Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2242  Punch to the Face

The man came out of his concealment, revealing himself to be a middle-aged man with auburn hair and a thin face. He had an angered look on his face, just the same as Alex, and a fan in his hand.
He pointed toward Alex with the closed fan and said, "I have warned you once. Leave the flower behind, or I will truly kill you."
Alex became angrier after the threat. He looked at the man over a few times, seeing his cultivation base toward the end of the Immortal Origin realm.
"You wish to threaten me?" Alex asked. "With your pitiful cultivation base?"
"Pitiful?" the man asked. "You dare claim a son of House Xia pitiful?"
"I don't care who you are," Alex said. "Leave me alone or I will kill you."
"Hmph!" the man snickered. "A weakling like you thinks he can kill me? Do you think yourself safe because we are both part of the tournament? You must not have realized that there is no clause stopping me from killing you."
"I am aware," Alex said. "The same applies to you." As he said that, he placed the flower into the storage bag, and that angered the man.
"I see. You do not wish to hand me over the flower," the man said. "I understand. For that reason, you shall now hand over your entire storage bag."
The man moved very fast, flicking his wrist a hundred different times to create wind attacks that all flew toward Alex with the intent to kill him.
Alex felt the Dao of Wind in those attacks, all coming toward him. He had yet to learn any Dao within the Wood Dao, but since his Wood spiritual root was no longer bad, he could sense the energy a lot better.
He raised his hand outward, quickly creating the All Swirling Elemental Shield that blocked all of the wind attacks that came for him.
As the shield was active, he used the Infinite Yin Ice Spear Art to create large icicles made up of purely Yin Qi, flying directly at the man.
The man moved immediately, aided by another Dao of Wind that Alex didn't recognize immediately, but upon thinking about it a little more, he guessed that it was the Dao of Swiftness. It improved someone's speed quite a lot.
The man moved fast, but he could not hide from Alex's eyes just yet. He noticed the man appearing far to his left from where he opened his fan and attacked.
Two streams of wind appeared from around the man, turning into two birds of prey as they flew toward Alex.
Alex turned toward them and struck out with his palm. A yellow glowing palm flew out of his hand, large enough to strike both of the birds at once.
His attack not only destroyed the birds but also continued toward the man.
"What?" the man screamed in surprise, hastily moving away from the place. At the same time, Alex moved as well, following the man's movement with his eyes and running right behind him.
The man belatedly realized that Alex was close to him and panicked when he saw him fly close. He blew his fan again, creating a wave of air empowered by his Dao, but Alex focused his attention on the wind, forcing his Intent onto it next.
DISAPPEAR!!!
The violent winds immediately calmed, no longer a threat. 
"What?" the man couldn't tell what had happened at all. His attack was destroyed so very easily.
Alex arrived right next to him and delivered a punch to his face, aided by the Dao of Gravity to pull the man's head toward his fist right when it happened.
He struck the man in the face so hard that his jaws shattered upon impact, his teeth flying out. His eyes flew out of the sockets at the same time and his entire body flew along with it into the distance.
Alex finally stopped and flicked his hand once to get rid of the blood. He looked toward the man next, in the distance, whimpering without a lower jaw.
His tongue hung out from his missing jaw, seeming very grotesque. He slowly moved backward, still fearful of Alex.
Alex looked at him just a moment before turning back around and walking away. The man was just an alchemist with limited fighting skills. He had thought he could use his cultivation advantage to take what Alex had found, but he had been beaten for it instead.
Alex felt that was all the punishment he needed to give that man. There was no need to kill a potentially good Alchemist just because he got greedy once. If he was going to continue this, he would die on his own sooner or later.
With the flower, Alex now had 3 of the ingredients he needed, so he went on a quick search for anything else he could find before returning back to the city.
Now that he was done with this, he wouldn't come back to this place anymore. With all he had, he was certain he had enough to make it all the way to the other continent.
Even if he did not, he could just make some more pills and waste a day or two.
Even so, just less than a month after the tournament started, Alex was going to go to the other continent. He was quite happy thinking about that.
Of course, just because he was going to the other continent where ingredients were more easily found did not mean that he could find the ingredients he was looking for.
He was going to have an easier time there for sure, but he still needed to search everywhere. He wasn't sure where all of the ingredients were aside from very few specific ones, so he would still have to search for it all around.
Alex arrived at the city a while later with the sky nearly dark outside. He had thought of going to Jai Heiyun soon, but it seemed he would have to wait for tomorrow morning.
He returned to the courtyard and found Whisker and Momo still training outside. The two quickly greeted him.
"You returned sooner this time, Master," Momo said. 
"I realized there was nothing there in the valley, so I left early," Alex said. 
"You didn't find it again?" Whisker asked.
Alex could only shake his head in return. He looked around and then off in the distance. "Pearl isn't back yet?" he asked.
Whisker shook his head. "He's still out there," he should. "Is it time to leave? Should we go call him back?"
"Not yet. Let him do whatever he wants to," Alex said, turning back around. "We still have a few days we can waste around. I have to make these pills and sell them, see how much I make in return. If I have enough to teleport to the other continent, then we can leave."
"Okay," Whisker said. "Oh, you need to see Momo's advancement. She's been working diligently for the past 2 days and has become quite strong in the time you were gone."
"Is that so?" Alex turned toward Momo, who stood proudly. "Good job, Momo."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om