Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2227

Both Pearl and Momo were shocked to find out that Alex wasn't joking at all. The entire reason he had come to the Hollowvine City was to leave it immediately.

Even so, he did spend about an hour of it going to Alchemy stores to buy what he could find. It was also a good time to have Momo learn more about the cultivation world.

With the 300 or so Spirit stones that Alex had, he bought a few low-quality pills at a very cheap price. He wanted to buy ingredients at first, but he recognized the value of buying cheap pills instead.

He bought 5 pills in total at a price of about 60 spirit stones per pill. The quality of the pills was horrible, but they were still above 50% harmony.

Once Alex got the pills, he took Pearl and Momo to the teleportation formation.

Each decade, they were allowed one free teleportation between anywhere in the continent. Alex saw no reason to not use it immediately and got to the one place where he was sure he could find some ingredients that he needed.

Even if he didn't find all of what he needed to pass the competition, at the very least, he was sure he would ingredients to soon make a living.

He did not want to live as though he had no money for anything at all. He wanted to be financially burden-free.

The city they teleported to was called the Fogbank city. It was the closest large city to the Great Fog Valley to the west. By the time they arrived there, the sun was about to set, so they had to quickly find a place to stay.

They didn't have anything to find a luxurious place to stay, but to their utter surprise, they didn't even have a regular place to stay. Because of the tournament, most of the places that one could stay in had been filled with people that either came from other continents or other worlds entirely.

It took Alex going around the city for an hour to find a place that was less fancy than what he stayed in when he was only a True realm cultivator.

"Well, at least we found a place to stay," Pearl said, suppressing his laughter at the sight of the place.

"What's wrong with this?" Momo asked. "It's quite good if I say so myself. It's better than where we were staying last time."

"The situation is different from last time too," Alex said.

"What's so different?" Momo asked.

"For one, we are now surrounded by Immortals and Divinities. Anything we do, they could spy on us. There aren't formations in this place that are strong enough to stop all of that."

'What?" Momo asked with a surprised look. "People can spy on us?"

"Yes," Alex said with a spy. "I don't think they will want to, but they can."

"How will I know if they are spying on me?" Momo asked.

Alex shrugged. "You have no way of knowing," he said. She needed to become a lot stronger than that to be able to sense her senses. Momo settled into one of the only two rooms they had gotten, and Alex and Pearl settled into the other room.

Alex sat on the bed in the room and laid back, sighing. "Finally, a big city. We're going somewhere," he said.

"Are we going anywhere though?" Pearl asked. "I checked the store back in that other city earlier. They did not have what you need."

"No, they did not," Alex said with a frown on his face. "My suspicion is growing more and more to be the truth every day."

"What suspicion?" Pearl asked.

"That before we came, they bought or picked every single ingredient that would be useful to us. They most definitely did that to the ingredients that were listed in our talisman," Alex said.

Pearl was a little surprised to hear that. "The ingredients you need were taken away? But why?" he asked.

"For the competition, probably," Alex said. "If everything we needed was right here in the continent, it wouldn't be much of a competition, would it?"

Pearl shook his head. "What then? What now?" he asked.

"For now… I will need to find more ingredients, then make more pills, then make more spirit stones. I need to be rich enough to leave this continent and go to another one."

"Do you think they will have the ingredients?" Pearl asked. "What if they have all been destroyed like this one too."

"No, no, no," Alex said, very confident. "That is highly unlikely to have happened. The most likely thing that is happening here is that before we came, they took away our possibility to find any of our ingredients, so we would have to go to another continent to find it."

"That is pretty cheap, right?" Pearl asked. "Just a couple thousand Immortal spirit stones."

Alex sighed. "Yeah, around that. It is fortunate they didn't increase the price to 10 times the normal price or something. They want us to travel normally but they also want us to do everything on our own."

Pearl nodded. "So where will we be going first?" he asked.

"First, I'm going to the Great Fog Valley. Once I am there, I will collect all the ingredients I can and make pills with them to sell here. Once I am done selling, I will hopefully have collected enough to reach the other continent."

Pearl thought for a while and nodded. It was a pretty good idea. "If I tried really hard, I could probably even do that in just 3 days," Alex said. "But I can't exploit the issue too much or they will start noticing things we do not want them to notice.

Pearl nodded his head. "It would be bad if they found out what you intend to do with those pills."

Alex smiled and pulled them out. "Time to make some money," he said and started using Divine Elemental Accord to improve the pill in his hand. His body took in part of the pill's energy and pushed it back out onto the pill, this time with additional energy.

As he forced the energy out, the pill absorbed the energy. What was previously a 56% harmony pill quickly grew to over 90% in less than a minute.

Alex stopped somewhere around 94%, not making it grow any more than that. Too much and he would get others' attention, which he did not want.

Alex felt his body groan in pain a little after improving the one pill. He took a short break and moved to improving the other one.

One by one, he spent the next hour improving all 5 pills until each one of them was between 90% and 95% of Harmony. With such quality, the pills would sell for quite a bit.

What he bought around 300 spirit stones would soon return him over 3 thousand, perhaps even more.

Alex could do it over and over, and earn money as soon as he could, but people would be watching every day. That was what most of these people had come here for.

He couldn't let them know his secrets.

Once Alex was rested, he placed the pills into his storage bag and went to check on Momo's cultivation progress.