Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2176

"Reforge… my sword?" Alex asked, confused. "How does that help me?"

"Your main issue is that your sword is weak, by the standards of which you will soon reach. If your sword were instead to be stronger, made up of better material, it can help you fight Divinities without you having to worry about its fragility."

Alex took a moment to gather his thoughts and understanding of the situation. This was the fourth option awarded to him, but he couldn't see how this was any different than giving up on his sword entirely. Unless…

"Won't my sword's nascent spirit die when it is reforged?" Alex asked.

"Normally, yes. But if it is blood-refined, not necessarily. Spirits, even when nascent can survive most damages if they are blood-refined because they have a bond with the person forging them. If you are still alive when your sword is molten back, they can survive the process. I do have to mention that they will be damaged, so it's not an easy process."

"Oh… so I can remake my sword without having to worry about the spirit being destroyed? I won't have to blood refine it again when forging it?" Alex asked.

"No, you won't have to do it," Grimsight said. "It is amazing that you managed to forge a weapon with blood refinement honestly. That is not something you normally see with cultivators. Most artifact creators don't like working with others, so the chances of any weapon being blood refined is very little."

"That gives me some hope, senior," Alex said.

Grimsight nodded. "Blood Refining your sword, when you did, is a blessing you did not understand at the time. Thank whoever it was that will help you gain a stronger sword soon."

"I will," Alex said. As soon as Godslayer woke back up, that was.

Alex learned a little more about Blood Refining, understanding that the chances of the Midnight's spirit's survival were highly likely. That did mean that he would be technically restarting the process of refining his sword again.

The sooner he did it, the better it would be.

"Do you have any suggestion on what sort of metals I should be using? Are there any particular ones you have in mind, senior?" Alex asked.

"Whatever metal it is that you use, it has to form a good alloy with the Starforged Tungsten, so there aren't many metals you can use. I suggest finding an artifact master who knows about metals and alloys and asking him what high-grade metal benefits from having Starforged Tungsten in it."

"I will do that," Alex said. "Where would I find one though?"

"We are going to Molten Hearth Continent next, aren't we? You can ask one there. They are known for their smithy after all," Grimsight said.

"I see. I will do that, senior," Alex said.

"If that is all, I will leave," Grimsight said, getting back up. He was about to walk away when he paused and said, "Oh right, about Pearl's spear. He's told me that he has shards of a broken spear that he wants to reforge too, but hasn't done so because he wants it to be strong enough that it doesn't break. Find some for him too."

"I will do that," Alex said. Pearl had told him that a while ago, so he remembered it.

After Grimsight was gone, Alex spent some time doing nothing and just thinking about the future. He had so many things to do, so many things to remember.

He had to learn how to make at least 10 different pills in 10 different cauldrons. Then he had to learn how to make 20 of the same pills in a single cauldron. After that, he had to learn how to make different pills in the same cauldron.

Aside from that, he had to learn how to efficiently make Pill Fusion happen. And then practice making pills that act as ingredients. After that, there was the task of practicing how to make pills when one of the ingredients was a pill.

Aside from that still, he had to think about the tournament. He had to think about what to refine inside Memory to improve its spirit. What metals to get to reforge Midnight? What metals to get to forge Pearl's spear?

There was also Whisker, who was getting close to entering the Immortal realms. Alex didn't know how that was going to go. He had to think about the two plants in his Soul Space as well and feed them.

He wanted to find more about the Alchemy God too, find more about who he was and how he had become so good at alchemy. Was the three books he had all that he needed to reach this height, or was there something else as well?

Then he had to find his family, go back to the Myriad Spirit realm, and then go to Godkiller's tomb.

The amount of things he needed to do hadn't been this many when he first began planning to leave the Myriad Spirit realm. And suddenly, in just a few decades, so much more was added.

On one hand, he was annoyed at how many important things he needed to get to. On another hand, he was happy that there was so much more to life than just what he was planning. There were things he couldn't imagine yet that would be waiting for him in the future.

Alex sighed deeply. "I don't have to worry," he told himself. "I have the time. One step after another. I can do it."

After telling himself that, he started with his Alchemy training once more.

He tried Pill Fusions first because they were the easiest to do and the most abundant in terms of resources to him right now. He had so many pills he had made that it was the thing to train for first.

Regarding Pill Fusion, Alex had already understood mostly about it. Compress the Energy. Compress the Body. Rejoin them.

That was the main thing he had to worry about. The thing he had to now train for was to make sure the compressed energy was equal to the compressed body for the energy.

If there was more energy, it would be wasted. If it was less, the remaining powder would cause Pill Poisoning. It needed to be perfect for Alex to accept that he had learned it. Depending on what mattered, Alex had to be ready to go either way.

As Alex trained, on the very 2nd pill, he was hit with a surprise he hadn't been expecting at all. He wanted to see how perfect he could get the pill to be and had accidentally made the energy less compressed than the pill's body, which ended up with extra energy.

But then, because the pill was filled to the brim with energy, even though there was extra outside of it, the pill itself was perfect with 100% Harmony.

And so, the skies above him rumbled as pill clouds gathered. Alex did not force the clouds to form just inside. His master was around, so he didn't have to hide it.

But still, he hadn't expected himself to make pill clouds form with Pill Fusion on the very second pill.