Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

After the Pill Splitting Qi, Alex decided to focus on his various techniques to not just improve them, but also alter them to make them more impactful.

As of yet, there was really only just one method of alteration that he was hoping to do. That was combining two techniques into one.

There were complicated procedures when trying to combine two techniques into one. So, to have as little difficulty as possible, Alex started with the two techniques that were close to each other.

He wanted to combine the Iron Fist technique and the Golden Spears technique. Given that both of the techniques had something related to Creation major meridian, and that creation coming from a Metal spiritual root made it easy to combine the two techniques.

He had been training how to do that for a few days back in the Western Continent, but he had to stop due to his work there.

There was not much point in training in the Central continent either. After returning to the Southern Continent, he had been busy elsewhere, so he was only getting to go back to it now.

Alex had improved both techniques to the peak, so all he needed to do was combine them. 

To combine them, he needed to go through the same process he had with the Pill Splitting Qi. He needed to separate the technique into individual steps that it had and then combine the parts he needed.

From the Iron Fist Punch technique, Alex didn’t want to keep the fist shape of the attack, but he wanted the force that came at the end that sent the attack flying.

For the Golden Spear technique, he wanted to create all four of the spear but instead of having to control them, he wanted them to automatically shoot off in front of him at the target.

After subtracting one part from the first technique and adding the other part to the second technique for nearly 3 weeks, Alex came up with a new technique.

He practiced it on the Immortal Puppet in front of him.

He punched into the air while using his technique. All of a sudden, 4 spears made up of Metal Qi formed in the air and instantly shot toward the puppet in front of him. 

Each spear was strong on its own, so 4 attacking at the same time had quite the strength behind it. At the very least, it was no different than being attacked by 4 Iron Fist punches at once.

Alex was more than happy with the technique he had come up with using the two old ones. He called the new technique Golden Spear Punch and moved on to other similar techniques.

There weren’t many techniques that were similar enough to the two to combine them. 

Alex combined the sword strikes Elusive Heavenly Sword with the Static Slash he had acquired from the Palace treasury after becoming the king. He only formed a single slashing technique that shot out a lightning slash, which Alex called the Heavenly Static Slash.

Alex made up a fire technique that he could shoot forward. He improved it to its peak and combined it with the explosion technique he had learned from the dao and created another new technique, which he called the Bursting Blaze.

Alex made up another technique using the 21 Sword Array as a base. He found it hard to change the technique when he tried adding swords that broke the array’s sequence. The sequence he found was the number of swords that needed to be put in each layer.

3, 6, 12, 21, 33, 48… and so on was the sequence he needed to follow. Alex got up to the 6th layer, which in total asked for 123 swords. However, he found it hard to collect that many swords for now, so Alex moved it down to the 5th number, which used a total of 75 swords. 

75 Sword Array was what Alex came up with as the name for the technique. He moved on from it once he was done with it.

Alex tried to take the Golden Spear Punch and mix it with his Penta-Sword technique of his, but the two techniques were a little too different for him to possibly combine them at once.

Once he was done with similar techniques, Alex moved on to converting techniques into different techniques that did the same thing but used a different Elemental Qi instead.

There was a very easy technique for Alex to start with in this one. He had the 5 Elemental Barrier, which formed a barrier using the 5 normal elements. All Alex wanted to do was add Yang and Yin into the barrier as well, turning it into the 7-Elemental Barrier.

It took him a month to go through various possibilities before adding the two elemental Qi into the barrier to form it. Alex had succeeded, but that was only the beginning

He had made the barrier, but the barrier was in no way as strong as it could be. 

The strongest defensive barrier technique Alex had was the Swirling Water Shield technique which spun a bunch of water Qi in a curved barrier that instead of just stopping an attack, it deflected it, making the barrier use up much less energy and stay intact that much longer.

Now, Alex had to try and slowly made a spiral barrier for each element and then add it all together to form a single technique.

This was the hardest task Alex took on since the Pill Splitting Qi. It took him such a long time to complete it, that in the meantime, the Sundering Sanctum opened and closed.

There was no winner this time around, and Alex had to go there himself to get everyone out as the formation at the top of the artifact was broken and no one could come out on their own.

After sending everyone out, Alex spent some time talking with the spirit in there and some more time refining the playground. It was going to take a long time before he got anywhere at all with it.

Alex returned back to the palace and completed the technique that he had been trying for so long. After months, the technique was finally perfected, with all 7 elements working together in a swirl to form a barrier.

He named it the All Swirling Elemental Shield. 

Once he was done, Alex tested the shield around a bit and noticed that it was strong against all elemental attacks, with the strength varying depending on the strength of his own Spiritual roots.

After that, Alex decided to focus on making more Blood Beasts. He was handed over some Saint beast cores by Bai Jingshen upon asking and also had gathered his own from throughout the Southern Continent.

He had been gathering his blood during all these months, so there was no doubt that he had enough blood to form dozens of blood beasts, but he worried that it was going to take a lot of time.

As Alex thought that, he looked over to his left arm instinctively to check on Pearl’s tattoo.

To his utter dismay, the tattoo on his arm had completely vanished.