Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2251  A Choice

"What… what happened?" the fox asked, after having regained his senses. He looked at the scene in front of him, unable to wrap his head around it.

The man he had brought over was someone not from his group. Rather, it was someone he asked favors with in exchange for giving him a part of the earnings. Whitestorm always knew when to bring someone and given that this man had a beef with the hawk, he had brought him over. However, after it turned out that it was not the hawk that Pearl was working for, he only wanted to get back his money. This man was about to gain close to a million spirit stones by working together with him.

All he had to do was defeat a young beast in the Immortal Ascendant 9th realm cultivation base, and somehow the situation that resulted from the battle was him getting nearly killed.

He wasn't even conscious at the moment, barely breathing. The fix failed to understand just how such a situation could come about.

Alex was pretty much as much in shock as the fox. He understood the battle more than anyone else in there and even he couldn't understand how Pearl could defeat him so easily.

No, it wasn't just a simple defeat. He had destroyed the man in a single attack. For that to happen, Pearl had to release energy far beyond his cultivation base or Battle Power.

Had he used Bai Jingshen's protection at the last moment?

Pearl wavered a little while he stood, feeling a little dizzy and weak himself.

Alex swiftly arrived next to him, grabbing him and his spear. "You did well," he said. He did not understand what Pearl did, but he definitely did do it well.

"I'm… sorry, brother," Pearl said. "I… I couldn't win, so I had to…"

"What did you do?" Alex asked softly.

"My blood essence," Pearl said in the quietest voice he could. "I saw no other chance of winning, so I used one drop of it."

Alex sucked in cold evening air when he heard that. "You did what?" he asked, surprised.

"I'm sorry, brother. I know I shouldn't have but—"

"No," Alex said quickly. "You did what you had to. You don't have to apologize to me."

Pearl nodded slowly. "We'll talk about this afterward," Alex said and quickly sent Pearl back into his Beast Space before taking his spear and placing it into his storage bag.

He turned to meet the stunned fox and then looked toward the crater where the man remained half-dead. "You should give him a healing pill soon or he will actually die."

Alex's words seemed to awaken the men as they quickly rushed over to the man, feeding him a healing pill. Alex could see that the quality of the healing pill wasn't as good, but it did enough of its job for the man to slowly heal back to consciousness. He still had wounds all over his body, but they were minor wounds and would heal once he ate another simple pill or just took a few hours to cultivate.

Immortal bodies healed just that easily after all.

"Where is that guy?" the Fox asked.

"Pearl? He tired himself after that fight, so he is resting," Alex said. "Since the battle is over, you don't need him for anything else, do you?"

The fox shook his head.

"Now, please fill this bottle up with some bile of yours," Alex said, handing over a clean glass bottle to the fox.

The fox looked at the bottle and got angry for a second, but the oath forced him to follow the rules, so he had to do it no matter what.

He controlled the Qi inside of his own body, slowly dragging out his own bile from his throat, clad in Qi, and poured it into the bottle. He grew a little pale after doing that and wiped his lips. "That's enough?" he asked.

Alex took the bottle and weighed it slowly. There were more than 20 grams of bile there, and he only needed 13.

"More than enough," Alex said. "Thank you, and goodbye."

"Wait!" the dark-skinned man said quickly, stopping Alex just as he was about to fly away.

"What?" Alex asked.

"Do you think you can leave so easily?" the man asked, his fist tightly grabbing his own sword. The fox quickly tried to say something, but the dark-skinned man didn't let him. "Stay out of this," he threatened the fox before turning back toward Alex. "That man… no, beast from before cheated. A mere Immortal Ascendant realm cultivator should not beat me in a fair fight. He had an unfair advantage. I either demand a rematch or that you pay me back for the losses I suffered."

"What losses did you even suffer?" Alex asked. "If you want a healing pill, sure. I can give you one."

"Just a healing pill?" the man asked. "No, I fear we are way beyond that. You must pay back a million spirit stones, or I will kill you. You don't have the beast to protect you right now, do you?"

Alex paused for a moment, looking at the dark-skinned man with some deep thought. "Are you guys of the same mind too?" he asked the fox and the others.

The fox hesitated, not knowing what to say. "If you're not, step to the side. It appears this man isn't happy from tasting defeat once," Alex said.

The fox looked at the man for a single glance before saying, "Our deal here is done. We will be leaving." Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He turned around and flew away, leaving the man behind alone.

Alex looked at the man. "I will give you one last chance to leave if you want to," he said. "You are wounded, so this won't be a fair fight like you claim this will be anyway."

The man raised his sword. "If you won't give me what you owe me, then be ready to die by my blade!" the man shouted, swinging his sword before Alex could prepare for it.

The blinding bright slash arrived at Alex, cutting directly into him. Alex didn't even have a chance to put up a defensive technique or treasure.

The explosion from the attack destroyed a chunk of the land once again, and the dust covered the area for a long time. However, as the aura settled, the man saw Alex standing right where he was with his hand stretched outward.

It was as though he had just blocked the attack with nothing but a single hand.

And to the man's fear, there was not even a single scratch on that palm that faced him.

"You have made your choice," Alex said. "Now, don't regret it."

Alex punched, throwing out 4 golden spears that flew at the man almost instantaneously. The man used his defensive technique to try and block them, only to realize that he had underestimated the strength of those attacks.

Unlike Pearl, whose attacks were not stronger than Immortal Origin 6th realm until the very end, Alex's attacks were as strong as Immortal Origin's 9th realm, which was the man's cultivation base.