All Chapters of Alchemist In The Cultivator World: Chapter 441
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Chapter 439
The man stood at the entrance for a moment. He could storm out here, and end the topic, thinking I was bluffing. But on the sliver of the chance that I wasn’t… and that sliver would be enough.I didn’t smile when the elder walked back and sat down, simply taking another sip from my tea.“What did you sell to the five families?” the man asked, after a few moments.“Divine texts. Five of them. One to each of the families,” I replied.The man looked at me, and then began to laugh. “What a farce, we shouldn’t have bothered,” he said, shaking his head.“I know you don’t believe me. But perhaps you’ll believe things when you see this,” I said, reaching into my chest pocket before I pulled out a single page and set it onto the table. The words on it shimmered with power. Not as potent as my own books. But enough.The elder turned dead silent.I didn’t stop, taking one out from each of the five books, a perfect replica, as I began to put them down. The pages began to resonate, the Qi in the a
Chapter 440
I sat in my chamber, at my desk, drawing out plans for the future. The hours in the day were no longer enough, and each passing moment I grew more tempted to learn how to split myself up into multiple fragments again just to be able to keep up with work.That was likely a worthwhile technique to learn, but unfortunately, the time that would take was something I simply didn’t have at the moment. There was infrastructure to set up for all the plans I’d made, logistics to be handled, people to be trained. The demand for craftsmen was going to rapidly rise, and their prices would rise accordingly. I needed to work to make sure I didn’t inadvertently collapse the economy by trying to do too many things at once.Somehow, having money resulted in more money being spent. I was spending thousands of gold pieces every day, and the amount sometimes horrified me to look at. But I knew all of it was necessary, and I didn’t hold any actual ties to the money itself. Money was merely untapped potenti
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Liuxiang shook her head. Taking her pin, she gathered her hair, quickly setting it up in a simple tie as she rearranged it once more. I took the moment to just look at her for a moment. She felt different now, which had already been true in our brief meeting back on the seventh peak, but especially so here.It took me a moment to realize why.She wore distinctly more feminine clothes now. Liuxiang had always been rather androgynous, but now she wore clearly feminine clothes. Red earrings hung from her ears and her hair was tied in a clearly womanly fashion.“You’ve changed,” I said, watching as Liuxiang completed arranging her hair.“How so?” Liuxiang asked.“Well, you’re wearing a lot more feminine clothes now for one.”“Ah, grandmother insisted that we do. Our clan doesn’t particularly care about gender norms as much as the rest of the empire does, but she wants us to wear more appropriate clothing given our current alignment to appear more pleasing. She said it was a waste to not u
Chapter 442
I stood in front of the Lord, watching him look at the invitation with a frown on his face. Apparently getting an invitation from a Divinity directly was an even bigger deal than I’d anticipated, despite being told as much by Zhi Zhu.“We knew the day would come soon with how you have been progressing, but it is still hard to believe it when seeing it in front of our eyes,” the Lord said, looking up at me. “Just to explain, we ourselves have never been invited by any of the Divinities, and getting an invitation like that would be a great honor even for us,” the Lord said.I bowed my head. “I understand my lord. And I’ll appreciate all the help I can get regarding etiquette. I’m afraid I do not know the customs of the court.”“I doubt any of that matters, especially with the Shie. Divinities are not the Jade court. Customs… such things depend on who you are meeting entirely, and the Shie have never been known for being too worried about such things, or the customs of the jade court and
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The preparations were rather simple. I sat in the Lord’s official carriage which he had very kindly lent to me for my visit. The old man sat with me, as I brought him along for the visit at the Lord’s suggestion and then without too much fanfare, we were off.I sat next to the old man, feeling a little awkward given the conversation I had just had with the Lord. I contemplated if now was the time to ask some questions that had been on my mind for a long time now, but every time I thought of asking, something held me back.“What’s the matter, Yuan?” The old man asked, taking note of my expression. “If you’re nervous then you need not be. It is not often one meets a Divinity, but they, too, are people. You have nothing to be worried about,” the old man said.I think only the old man could’ve said something like the Divinity were also people and had me not snort at his words. I gave him a nod, not correcting his assumption. It was best to keep this talk for later.“Not to mention…” the o
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“Shen… Ming?” The divinity spoke, in a surprised voice.I kept my bowed head, watching the old man look at the divinity. “It is indeed me, Zhuihu. I’m glad to see you are doing well.”My eyes widened in surprise as the old man referred to the woman with her name… and I looked at Liuxiang who similarly looked to be shocked.Just what was going on?The Shie matriarch stood up, walking closer and I could feel her immense aura even while she kept it mostly under control and away from me. Her eyes were stuck on the old man.“You’ve returned?” She asked, glancing sideways at me. “So he’s your doing then?”Just the brief glance the woman gave me felt like someone had thrown a boulder on my back. “You can raise your head,” she added, and I finally stood straight, hiding a sigh of relief.“No, we’re not. Merely here to finish what we couldn’t last time,” old man replied, before glancing at me. “And this boy has done everything himself. We merely gave him some guidance onto a new Path.”The Shi
Chapter 445
I looked around myself in astonishment. I stood in a dark world, without a sky or even a ground, but a forest somehow surrounded me on all sides, with fog blurring my sight and not allowing me to see anything.The sounds of rustling leaves as something moved around me were the only thing I heard around myself besides the sound of my own breath and the beating of my heart.Was this the matriarch’s spirit? No- no this place was real. My thoughts and mind had little sway or influence in this place. It was a part of the world, overlapping on the actual world around me. Somehow, I can tell this. The real physical and tangible nature of this place and the stability it had only served to unnerve me even further.Shadows moved around me, and I turned, memories of the assassin returning. But… this was different. And in many ways, worse. I could sense the poison lurking in the air, the leaves with hidden thorns ready to prick you and the little creatures waiting patiently for their chance to st
Chapter 446
My hands clutched its scales, fingers digging in as Chi channeled to all my limbs for every ounce of strength. I could feel my bones creaking under the pressure. Letting fires rise at my hands, I began to burn the snake’s body as it thrashed around, eventually flinging me off. I flew across the domain, crashing into branches before falling down. I got up swiftly, dodging the angered snake’s strike, before turning back around.Calling upon the first law, I let Chi split into Qi and Gu in two balls of energy that formed around my two fists. Bringing them together, I let the energies collide with one another.“First Law: Duality” I echoed with all the power of my spirit, as the two halves met and destruction manifested into the world.The beam of energy flew across the space, piercing the serpent and injuring it as the giant snake shrieked. Its scales sizzled and charred, a chunk of its body burned. The space around my fists cracked for a moment, light peeking through, but before I could
Chapter 447
The strength had been enough to tear a chunk out of the matriarch’s domain. But it was shrinking and would be gone in the blink of an eye. I grabbed the edges of space itself, Chi coursing through my hands as I tore the gap, cracking them wider till I could fit through, and then I stumbled out.The very moment I did, all my strength faded, Harmony disrupting itself as I collapsed onto the ground. I coughed, trying to gather myself when the matriarch moved in close instantly, grabbing my robes as she pulled me up and looked me in the eye.“How do you have a Divine Beast.”I had never seen a goddess, much less an enraged one, but now I knew what something like that might look like.The matriarch’s eyes glowed with the power of a Divinity, and I could feel myself crumbling away under her strength.“Grandmother—”“SPEAK!”The command was absolute, and yet, I knew I could resist it. I had no reason to, and it would’ve helped me to speak, but I did not like being grabbed by the collar. I ga
Chapter 448
I sat in the carriage as we made our way back to the Lord’s manner. That has certainly been one hell of a meeting, with despite the rough nature of it the practice had gotten with a Divinity’s domain had certainly been useful. But I no longer had an excuse left to not talk about the things that I had been meaning to talk about with the old man. I sat there for a long moment hesitating over how I should ask about his past, the really was just trying to delay having to bring it up as much as I could. Taking a breath, I looked up at him and decided to just go for it.“How do you know the Shie matriarch?” I asked the old man, who looked back at me with mild surprise.“I used to know her mother,” the old man replied.“The previous matriarch and Divinity?” I asked, raising my eyebrow. “Wasn’t she super important and also really really old?”“She was, this old man was much younger back then when he had first met the woman. She had been amused by my youthful arrogance and had tested me. I had