quality. It was no higher than 90%.

"What about this pill?" he asked.

"Do you think that is enough for him to participate in the tournament?" she asked. "I have a bunch of pills here which he made, hundreds even. And not a single one has been better than 95% at best."

"At this rate, I am beginning to doubt he may not be the right one, senior brother. How about sitting this competition out?" she asked.

"Over 90%?" he asked. "Yes," Nurei said.

"He managed to make such good pills even under the situation? Do you happen to know how many he was making?" Silvermist asked her.

Nurei had not been expecting this reaction from him at all. "Am I… missing something?" she asked.

"I asked him to make as many pills as he could in a single cauldron. Every single pill you have received was most likely made by him with many others together. The fact that he still managed to make them with such a high level of harmony, is saying something about his ability isn't it?"

Nurei was shocked. "How… how many could he have made at once?" she asked. To reach the quality the pills had, she could not imagine Alex had made that many pills.

"I do not know. Guess I will go find out soon," Silvermist said. "Have little Shi meet me in my mansion with a bunch of set of ingredients for this pill."

He tossed the pill back to Nurei and walked away.

Grimsight went elsewhere for the moment and Silvermist returned to his mansion alone. He could feel Alex's aura coming from his room, but beyond that, Silvermist had no idea about Alex.

He respected his privacy enough that he did not look inside. He sent a message through a talisman, letting Alex know that he was there.

It was a while before Alex walked out of the room.

"Master, you're back!" Alex said as he walked into the living room and sat on one of the empty couches in the room.

"You've finally come out!" Silvermist said. "I've been waiting for so long."

"My apologies, master. I was cultivating so I couldn't come out right away."

"Okay, forget about that. Tell me, how many did you reach?" he asked.

"Do you mean pills I made at once? 18," Alex answered.

Silvermist gasped out loud. "18?" he asked. "Really?"

Alex nodded. "Once I break through a few more times, I should be able to do 20, maybe more."

Silvermist couldn't help but shake his head. "What luck I had to not just go back to my home world but also find such an incredible disciple. 18 is truly incredible."

"I think so myself too, master. But I have no context for it or someone to compare it to. Is it really that good?" Alex asked.

"It's good," Silvermist said. "Trust me. This is not just about your ability to make 18 pills, but also your ability to modify the recipe as needed for 18 pills, to have your ingredients refined without them interacting with each other. That is the main thing that shows how talented you are."

Alex slowly nodded. "What would you say is the capacity of one of the disciples in the sect around the same cultivation base as me?" he asked.

"With a cultivation base as weak as yours? Maybe 4 at best. But if we count the fact that you have a high battle power, there are some that can go up to 10. The highest I've seen of the current set of disciples in the court is 15. You still outrank them easily while having a long way to go."

Alex found himself feeling quite happy after the praise. "So, what now Master? What else do I need to do?" he asked. "I won't have to make different pills in the same cauldron, right?"

Silvermist snickered a little upon hearing that. "Do you think you are good enough to do that?" he asked.

Alex simply nodded. "I have done it once before. I have never tried it again after that because of the difficulty, and frankly the lack of need to learn the method. But if it is a requirement, I can try it again."

Alex remembered the time back in the Eastern Continent where he had taken part in the alchemy trial that was set up by the soul of the dead azure dragon.

There the final trial had been to make two pills at once, both of which were different, in the same cauldron. After some trial, he had managed to finally learn what he had to do for that and had thus learned it.

While it had been difficult at that time, because he now already knew the concept and was much stronger than before, he could learn it if he needed to.

Silvermist couldn't tell if his disciple was joking or not. After realizing that he wasn't, he got serious. "Can you actually do it? It's not a common skill, and as you've mentioned, it is not that useful a skill either. But, it is something that could definitely be useful in the tournament."

Alex nodded. "I can try it out. I don't think I will need as much time to master it, at least for just 2 pills since you say it will be useful in the tournament," Alex said. "Speaking of that, do you have any news regarding it, master?"