All Chapters of Alchemist In The Cultivator World: Chapter 281
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Chapter 281
Against my expectations, the Lord had not given me an answer immediately. Instead, both me and Yin had been moved to the waiting room where Yan Yun, Zhang and Flee were. Unable to rest despite my best efforts, I paced around the halls, feeling agitated.What I was bringing to the Lord wasn’t just a weapon, but the knowledge and understanding to create far more things further down the line as well. Given enough resources, just this knowledge alone could be enough to dethrone the Jade court, even with the power of the Divinities at their side. Gu-nukes were afterall, merely the start, created from alchemy and spirit herbs. If far larger and more potent quantities of Gu and Qi could be merged within a controlled device… there would be no telling what someone could do with that kind of ability.I paced harder as my thoughts continued to spiral.“Brother Jie, I don’t mean to presume what causes you such trouble. But you should calm down,” Zhang said, before turning his head sideways to whe
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Flee looked down at the rat, as the little critter squeaked, before glancing at me in an almost fearful expression. With a loud squeak, it jumped off of Flee’s hands and scuttled off.I sat waiting a few minutes, before with a squeak, the little rat walked back into the chamber, and climbed up to Flee’s hands. With a sequence of squeaks, it jumped up and down, and I looked at Flee for the translation.“It says there’s an old man, and the Lord talking. And some other things it didn’t understand, being put around the room,” Flee replied.I hummed in thought. “If only it could understand what they were talking about,” I said.Flee petted the little rat on its head, as it sat on her hand, eyes closed in comfort. “It said they were talking about danger.”“Danger?”Flee nodded. “Danger, risky. Something like that.”“Huh,” I murmured, before glancing down at the little rat. “Do you think you can train a bunch of rats to be able to do something like that?”“Maybe if we have enough food,” Flee
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The amount of work that had been put in for the tribulation surprised me. We’d been redirected to a different chamber, where Xian Yue, the moon spirit, was making some final adjustments to the most complicated array I’d ever seen. Multiple talismans with intricate characters, painted in ink brimming with Qi from crushed spirit stones dotted the chamber. Lines had been drawn on the ground with some more bowls filled with herbs and items full of Qi set in a way to channel the Qi in specific directions.Beside Xian Yue, I noticed Zhou Fang, the lord’s elder son, standing inside. The boy bowed to his father deeply, before giving me a slight nod of acknowledgement as we all walked into the chamber.One by one, all of us walked in, taking seats at the respective eight headed formation of the ward. The Lord took the central place, at the top of the formation, Yin, Zhang, Zhou Fang, Flee, the Old Man, Yan Yun and Tian Feng all following after him.I was directed to the centre, to a special si
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“It is us who fuel the eternal war. Cultivators, immortals, our empire. The false Path we walk is the source of the long lasting misery that exists, and takes so many lives. To have cut out Death from Life came at a price, a price that we now pay,” I said, my teeth clenched as I sensed the fury of the heavens boiling over.Three bolts of lightning struck at once, almost blasting through the ward. I did not stop. I could not stop.“I found this because my soul was split in two, and one half took on Gu, while the other, took on Qi. I split my core in two upon this revelation, one with Qi, and the other, Gu. It was the merging of these two that finally allowed me to obtain Chi, the source of energy that had formed all of creation.”Another bolt, and I felt the ward crack. A bolt of lightning entered the ward, reaching towards me, but the Lord raised his hand, as the bolt was directed away towards him instead. With a bright flash, the tribulation roared, furious at the act.“Continue,” th
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Liuxiang plucked at the strings of a Zither, feeling the harmonious tunes calm her spirit. She sat, hair let down, relaxing for the first time in a while. Ever since she had been elected as the heir to her grandmother, each day had passed in training, lessons, or some task or another, with far too many clan members trying to suck up to her, or gain her favour to be able to gain favour in her grandmother’s eye.Foolish, to think her grandmother would be swayed based on her opinion of all things. But even so, this was a task she had to deal with, and so she would.Her nails plucked the strings of the Zither, the melody playing serenely in her chamber when, with a sudden stroke, she found a string clipping her nail, as the string cut through skin and drew blood.Liuxiang pulled back her finger, regarding the bright red droplet of blood swelling upon it, as she saw the broken string of the Zither.Ominous. That had been a new Zither.“Perhaps the make had been faulty,” Liuxiang commented,
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A storm brewed through Taizhou, as Su Lin stood inside, watching the skies with unease. It's been years since something like this had brewed within the skies, like the world itself was furious, and even cultivators stood like mere mortals, watching nature sweep by and even all forces, and return them to their humble roots.“Bah. Those kids, spitting in the face of the heavens. Now they’ve well and truly incurred its wrath,” Granny Lang said, taking a puff of her smoking pipe before letting out the cloud as she walked up to stand next to Su Lin.“Do ya think they’ll be alright?” Su Lin asked, feeling concerned. He knew Yuan was smart… but this… this felt like playing with forces greater than human means.“He’ll be fine. A dragon must ride the stormy waves, and rise into the skies, only then will it truly ascend and reach where it must. This merely means that our boy has very high places to go, and the trials he must face will be greater than others.”“That isn’t very reassuring,” Su Li
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The Lord was moved to a different chamber to rest, with the Old Man following behind to look after him. There were still parts of me reeling from shock at the tremendous energy that had been at display in front of my eyes. In front of the Lord’s strength, I was barely a child, not even that, and a single blow from the heavens had brought him down to his knees.I’d known there would be a long way ahead, and the gap in strength would be vast between me and someone like him, yet it was an entirely different feeling to truly experience that difference, and realise that even he was far from the strongest people of this empire. And that, if I continue to walk my path, one day I may have to stand against them.As my thoughts continued t o churn, we’d been quickly moved out to a different chamber. None of us had talked much, as Elder Tian Feng had rushed around, working on the repair of the chamber we’d been in, and checking in on the manor. An odd, tense silence had filled the chamber as I’d
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I walk to a side chamber, letting the servants and members of the household manage the waves of destruction that had passed through. As I walked, I saw a couple bow to me with murmured gestures of ‘greetings my lord’ and it took me a moment to realise it was the insignia the Lord had given to me. I’d tied it at my waist without thinking much of it, but this made the realisation hit me quite hard that I was a Lord now. Not a proper lord, merely a baron whose child could not inherit the name. But still a noble nonetheless.It took me some time to adjust to the change in behaviour, and the new monicker of Lord Jie. Zhou Fang helped, guiding me on how to behave properly but the proud filled body language still raised my hackles. I couldn’t bear the stiffness. A part of me had wanted to stay behind and watch the work of cultivators, given what I had watched had been rather rapid. With earth walls quickly being raised and carved with Qi instantly. Magic truly made life so much easier.But I
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I nodded to Yan Yun. The sight on the girl’s face made me want to give her a hug. As I wrestled with the feeling I noted Yin holding Yan Yun’s hand, and the girl’s expression lightened a little.“I, too, am not certain. It… it is what my father asked you to do, Yuan. And a more filial child would’ve said yes But my Path… I do not know if I can do this.”“I understand. The path that we say, to take upon Gu alongside Qi, to unite the two within a single cycle is a Path that goes against this Empire. In some ways, it is akin to treason itself.”Zhou Fang looked up at me, before returning a nod. “All my life, I have been preparing to inherit my father’s position and become the lord of the seventh Peak. To walk this Path could mean forsaking that. I… don’t think I am ready to.”I nodded once more.“Very well. It is something to think upon, and I will always be there to guide and help you, if you change your mind,” I said, before glancing at Zhang. “I’ll start with you first, Zhang. Given t
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“Draw upon this death now, let it soak into you. Do not resist it. It’s merely a part of life, a part of the cycle that exists in our world. Let it forge your body, and harness it in your core.”The thunder clouds rumbled furiously once again, as golden lightning began to gather in the skies. Zhang continued, and a moment later, I sensed the Gu begin to flow into his body.The dark miasma flowed through his pathways, turning them black. I sensed the Qi burning him, dark oozing miasma rising from his body.He’d been through this before, but back then, there had barely been any Qi in his body, nothing but a hollow husk, soaked in spirit herbs to be incapable of feeling the pain.This time, there was nothing to protect him as the Gu flowed through his body, and poured into him.“Let it gather in your core, and accept it as a part of you,” I said, letting Chi soak my words and gather.Silverlight frowned, her petals glowing a bright light, as her Qi held itself back from vanquishing the G