Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

"The hell?" Alex said as he saw the only thing that was inside the storage bag.

An egg.

Alex took out the egg and carefully looked at it. The surface of the egg was the same rough texture as any chicken's egg he had handled back at home.

The size was a bit bigger than a normal chicken's egg, and that confused Alex as to what it could be.

His spiritual sense didn't enter the eggshell either.

'Could it be a bird?' he thought. 'Am I going to have to raise a bird now?'

'No wait, reptiles lay egg too. So do fishes, but that's not what a fish egg looks like,' he thought.

"So it can be some sort of bird, or snakes, or lizards and such huh," he thought.

"Also, what do I do to get it to hatch? Is this egg even fertilized? Should I heat it under low-temperature flames?"

Many questions ran across Alex's mind, but not a single answer came to him.

In the end, he could only put the egg back into his ring and wait until he left and found more information about how beast eggs.

Just then, Alex heard something and turned around, only to see a woman standing not far away from him with a grin on her face.

Alex's heart skipped a beat when he saw this woman. It was the same crimson-robed girl he thought he had escaped.

Alex jumped down from the tree and stood in front of her. He then sent out his spiritual sense all around her and checked if there were more people with her.

"So strong," the girl said with genuine shock. "How did you get your spiritual sense to become this wide?"

Alex didn't notice anyone around her at all. 'Are they far away?' he wondered. Judging by the girl's cultivation base, Pearl would definitely have a hard time.

Not only Pearl, Alex himself would have a relatively hard time against her. 'Should I hide Pearl? Or should I use his help?' Alex thought.

In the end, he decided to protect Pearl for now. If he needed help, Pearl could come out whenever required.

In a flash of white light, Pearl went back to the beast space on Alex's body.

The girl in front of him frowned when she saw that. "Are you not going to answer me?" she asked with a tone that said her feelings were hurt.

"Why are you after me?" he asked.

"Because you are special," she said. "Cultivation hiding technique, invisibility technique, teleportation technique, and such a large spiritual sense."

"If I had to guess, you have a lot of treasures on you right now, don't you?" she asked.

Alex frowned. 'I can't waste any more time,' he thought and sent out Heaven's Impact at the woman.

As the fist-shaped spiritual energy was about to reach her, an illusory barrier only visible to his spiritual sense appeared in front of her that blocked Heaven's impact.

Alex frowned. 'I can't win this,' he thought. If someone with a higher cultivation base than him had ways of protecting themselves from his spiritual sense, then the only thing Alex could do was run.

And so he ran. Using every skill aside from the Earth devouring technique, Alex ran as far as he could and left the woman behind.

He ran for nearly half an hour and almost reached the edge of the realm.

He stopped after a while and panted for a few seconds. Then, he jumped up to a tree to gather the Qi he had lost.

It didn't take him very long to get back to top shape and jumped down to go somewhere else instead of staying in the corner of the world.

Just as he was thinking that he saw the woman walking through the thicket in the forest with a casual pace and a smile on her face.

"You left without answering me, so I had to come to find you," she said.

By this time, Alex was more than shocked. 'How is this woman finding me?' he thought. He had clearly run in random directions to arrive where he had, and somehow she had come directly to him.

Judging by her pace, she must've taken the most straight route as well.

'Is she tracking me somehow?' he thought. Using his spiritual sense, he tried to find out what she was using to find him, but there was nothing on his body.

No talisman or any Qi.

"How are you finding me?" Alex asked with a serious face.

"Do you think I will reveal my skills to you?" she asked with a giggle. "You know what? Maybe I will if you just tell me how to increase my spiritual sense to the same level as you?"

Alex tried probing her spiritual sense to see how strong it was, but clearly, it wasn't very strong.

The girl frowned a little. "Don't think you can win against me just because your spiritual sense is stronger than me," she said. "My treasure helps block any mental attack that did not originate from a Saint expert themselves," she said.

"Also, I doubt you would want your measly True Lord 1st realm cultivation base to use against me, right?" she asked.

Alex's heart lost another beat. 'How does she know?' he thought. He had been hiding his cultivation base as much as he could, and yet the woman had found it somehow.

"Can we leave our separate ways?" Alex asked. He didn't want to do this, but it seemed he would have to use the one way he had to escape this situation.

"I'm on good terms with brother Fu Tao. Can you let me go on that account?" Alex asked as he looked at her face for changes.

And changes he found. The initially haughty and curious face turned into surprise.

"You know Fu Tao?" she asked.

"Yes," Alex said. "I was the one that helped him return to this empire from the other side of the Northern forest."

The woman's face changed once again. This time, it went from surprised to angry and raged.

'What?' Alex thought as he looked at the face.

"You were the one who helped Fu Tao return?" she asked. "You were the one who destroyed my future as the best disciple of the family?"

'Holy shit, she's crazy,' Alex thought. It seemed he had somehow managed to find the only fuel he had and dumped it all on her silently burning anger.

Now she was raging.

Suddenly, to Alex's senses, waves like spiritual energy crashed onto him, threatening to devour his mind.

Alex sent out his own spiritual sense to counter it but despite being stronger than her spiritual sense in general, Alex had a hard time fighting it.

He felt like he was using normal Qi in his body to fight a power that was born out of a technique.

Brute force could only help him as much.

Alex sent out a Heaven's Impact, and as he expected, it quickly broke through the wave and struck the girl. However, another spiritual barrier appeared to protect her.

'I'm not going to get through to her like this,' Alex thought. He needed to do something quickly.

The poisoned sword appeared in his hands and he rushed forward. At the same time, a sword appeared in the girl's hands as well.

Fu Xiran's main expertise was in mental attacks. Given that her family's signature skills were all spiritual attacks.

From a young age, she had been trained in the arts of mental attacks and when she was able to prove herself to the family, they finally handed her a Spirit Cleansing Lily when she entered the True Realm.

This year, she was already 30 years old. A 30-year-old at True Lord 9th realm would be considered a top-class talent anywhere.

However, to the Fu Family, who had Fu Tao, a 26-year-old talent that entered the True King realm, she was nothing.

The only time in her entire life when she had heard news about Fu Tao, which was also good news for her, was when she learned of his death.

However, not a few months later, that too was destroyed by another news about his return.

She had never felt more anger and despair in her whole life. She wanted to beat him, and become the strongest in the family.

She wanted more than what she had right now. And just as she wished for it, in came a young man with a spiritual sense that dwarfed anyone in the entire group of the young generation.

After placing a spiritual mark on him, she had also come to find out about his cultivation base as well.

'Hmph, I will have to carefully disable him without activating the teleportation talisman he too may have,' she thought.

So, when the fight began, she met his sword with her own.

And then, her eyes went wide.

"What the hell is this strength?" she shouted out loud at him. The mark was clearly telling her that he was in True Lord 1st realm, and yet the strength… it was close to True Lord 7th realm.

Alex's sword glowed with golden light as well as a white light that tried to cover his sword but ended up being nothing more than an outline.

'Sword Intent as well?' the girl looked in shock. When she took that attack, she felt the strength of True Lord 8th realm.

'I need to do something quick, or I won't be able to defeat him without using my strong attacks she thought.

So, she brought out some things from her storage bag and got to work