Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 3408: Spilling the Truth

"I seem to suddenly have many things to discuss with my disciple in private, Soulmother. Would you mind leaving us?" Bladedance asked.

The Beast God nodded and left without a second word.

Alex couldn’t help but be a little surprised to see how quickly the Beast God accepted such a request in her own house, being made to leave. But she was in the presence of a Celestial, so it made sense.

Once Flamestride went along with her, Bladedance turned toward Scarlet.

"Is she a friend or..."

"My bonded beasts. The phoenix," Alex explained.

"It’s an honor to meet you, senior," Scarlet said with a bow. "I’m Scarlet."

Bladedance nodded. "We’ll talk later. Can you put them all away for now?"

Alex nodded, taking all three into his Soul Space, leaving just him and Bladedance in the room. With a flick of her fingers, Bladedance closed the windows and doors to the room, before creating an invisible wall around them that cut off all senses from outside.

"Alright. She’s gone. Explain what happened in just 2 decades," Bladedance said, finding it hard to imagine what could happen in such a small time. "Don’t leave anything out."

Alex took a deep breath and nodded. "Do you know about the two True gods?" he asked. "The Sun God and the Moon Goddess."

Bladedance looked away in thought before slowly nodding. "I do know about them."

"My change has to do with the Sun God," Alex said, beginning to explain everything that had happened to him. He didn’t keep anything from Bladedance, even telling her about his meeting with Shumi, who then went on to become the Moon Goddess.

He explained his own situation and how he had nearly lost himself to the Sun God, including the fact that he had now sealed the Sun God in his own Spiritual sea.

From there, he explained how he was nearly out of the new energy, and ended up gaining some new ones when he showed proof of his godhood to the beasts.

Once Alex finished explaining, he watched Bladedance’s face go through multiple expressions, moving from shock to surprise to excitement to pure confusion.

To begin with, the fact that her disciple had nearly become a true God had left her speechless. What more, he had nearly died in the process too.

While he had failed there, he had still succeeded in becoming a Half-God from the sound of it.

"Where is this Moon Goddess?" Bladedance asked without much hope for an answer she would like.

"Back in the Demon realm," Alex said. "She wasn’t going to come here."

"I can imagine. A True God, though? Are you sure?"

"Quite certain," Alex said. "She’s just starting so she doesn’t have much energy, but she should be gathering quite a bit."

"And you failed to gather any."

Alex shrugged. "Until 3 days ago, yes. I then started gathering some, but its obviously different from what it should be. I don’t have enough to do any tests yet, but it feels weaker and more restrictive."

Bladedance looked down. "I’ve definitely never heard of any of the Half-Gods giving someone else a physique, or forming a bond without using the soul, so its most definitely weaker."

"What can a Half-God do with their energy then?" Alex asked.

"It’s mostly a substitute for Qi as far as I’m aware, albeit it is a lot more powerful than Qi, and has not as many... rules. They can use it to heal others with a thought, to attack them, to create intricate formations, and such. The seal that was on you, that was the Storm God using his Half-God powers too."

Alex narrowed his eyes, thinking about the seal. The seal was obviously quite powerful, but more than that, it had something that seemed unfair at the time.

The seal was infinitely regenerating, making it impossible for a weaker him to get rid of it a bit at a time. He needed to go after it all at once as a result.

"So the Storm God didn’t use some powerful technique to do that?" Alex asked. "It was just the unique power?"

"I would guess so," Bladedance said. "Again, I don’t precisely know much about being a Half-God, other than two very important requirements that I thought were absolute."

Alex looked at her, waiting for her to continue.

"First, you must be strongest cultivator of an element with no clear competition in sight," she explained. "The Sky God is the master of Wind and Space elements, the Storm God is the master of the Lightning element, the Golden God is the master of metal element; that sort."

"Secondly, you need to be in the Celestial realm."

Alex blinked. "I’m not in the Celestial realm."

Bladedance shrugged. "Neither are you a master of an element," she said. "So I am clearly mistaken on both regard. There must be some nuance to the actual requirements."

"Or... those requirements don’t matter for me," Alex said. "Since I started as the vessel of the True God and failed."

Bladedance’s eyes brightened. "You failed to be a True God, but the change was enough to make you a Half-God? That sounds right."

Alex nodded. "Do you think it has anything to do with people praying to you?" he asked. "My thing started after people started believing me to be the Sun God after all."

"I can’t discount that," Bladedance said. "That may also be the case. Truth be told, the Half-Gods do have a much larger cult than the other gods, so you may be correct. But I cannot say for certain that anything is the truth until we either read up on it from Moonspirit’s records, or ask Newheaven directly."

Alex nodded. "That’s a few years away," he said, relaxing a little. "Oh right, did you change the Beast God’s mind about me?"

"Soulmother? No, I had to do nothing. Her mind was already changed since a long time ago," Bladedance said.

"Really?" Alex asked in surprise. "Why?"

"Because of who she thinks you are," Bladedance said with an amusing smile on her face.

"Who am I?" Alex asked.

"The Savior."