Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2328  A Simple Lacking

Alex chose one of the many ideas of which energy he should use and tried to implement it.

To do so, he needed to understand the energy at its base level and replicate it. Since the energy he was going to be was mostly Fire, with True Fire Dao, Alex was more or less certain it would be easier.

He produced a regular fire aura then slowly started tweaking it to get closer to the result he needed. He added some energy here and then took out some there. He lowered the Metal energy while improving on Wood energy at the same time.

With the Dao of Seven-Elemental Interaction, manipulating the aura of the energy was a much easier task than he previously anticipated. However, even as he tried to do his best to reach the final desired point, Alex simply couldn't. He tried and tried, but he failed each time. Even without knowing why he was failing, he knew that he was.

The energy just wasn't reaching the final stage for some reason. He tried doing it the entire night, even going so far as to change the energy he wanted just in case one wasn't working.

But by the end, it was clear to him that it wasn't going to work.

Alex frowned.

"That should have worked. It was a good idea, wasn't it? Why didn't it work?" he asked.

"I don't even know what you're trying to do, brother," Whisker said, answering from atop his shoulder. He had appeared out during the night and had been watching for some time.

Alex sighed. "Something is missing and I can't place my finger on it," he said.

"Take a break, brother. Let your mind have some rest and the answer will come to you," Whisker advised.

Alex nodded and reclined back onto the wall as he closed his eyes. For a moment, he didn't think anything, letting the moment settle on him. He opened his eyes a bit later and turned toward Pearl. "Did you find it?" he asked.

"It was difficult, but I did. Your Soul Space is too vast, brother," Whisker said as something came out from him. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

A Cauldron.

Alex pulled the cauldron toward him and looked inside. Inside was a pile of Spiritual roots that he had kept neatly in ranks based on their element. He found the one for water and pulled it out before letting Whisker take the rest of it back into his Soul Space.

 "Thank god you could help me bring these out," Alex said. "In the unlikely case that what I'm doing doesn't work, I'll have to transplant these directly into the old man."

"You're working with a beast, right? Will a human Spiritual root work on beasts?" Whisker asked. "It works. It's attached a little differently to their Beast Core when they are in the human form, but it's similar enough that I can attach it without an issue."

Alex felt the cool spiritual root in his hand that was only cold because it was kept in a place where it wasn't allowed to rot. It wasn't the cold that came from the Dao of Ice that was directly ingrained into the other spiritual root.

"This is good," Alex said. "I now have a much firmer understanding of what the end result is that I must reach."

He listed down the ingredients he thought he would need soon enough. As he did, he noticed something among them and retried making the energy with his own Qi.

Once again, he started broader and moved in with the aura to reach the point that he had envisioned. Once again, he failed to reach that point. "It didn't work?" Whisker asked.

"No," Alex said, but he didn't seem sad anymore. He smiled as he knew the issue. "I lack the ability to fine-tune my Wood aura to the level that is needed for what I need to do."

"What does that mean?" Whisker asked.

"Well, in simple terms. I need Dao of Wood. But I don't have that so I need to give up on trying this method," Alex said. "Instead, I need to make the pill and then copy that aura. My technique should be able to copy and reproduce that aura without any mistake instead of me directly creating it from scratch."

Whisker slowly nodded, seemingly trying to gain more knowledge from Alex while he could listen.

When the morning rolled around, Alex left his place and went to find the place where he could find all of the different ingredients. After much searching, he found all of the ingredients. Some needed substitution, but it was easy for him to know what he needed to get.

After finding the ingredients, Ale quickly made a simple pill. He used his Divine Elemental Accord to copy the energy from that pill, and now he could easily reproduce it any time he wanted.

As he used the technique, the energy flowed out of his body. He was very careful not to bring out the energy too strongly or there would be a high chance of damaging the Spiritual root directly.

Alex slowly let the energy flow into the Spiritual root, affecting it. He could feel a sort of pushback on him from the Spiritual root's aura as the energy he provided subdued the aura of the Spiritual root.

Alex slowly stopped providing the energy and waited for a moment for the energy in the Spiritual root to equalize. After enough time passed, he checked the new aura in the changed Spiritual root.

While the spiritual root had changed, it was hard to say that it was for the better. At the very least, it came nowhere near to being close to the Water Spiritual root that Whisker had brought for him.

With the two side by side, Alex could see quite a bit of the issue.

"I see," Alex said as he felt the difference in aura. He could see what ingredient he had used wrong immediately. "That narrows things down a lot. Soon enough, I should be able to reach my goals."