Chapter 497 - Reason For Being Isolated (2/2)

”What if someone strong comes in with the wrong intentions?” Alex asked.

”Oh, yeah I forgot to say. Only those under the Saint realm can enter this place. Otherwise, they will need to wait for us to go pick them up,” Yao Jia said. ”Or at least I think that's what they do. I don't really know. After all, I was only born a few hundred years ago. There are still many things around this place that I don't know about.”

Alex nodded when he heard that, but then got confused. ”Wait, you are a few hundred years old?” he asked with a surprised expression.

”Yes,” she said nonchalantly. ”How old are you?”

”I will be 19 in a few months,” Alex said, still holding his surprise.

This time it was Yao Jia's turn to be surprised. ”Oh wow, then I am at least 400 years older than you. Haha,” she said.

”Don't most peak True realm beasts live up to around 1000 years old? For someone in your cultivation base which seems to be not that far into the True realm, you should have a life expectancy of around 700 years.”

”How are you still so young after nearly half of your life has gone by?” Alex asked. He wondered if she was using some techniques to make her voice sound younger or if she was changing the way she looked.

”Oh that, it's because while I am 400 years old, I've only lived for about 60 years. So I am very young physically,” she said.

This just confused Alex even more. ”You are 400 years old, but you've only lived for 60 years? What happened to the other 340 years? Did you hibernate or what?” he asked.

”Us cats don't hibernate silly,” Yao Jia said. ”It's just because of the time difference in the place I usually stay at.”

”Since most of the important parts of the palace are under a time dilation, while I was born 400 years ago, I've only lived for 60 years,” she said.

Alex's eyes went wide with surprise. ”You can change the speed of time here? How do you do that? Formations?” he asked.

”Of course. It's quite easy actually,” she said. ”Well… it's easy if you have the resources, but I don't know if you can find them in this continent.”

”I see,” Alex said. ”Do you know what the resources are?”

”Nope,” Yao Jia said. ”You will have to ask my father to ask the senior Zebra that made those formations.”

”Sigh, alright. We'll talk about those later,” Alex said. He turned towards the wall and followed it to the side with his eyes until he saw an open gate in the front.

”Can we go out there?” he asked.

”I'm afraid not,” Yao Jia said. ”You are both a guest and a prisoner here, so you will have to stay inside until the seniors can decide what to do with you.”

”Tsk, alright,” Alex said and went back to the meadows to sit on the ground. He didn't know what else to do, so he just sat around, waiting for Pearl to come out.

”You guys don't have any alchemy room right?” Alex asked.

”What's an alchemy room? We have some free rooms if you want to turn it to that,” she said.

”Alchemy room is a room with the formation in it that perpetually keeps a furnace active in it. It's also quite sturdy so that if a cauldron full of ingredients ever explodes, it can handle the explosion,” Alex explained.

”Hmm… we should be able to make one,” Yao Jia said. ”Although, you will have to ask my father later on.”

”Okay,” Alex said. ”At least I can distract myself that way.”

He planned on practicing Alchemy and formation for the little time he was stuck around here. He wondered what other things he could do in the meantime and cultivating was the only answer he got from himself.

'Although that will require many high-level monster core, and I don't have that many,' he thought. 'How will I get them?'

”Can I ask you a question? I don't know how rude this question is though,” Alex said.

”Uhh… you can ask it. I will try not to get offended if it is in fact very rude,” she said.

”There must be quite a lot of deaths happening around here, right?” he asked. ”What do you do with the monster core of the beasts that die?”

”Well, if it's a spoil of victory, we let the winner take it. If it's not, then the one who finds it keeps it,” Yao Jia said. ”Why do you ask?”

”Umm… you see, I am in need of a few monster cores myself, and was wondering if there was a way to get them around here,” Alex said.