Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 2904: Given

Chapter 2904: Given

Alex arrived back at the mountain peak and sat next to a short tree, head in his hand. He tried to remember anything beyond walking out of the Void, but he couldn’t.

The last thing he could remember was taking one step forward. After that, he woke up in the mud. And somehow, between those two moments, over a millennia had passed.

If that was the case, then where were the memories gone?

Whisker jumped on his shoulder. “Are you alright, brother?” he asked.

“Yes. Well, not really,” Alex said. “I’ve lost so much time and I cannot for the life of me remember why.”

“Do you not remember anything then?” Whisker asked.

“No. The last thing I remember is sending those people to my Soul Space and finding the book. After that, I didn’t interact with you all,” Alex said.

“So you don’t remember any of what you gave us?” Whisker asked.

“I gave you something?” Alex asked. “What did I give you?”

Pearl arrived at the same time. “Quite a few things. You gave Whisker a pill. You gave us the book. You even gave us a beast core to use,” he said.

“What?” Alex asked with a confused look. “What are all of these things?”

“You don’t even remember these then?” Whisker asked, bringing out a pill bottle. He handed it to Alex.

Alex took the pill bottle and looked inside to find half a dozen pink pills. He didn’t recognize the pill based on just what it was, so he brought it out and checked it more carefully.

He studied the pill for some time before his eyes went wide. “This… this is ingenious. It’s a pill that can improve anyone’s cultivation base in the Immortal Origin realm by just eating one of them.”

Whisker nodded. “You gave it to me. You were the one who made these?”

“I did?” Alex asked, looking inside again. Now that he looked at it, there were 9 pill veins in each of the pills. “Wait, did I really make these? I don’t remember.”

Whisker didn’t know what to say.

Pearl brought out a book and handed it over to Alex. It was an old book with a torn cover. The inside pages were yellowed with age as well, with black text thankfully visible through it all.

Alex flipped through it, taking some time to understand what it was. “What an incredible technique,” he said softly. “It makes use of a person’s own aura to try and copy the aura of an existing something. That way, even if the object itself doesn’t have much aura, you can create your own later on and study it for yourself.”

“Or absorb it as your Origin,” Pearl added. “You gave us this book so we could use it once we enter the Immortal Transcendence realm.”

Alex was quite stunned. “Oh, it can be used for that too,” he said. He wouldn’t have thought it so quickly.

“And what was the last one?” he asked. “A beast core?”

Whisker nodded. He pulled out a beast core and handed it to Alex.

Alex took the core, an ordinary thing, and tried to sense it. To his surprise, the core was very weak.

“What is this?” he asked.

Neither Pearl nor Whisker answered.

“You guys don’t know?” he asked.

“You never told us,” Pearl said.

“You only said to keep it safe for now and to use the technique when we can to absorb the aura in this core,” Whisker said. “Since there is not enough for the two of us, you said we should decide later who gets it.”

Alex found it really weird having words attributed to him that he had never said. But then, if Pearl and Whisker were saying it, then he had truly said them. In which case, he had simply forgotten what he had said.

“Okay, so give me a short idea of exactly what happened after I sent those people there,” Alex asked.

“You read the book of healing and told me to read it too. Then we started healing the wounded. Once they were healed, you told me to send them to the playground.”

“Ah! So I did say that, huh?”

Whisker nodded. “Then you said it would take some time, probably a millennia before we could leave, which would be about 50 years for us. So we sent everyone to the Timeless Palace while I waited outside, taking care of the land.”

Alex nodded slowly. “And those things I gave?”

“You gave me the beast core first, telling us that we should both learn from it. When we told you there was no aura in it, you gave us the book a few years later,” Whisker said. “The pills came many years after.”

“I wasn’t really there to witness most of it,” Pearl said. “I was busy cultivating.”

“I see,” Alex nodded. “So I have missed something, I see.”

Pearl nodded slowly. “So you really don’t remember the slightest bit of where you were or what you were doing?”

Alex shook his head.

“Hmm, were you captured by someone and barely managed to escape?” Pearl asked. “But given you gave us these things, maybe you weren’t. Maybe that place was dangerous then?”

“Maybe,” Alex said. “But since I don’t remember, it doesn’t matter right now. I’ll try and figure out what I’m missing later on, but for now, we need to deal with our current situation.”

“We’ve wasted over a thousand years doing nothing, so we need to find our way back to the upper realm as soon as we can,” Alex said.

Pearl nodded. “Once we find a place to settle for a time, we’ll need to spend some time to confirm what our Creations will be,” he said. “I’m just one step away from the Immortal Transcendent realm.”

“Oh? Wow. You really are faster than me this time, Pearl. I’m only…”

Alex paused, his mind baffled by what his senses were sensing of him. “Huh? How can this be?”

Somehow, he was at the peak of the Immortal Origin realm as well, only a push away from the Immortal Transcendent realm.