Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

The man's words caused many sets of heads to turn in Alex's direction. All of their eyes shined as if they recognized him. Without wait, they came for Alex.

A woman out of the many people teleported next to Alex, appearing before everyone else.

With Alex's senses, he noticed the woman's arrival before she even did. His hand moved out to the side and the space between where he stood and the woman was immediately expanded to add a gap of nearly ten times as much as the woman had expected.

The woman's hands extended, but Alex was nowhere in her reach.

She was surprised momentarily. She hadn't expected Alex to be able to dodge, but that didn't matter as she still had the superior cultivation base, so capturing him would be of no work at all.

However, before she could do anything else, she saw two hands suddenly fly away from her, releasing a spray of blood. The woman paused, looking at the familiar hands.

Then, she looked down at her arms that ended at the elbows.

Without her even realizing, both of her arms had been cut off.

The woman panicked, not understanding what had happened. She tried to leave, but something pressed onto her neck. Something sharp.

The others who had noticed Alex weren't delayed at all. They were just a step later than the woman, so by the time the woman had her arms cut off, they had all arrived next to Alex.

And yet, before they could get close to Alex, Celestial Qi wrapped around their body. And at the same time, a thousand different silver swords appeared all around them, pressing at their neck from all angles.

If they were to so much as breathe, their skin would be cut immediately.

Bladedance stepped in between Alex and the woman who had teleported to him and gently grabbed onto the sword that had appeared on her throat.

Alex stared at everything from his vantage point, seeing hundreds of swords all around the dozens of humans that had come for him. And what surprised him more was that each one of those swords was all his master's Creation.

Her Sword Creation had somehow replicated itself in hundreds of different locations.

For a moment, Alex couldn't understand what was going on—why there were so many of the same swords. Could they have been replicated? Did his master have the Creation replication technique as well?

But this was far too many swords to just be replicated.

'Oh! This is her domain!' he thought, finally understanding that each one of these swords were instead something created out of her Domain. They didn't exist on their own.

Alex finally focused past the swords and at the people, all of whom had a cultivation base in the Divine realms. He was rather surprised to learn that, and even more surprised at the fact that they had come for him.

He didn't find any killing intent in them, but they had specifically targeted.

'They called me the alchemist, so they must know me,' Alex thought with a frown. 'How do they know me?'

Bladedance tapped her feet as she scanned the beach for more humans. There were still a few far away that hadn't yet come in closer, but they were no more than a few.

A few White Tigers appeared at the location quickly, trying to find the source of the commotion.

"Senior?!" Bai Jingshen asked. "What's going on?"

"I'm trying to find that out myself," Bladedance said. Her sword pressed onto the neck of the woman before her, while her eyes glared into the woman's eyes, sending fear striking down her spine.

"Now then, who are you? And why did you try to attack my disciple?" Bladedane asked.

The woman even struggled to gulp out of fear of cutting her own neck. Her arms were already gone, so there wasn't much she could do either.

"F-forgive me, senior," the woman said quickly. "I am only doing what I was told to."

"Oh?" Bladedance narrowed her eyes. "And what were you told to do?"

The woman's eyes flashed toward Alex for a moment before coming back toward Bladedance. "We were tasked to bring that young alchemist back with us."

"Back where?" Bladedance asked.

"The-the Divine Thunderforge realm!" the woman answered.

Bladedance paused for a moment. She then looked at everyone else. She pointed to the man that had first screamed for Alex. "What is your purpose here?"

"The same as her, senior. We were tasked with the same thing."

Bladedance pointed to another one. "And you?"

"It is the same," that person said as well.

"S-senior!" a woman who had remained silent until now called out. "Are… are you her Majesty, the Sword God?"

Bladedance turned toward the woman, recognizing her cultivation base to be slightly stronger than the others around there. "Do you recognize me?" she asked.

Several gasps rang out from the group as Bladedance confirmed the strong woman's suspicions. Never could they have guessed that they would randomly come to meet none other than the previous Sword God in such a remote location.

The strong woman herself seemed to be surprised that her assumption was true. "I have seen you before during the war," she said.

"I see. Then you sound like the best to answer here," Bladedance said. "Tell me truthfully why you all tried to come for my disciple. If I sense a hint of lie, I will kill you all."

Bladedance's words carried a level of killing intent that not a single one of the Divinities could ignore.

"We were tasked to find him," the woman answered. "The Storm God had noticed his disappearance from Hell, so we were meant to find him and bring him back."

Bladedance thought for a few moments, remembering how it was the Storm God that had sent Alex down to Hell.

"And this comes directly from the Storm God, does it?" she asked.

"He announced this mission to every Divinity in our world nearly a millennium and a half ago," the woman answered. "We have been searching for him ever since."