Chapter 389: Mapleleaf City (1/2)

It hadn't taken Alex very long to realize that understanding the composition and structure of pills was not an endeavor he could take on alone. He absolutely needed help from his master.

So, he started focusing his time on other things such as finding new pill recipes using energy alone. Most people would take ages to do this, but thanks to his Spiritual sense, Alex could easily recognize the strength and type of the energy and thus quite easily predict what would happen with the energy.

Still, the energy got harder and harder to predict as more and more energy was added on and he definitely broke quite a few cauldrons.

That didn't stop him from progressing in his journey as an alchemist very fast. By the time he would leave this formation, he would easily become a Common Heaven grade alchemist.

Alex fought with Pearl who was now in the 7th realm of the Organ tempering realm. That also meant that Alex himself was in the Organ Tempering realm as a body cultivator.

Once Pearl's cultivation realm increased, the pain that he had almost forgotten from the body cultivation also returned. The only reason that the pain had been manageable was that his body was in the same realm as Pearl. Once that changed, the intensity of the pain changed along with that.

His own cultivation had also increased by quite a lot in nearly 2 weeks after entering the Meridian realm. He had already reached the 5th realm of Meridian Tempering realm.

The only reason he wasn't higher than that was that he was completely out of monster cores to eat, and normal pills didn't give him a lot of Qi.

Still, after a few more days of making pills and eating them, he would likely enter the 6th realm of Meridian Tempering. At that point, he would be as strong as an expert in the 1st Realm of Mind Tempering.

The one thing that disappointed Alex more than it should have was that his training in sword did not give him the same amount of improvement as he would've wished for it too.

The training was good and all, but he needed actual opponents if he wanted to improve at using swords. As such he needed to wait until the formations opened for him to see visible improvement in swords now.

That wasn't to say that he was at it. In fact, he was most likely better than a lot of cultivators that used swords. However, when comparing that to actual cultivators that had lived their lives by their weapon and now had intent and Qi, he fell short.

”I need to go away for a few days, take care of yourself, okay buddy?” Alex said.

”Meow,” Pearl said as the word 'understand' sounded inside Alex's head. Pearl was getting close at using the correct words, he just needed a little more training.

”Goodbye,” Alex said and logged out.

He got out of his capsule and went to the kitchen early in the morning to eat. As usual, the girls were there already and they started eating their meal.

Once done, Alex and Hannah went back to their rooms to get ready. Today was the day Alex was going back to his home for the first time in over 3 months.

He quickly got ready and walked out with a bag. Hannah too got down from her room with a suitcase.

”Take care of the house while we're gone. We'll bring you back something from the farm on Sunday,” Hannah said and waved.