All Chapters of Alchemist In The Cultivator World: Chapter 531
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Chapter 531
In some manner of truth he had been. Yuan had simply… outgrown Zhou Fang. That boy would outgrow this entire empire in a decade if simply left to his own devices, those were not reasonable expectations to have of someone and yet the boy did not see it that way and it weighed on him.He could not leave his son behind like that, nor did he have any intention to do so. He was not prepared to die, he had not made his peace with it.And yet, he was ready to stand till his last breath on this peak should it come to that, because it was his path to protect this empire and he had sworn his life on it, even if it meant abandoning things he could not justify abandoning to himself. And so the flame burned in his soul, as Lord Zhou reached within himself, into a part of himself he had not recalled in a long time.The storage ring on his fingers unlocked with a pulse of Qi as a blade appeared in his hand. A jian. It was a gift from his father, and he drew it in front of him with intention as he st
Chapter 532
Lord Zhou had never hated the Heavens. The Heavens simply were, they were all that which governed over the world, the unseen force that guided the hand of life and brought insights and strength to those who sought to pursue its depths. And yet… in this moment he could not help but hate them a little.Heavenly Qi poured into him, pushing him onto a pedestal that was not truly his to take. He felt the power seeping into his core, filling his soul to the brim and more kept appearing, yet there was no time to consciously consolidate any of it. Even if he survived this encounter, his cultivation would be crippled from the strain of the mantle the heaven sought to put upon his shoulders.And yet, he grasped his blade, letting his Qi seep out. The glint of the sun shone on its edge. He had a peculiar Qi. Light Qi. Or more rightfully, solar Qi. It was not a common element to attune oneself too, but he felt it blazing inside of him now with the strength of the sun.The heavens roared above, tr
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The demon shot forward, blade of rust swinging once more. Lord Zhou let solar Qi and heavenly Qi gather around him, a blinding flash of light gathering as he shot it towards the demon.The beast laughed as the beam burned its body, which then quickly began to repair itself. The demon roared, power surging as the world around them began to crumble. Lord Zhou shot forward, body blazing with light as Qi flowed into him with like a tsunami that would not be barred by anything, he moved light, moving in an instant as his blade struck, cutting through the demon, blasting him backwards as the blade of light cut the dark domain open. The demon cackled, dark blood gushing from its body as it slammed but Lord Zhou did not relent, shooting after the creature immediately.He continued to cycle his Chi. His domain whirred on the horizon, power surging. His aura was focused on the beast and he let the cold flame within him blossom. Surging rage rose within him as he let it all expand outwards into
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Lord Zhou tried to gather his power, the heavens roared, sending down a terrible strike upon the creature but he simple roared, and Lord Zhou found his body crumbling.His core began to be drained and no matter how much Qi the heavens flooded him with, his body simply was at its limit. Standing toe to toe with this creature had been all he could’ve done and now the vessel was breaking. His skin cracked, his body breaking, breath struck as the terrible creature snarled.Lord Zhou reached out clawing the dirt, finding only dust and ask in his fingers. A terribly hot searing blade pressed against his soul, and he felt a will imposing itself against his soul.“Accept,” the will spoke and for a moment, Lord Zhou found himself staring in awe at the vague silhouette of the very heavens as his world was drowned out.He reached out towards it, towards that beacon of power, with it, he could fight back, with it, he had a chance to win, to end this terrible creature.And yet, his hand stilled. H
Chapter 535
Something was wrong. I could feel it as a deep certainty down in my very bones. Something was very very wrong and I’d not been able to shake the feeling ever since the connection to the fourth peak had been stopped. The jade slips had cracked and stopped working all of a sudden, which was concerning enough as it is, but then something had changed with the Divine Tree itself.I’d felt it more than seen it, the vast presence that had flared for but a moment over the entire world, and I’d found myself unable to understand just what I was seeing but the cycle itself had shifted, I’d felt a piece of it changing, and I did not understand what it meant.And so now I paced in my own chamber to hear some news, anything, to explain just what was happening.Mercifully, I did not have to wait forever as I sensed Qiao Ying heading my way. I did not way, opening the door as the man looked at me in surprise.“Did you hear anything?” I asked the man in a rush.Qiao Ying recovered quickly, and bowed.
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The Huo patriarch continued as I settled my thoughts. “From what we understand, there are three other divinities that still remain. And then there is Yang Shen himself. It is all but inevitable for one of the seven peaks to fall with Divinities on the other side. They could strike any one of them, or combine their strengths to repeat another strike on the fourth peak and there would be little we would be able to do. Doing that would mean certain loss, and a slow and terrible one.”“Which is why, we think it will be best to reshape the dynamics of the battle. The fourth peak has all but fallen, and so, we’re not going to hold onto a front we cannot truly hold. The lords will defend their peaks, the fourth lord will retreat and we’ll gather our forces around Azure City and let the demons find a way to the capital on our terms, and face them in battle there,” the Shie Matriarch finished.I simply listened quietly, thinking over everything. I could see the logic, I had a lot of questions
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I tried to reason myself into it, tried to think of it in a different light. This place would be fine. My influence and with everything else, they’d be able to hold on. With me in the capital, there was nothing of significance that could be gained by attacking the seventh peak. Except to make me angrier, but even with that, the weapons I’d left behind, the deferences available to me and everything… but I couldn’t. I just couldn’t.I shook my head. “No, no I can’t do that. Don’t try to convince me, you won’t. I won’t abandon them and just hope that the demons do not attack any of the other peaks. These are demons. Do you think they will simply walk past if they saw that they could get away with it? No, this will ruin the empire, ruin the majority of it. Even if most people retreat into the Azure city, there’s only so much time and space to do that, and only so many people that can be kept safe like this. No, this is not the the answer. There has to be a better way,” I said, looking at
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I’d just subconsciously resisted it, and not noticed the weight of it. Normally when in the presence of someone powerful, I’d feel it, like a mountain sitting on my shoulders, making me submit, but… this almost felt light. Against the weight of two divine beasts… I felt like my spirit was simply heavier than theirs. Like there was this intangible mass inside of me that determined the weight of my own aura and spirit and it was simply larger than the Divinities.Elder Tian Feng smiled. “There are many such things you do not know, and that is fine. Not all things have to be named, and set within known standards and convictions. Your lack of knowledge is partly why you’re capable of performing feats of miracles without ever batting an eye. The detachment from the world of cultivation that you’ve maintained has let you do things from a perspective few others can match and this allows you to achieve breakthroughs hardly anyone else could hope to match. But, it also means you don’t understa
Chapter 539
I followed behind Elder Tian Feng, as we walked out of the chamber he’d been in. It took me a little while to realize where I was, since I had only really arrived here once before.“We’re in the royal palace?” I asked, surprised that this was where I’d arrived out of all the other places.“Indeed. Things have been changing over here. But more importantly, the thing you must do, the thing you must obtain, really, is here,” Elder Tian Feng said.I followed behind him as we began to walk down stairs. The usual ornate displays quickly began to fade as the palace walls soon became unpolished stone that looked like it had been created nearly a thousand years ago. The further we went, the thicker the Qi in the air got, and the darker the world around me got. Which also let me know that I barely needed any light to see now, just another one of those things that had been caused by my rapid surge in power and recent brush with divinity that I still wasn’t so used to.The stairs continued to des
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The realization shocked me, and the world pulsed around me, a flash of Qi flowing around my body to let me know that I’d touched upon something just now.Elder Tian Feng looked at me and smiled. “And so you see the hand of fate. It is not the predetermined thing we think of it as, but rather the nudges that guide the path within this seemingly infinite and ever changing web of reality.”I nodded, not truly grasping the weight of any of that. But if this was my fate because of my nature and the path I had chosen… I glanced towards Elder Tian Feng.“Had you known?” I asked him.“Of course not,” he replied, snorting as if such a ridiculous thing might even be possible. “I had a premonition about certain things and I could sense the hand of fate a little better than most, but that is all. My interferences… they were not intention, merely another nudge under the guiding hand of the forces that brought you here,” he said, and I paused.The forces that brought me here. I had never truly addr