Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Alex watched the Elder die from start to finish. He had every instinct in him telling him to run now that he had the chance, but seeing the killer of his friend die before him was not a moment he wanted to skip out on.

He felt a cathartic sense of relief when he saw her head fly off and no soul escape from her body. But, he wasn't sure if that necessarily meant that she was truly dead.

When a Saint died, his soul came out of his body disoriented, not knowing what was happening to it. Most of the time, the intelligence in that soul was a simple one, meant to only save the soul in the moment when the body had died.

Those sorts of souls never knew that danger could be lurking outside and that they shouldn't come out.

However, Immortal souls were much more intelligent. Not only were they intelligent, but they also held memories and personalities, which made them no different than the person they were before, just without a body.

These souls were quite sneaky and could even sometimes keep hiding in a body.

Now, the body and soul of an Immortal were connected, and one reflected the other, so it was likely that the First Elder truly was dead. But Alex didn't want to take any chances with that. He would only be relieved when he knew for certain that she was dead.

Alex approached the dead elder while Fang Yuxie calmed herself down. Before he arrived close to her, however, Fang Yuxie quickly spoke up.

"Don't go too close. The poison in her body is strong," she said.

"No worries," Alex said as he leaned down upon the headless corpse of the woman. "I can handle poison alright."

"Oh!" Fang Yuxie finally remembered. "Right, she said something about you having a body that was immune to most poison. You can handle this sort of poison too?"

"I'm sure I can," Alex said as he began waving his hand around the old woman's corpse.

Fang Yuxie frowned. "What are you trying to do?" she asked.

"Searching for her soul. Making sure she is dead," Alex said.

"She is," the woman replied. "That poison I slipped into her body destroys both body and soul. Nothing of her remains in there anymore."

"I see. Makes sense too. I can't sense anything from her at all," he said. But he continued waving his hand around her body until he found what he was looking for.

"We can't just leave her here like this," Alex said, thinking of what he could do.

"If it's burial you're talking about, I suggest you don't. Or else I'll be forced to fight you too," she said.

"Burial?" Alex asked, looking back at the girl with a confused look on his face. "Do I look like I give a damn what happens to this woman's corpse? Let me remind you how much of a torture she put me through."

"Oh… right," she said. "Then what do you want with her body?"

"He storage bags, I can't find anything," Alex said. "She must have everything of hers stored in her Soul Space."

"Yeah, makes sense," Fang Yuxie said. "What about it?"

"Well, why are we leaving it here?" Alex asked. "We should take the treasures with us."

The girl chuckled. "Take the treasures? Are you serious?" she asked. "And how are we supposed to find a treasure to break through her Soul Space? Don't tell me you have one."

"I might," Alex said and brought out Midnight into his hand. He filled Midnight with the aura of Space, the somewhat strange aura that was local to this realm.

Then, he stabbed the old woman directly where her heart was.

Midnight slipped through space, striking at a side of the giant Soul Space barrier, immediately cutting an opening into it. As soon as he did that, the entire Soul Space collapsed in a matter of seconds, spewing out a large amount of contents that were inside of that Soul Space.

Everything from pills and talismans to spirit stones was sprayed in an area around them.

"Holy…" Fang Yuxie instantly moved, running away from both Alex and the corpse. She wanted to stay as far away from the treasures as possible.

Alex turned around, confused. "What?" he asked, standing in the midst of a thousand different treasures.

"Poison!" the girl shouted from the distance. "She had a lot of poisons, some quite dangerous. Did any of it spill?"

Alex's eyes widened slightly and he looked around at the items that fell. He quickly located the poisons, all in perfectly contained vials. "It hasn't spilled," he answered her. "Everything is in place."

"Okay!" the girl said. "Gather it up and bring it away. Let us leave before the Blue Silk sect people come."

Alex nodded quickly. He gathered everything he could get his hands on and ran away from the place.

He brought out his Immortal ship from his Soul Space when he had the chance and Fang Yuxie came onto it without even asking for permission. He looked back at her with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"You're coming with me?" he asked.

"I don't have a ship, and you do," she said. "So take me with you. Besides, I don't know what to do anymore now that my revenge is over."

Alex gave a thoughtful look. "What about joining the Blue Silk sect when they come?" he asked.

"Why are you running away then?" she asked him. "Do you not want to join it?"

Alex didn't answer.

"I'm the first-ranking disciple. They won't believe me when I tell them that I wasn't aware of this being a demonic sect. They will trust me even less when I tell them that all I wanted was to kill my master," she said.

"Elder Lan told me I would have to go through a lot of hassle if I remained. He told me to leave," Alex replied.

"Sounds like a wise advice," she said. "Let us get the hell away from here."