Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy
chapter-2249

Alex returned to the courtyard. Jai Heiyun had some stuff to deal with back at her own place, so she would be coming later around the evening.

Alex met up with Momo again, watching her training. Of the three techniques he had given her, she had come very close to mastering the Jade Skin technique and was getting better with even the Flickering Shadows technique. But the Flame Mastery Scripture was a very tough ask for her considering her very weak Fire spirit roots. It wasn't that she could not do it, but asking her to be able to use such a technique in just under a month was too much, especially when she had multiple things to do.

Once she had progressed in the other techniques and had more free time, she could perhaps improve upon it very rapidly.

Rapidly was what Alex needed as he only had 50 years to have Momo reach the highest cultivation base she could. With that, there would be a higher chance of winning the tournament.

"I'm not going to start learning how to make pills today, am I?" Momo asked Alex.

Alex rubbed her head a little. "Soon," he said. "Maybe even tomorrow night if I get lucky. If not, within this week."

Momo's eyes widened. "Really? That soon?" she asked.

Alex nodded. "Let's just hope Pearl wins today's fight," he said. "Speaking of which, is he still cultivating?"

"I wasn't aware he was back," Momo said.

"He came back this morning," Alex said. "It seems he's preparing. Alright, go on and do your thing for now. We should be leaving for the other continent tomorrow morning."

Momo nodded and continued her training with Whisker.

Alex went back to his own room waited until it was time and then walked out. Pearl walked out next to him.

"Are you ready?" Alex asked him.

Pearl nodded. "As ready as I'll ever be," he said while releasing a deep breath. Both his and Alex's eyes shot to the side as they saw the 5 from this morning come back once again.

"Brother Whitestorm," Pearl said, walking toward them. "I am disappointed that instead of owning up to your mistake, you decided to loot us instead. I would've thought you better than this, but whatever."

"You've already accepted the bet. Do you intend to back out of this duel now?" the fox asked.

"Of course not," Pearl said. "I was simply mentioning what I feel about you at the current moment."

The fox hid whatever emotion he was feeling and turned around. "Follow me. I know where we will be fighting."

Alex quickly messaged Whisker a few things, and then the group left the city, moving to the eastern side. They flew away from the city, flying to a location that was quite deserted, even from regular plant and animal life.

The Qi was still quite vibrant around the flatland where they landed and got ready for the duel.

Alex looked around, seeing all the colors from around the land. He searched for any section of the land that was releasing a particularly large amount of energy or aura at all. He was trying to see if the fox had anything planned per change.

However, it seemed the fox had remained truthful to his oath and done nothing to break the integrity of the upcoming duel. It was going to be just a simple one-on-one battle between Pearl and the dark-skinned man where the person who died, was incapacitated or gave up would end up losing.

"I am excited to see where you will bring out the 3 Million spirit stones from," the fox said. "That too in less than a month."

"I have my ways," Alex said. He turned toward Pearl and patted him on the back. "You got this."

Pearl nodded and walked away from the group, taking a position in a location far away in the flatland. He brought out his spear and waited for his opponent to take his place as well.

The dark-skinned man walked toward the other side, pulling out a dark-brown sword that he slowly waved around as he prepared. As he waved, flickers of light flew out from his sword, revealing to everyone that he had Sword Aura. He was trying to scare Pearl, but it wouldn't work.

Pearl had Spear Aura too after all.

Pearl looked at the man, all other thoughts draining from his mind. He felt the man's cultivation base, something that was 3 times stronger than what his own cultivation base could reach in terms of strength.

It was going to be a difficult battle where most of his advantage would come from his ability to move around the spot.

Pearl limbered up a little, moving his spear as he prepared too. He stared directly at the man's eyes, watching him prepare as well.

The man showed no fear. In fact, he seemed to think it would end very soon. It was as though it was more trouble for him to fly all the way out here than it would be to fight Pearl.

'He's quite confident,' Pearl thought. 'So am I.'

Pearl remembered what he was. A goddamn White Tiger. The strongest of all beasts in all of existence. And even among them, he was a special one.

He believed in himself, not to mention his brother who believed in himself. That was all he needed right now.

The two fighters stared at each other for a while before the fight officially began.

Pearl attacked immediately, shrinking space the moment he could move so that his spear hit the man in an instant. The man moved at the same time, but only to defend himself.

He defended against Pearl's attack easily without being phased by it.

'He knows my moves,' Pearl thought. It was a dangerous battle to have to fight where you knew nothing about the opponent and he knew everything about you.

'Or he thinks he does,' Pearl thought, immediately attacking a few more times.

The man casually stopped all of those attacks, not even breaking a sweat to defend against the attacks. They were so weak that it didn't even feel like he was fighting anything.

After blocking a couple of the attacks, the man swung his sword, releasing a bright white attack that tore the ground as it came toward him.

Pearl was about to attack but realized that it was too much for any of his attacks. So instead, he disappeared, teleporting to another side.

The man looked to the side. "So you can teleport," he said, finally speaking for the first time. "I was told you could, but I hadn't imagined it would be such a pure form of teleportation. So talented and has an understanding of space. You are quite strong. We will be willing to forgive you if you choose to work under me."

Pearl frowned for a second. "Under you? Never," he said.

"Don't be so quick to say no. Working under me has a lot of benefits that you would absolutely want," the man said. "I will give you time after you are defeated to make the choice." The man's sword glowed brightly. "Speaking of which, that should be right now."