Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 540 - Father's Name

Alex's eyes were wide open at the moment. He looked at his master with a look of confusion and surprise. 

"Master, how do you know my name?" he asked.

"Now's not the time. Run away," Ma Rong said. As she dashed forward. She started fighting with the old man who couldn't really fight against her directly, so he started kiting her. 

He would attack her a little and run away before attacking her again. He kept her from getting too close to him as it would be near impossible to fight her with how strong she was.

'Dammit! We have practically the same cultivation base, and yet thanks to her superior body constitution, I am being forced to take the coward's role in the fight,' he thought. 

He looked to the side and saw Wen Cheng grabbing Alex.

"Yu Ming, let's go. That old man seems to be here for you. We need to leave while Ma Rong is holding him off," Wen Cheng said.

He knew he couldn't really add much to the fight unless Ma Rong dropped her aura, in which case, she would likely get very injured.

The best way to help her was to not help her right now.

Alex was stubborn, but he understood it as well. He wanted answers as to why Ma Rong knew his name that he had never spoken in the game, not even by mistake, but that could wait until she defeated the old man.

"We need to leave," Wen Cheng turned to the 2nd and 3rd Elders too, who started running towards Alex to protect him.

Seeing Wen Cheng hold Alex to take him away, the old man started getting restless. He was here for Alex and if he was taken away, all the planning he did for the last 6 months, all the bandits he had to kill to make them accept the offer. It would've all been in vain.

He wasn't going to let that happen. He couldn't let that happen. It would seem that he needed to use his hidden knife right now. 

"Stop him from getting away!" the old man cried out. 

Suddenly, of the two pairs of legs that were running towards Alex, one of them sped up.

Wen Cheng reacted to the change and brought out his sword, but he was a little too late. A bright light flashed right where he was and the sword he was holding fell to the ground.

Two streams of blood gushed out of Wen Cheng. Both of which came from either of his arms. He looked down to see that his right arm and 2 of his 5 fingers on his left hand had been severed off.

"Wha-?" he looked dumbfounded as the reality of what had just happened didn't settle in his mind immediately. 

The attacker turned around and went for Wen Cheng again, but the other person arrived just in time and stopped the person's sword mere inches from Wen Cheng's neck.

Alex watched the Second and Third elder clash with a pale face that was stunned.

Ma Rong noticed what had happened, and she too had to stop fighting with the old man to look back.

The Second Elder gritted his teeth with a face full of anger and shouted, "SuSu! What the hell are you doing?"

The third elder moved a little back and got into a stance. "Go away dear, you don't have to fight me," she said.

"Answer me, SuSu! What are you doing? Where are you attacking sect leader Wen?" the Second Elder pointed his sword towards his wife as he screamed in anger.

"What do you mean?" the third elder asked as if she had done nothing wrong. Her left hand went behind her back as she pulled out a black mask. "It is my responsibility as a daughter to obey my father, isn't it?"

All 4 of them watched as the third elder put on the mask in horror as they realized what was happening. 

They were betrayed.

"Your… father?" the Second Elder was stupefied. The revelation rang in his ears like a thunderclap.

"You… you told me your parents died of a disease when you were little. How can he be your father?" the second elder asked.

"Easy," the third elder said. "I lied."

"You lied?" Anger flared back in his eyes. "You lied all this time? What's was your purpose in getting close to me?" 

"My purpose?" this time it was the third elder who was surprised. "Why would I have any reason to get close to you? I only needed to infiltrate the sect and get it ready for when my father arrived, that's all. Falling in love with you was… a happy coincidence."

Wen Cheng grunted as the shock faded away and the pain came flaring back. Alex turned towards him and saw a pool of blood beneath him. 

He quickly brought out a healing pill from his storage bag and gave it to Wen Cheng. Wen Cheng quickly ate it and his wounds closed up, but just like Alex, his cuts too ended on a stub. 

Wen Cheng was now without his right arm a few centimeters down from his shoulder and was missing his little and ring fingers off of his left hand. 

He gritted his teeth and pried his sword off of his fallen hands and grabbed them with his three fingers. His grip was weak, that too on his off-hand that he rarely used his sword with, but he took it and got ready to fight. 

"Yu Ming, run away from here," Wen Cheng said. 

"Master, you need to leave too. We all need to leave," Alex said. "Let's call in reinforcement."

"You go call them," Wen Cheng said. "I will kill this bitch."

Alex looked one last time towards them and turned around to leave. 

"You're not leaving anywhere," the old man shouted. Immediately he took out a formation plate and threw it below him. 

Suddenly, a massive formation sprung forth passing through everyone and reaching a size of about 50 meters in diameter.

It encompassed the entirety of Ma Rong's residence as well as part of the land outside of it. 

Alex could see the barrier surrounding them, but he hoped that he could still escape. The earth opened up beneath him, and he fell through. He then involuntarily traveled through the earth until he hit something and came back out.

When he was out, he saw a slightly yellow barrier in front of him. "Tsk!" he thought. He really couldn't escape now after all.

"YHAAA!" Wen Cheng shouted as he ran forward to attack the third Elder. However, before he could reach her, another sword arrived in front of Wen Cheng and stopped his attack."

"What the hell are you doing, Song Heng!" Wen Cheng shouted. 

"I can't let you kill her, sect leader Wen. She's my wife, the person I love," the Second Elder said. Despite being weaker than Wen Cheng, he could easily stop Wen Cheng's strike.

"Look at her! She's not the person you knew. She was acting this whole time. She's a traitor and has been using you this whole time," Wen Cheng said.

Song Heng felt a tinge of pain in his heart as he knew that was very likely the truth. Still, he held on to the hope that it was all a lie and that he was likely dreaming.

The Third Elder jumped at them with the sword glowing brown and slashed towards Wen Cheng. 

The second elder pushed back Wen Cheng in time and blocked her attack.

"How dare you say that?!" she shouted towards Wen Cheng, trying to force her way to him. "How dare you say my love is fake? There is no truer love than what I feel for him."

The Second elder didn't know what to do. All the things she said... it sounded so good, so true, and yet… could it really be true?

"I'm not lying honey," the third elder turned towards him. "I really do love you." She said. 

The Second elder could only see her eyes, but in those eyes, he could see the truth. It was true. She really did love him.

"I loved you so much that when my father asked for a fake name, I even suggested him your family name," she said with a fervent glee in her eyes.

"You did… what?" the Second Elder was confused. "What fake name?"

"My father, when he was here, he needed a name, so I took your family name, Song, and made him a name."

Everyone was confused, but Alex's eyes went wide. Before the third elder even spoke, he already knew who she was talking about

The first person he truly fought to the death, the person that had infiltrated their sect.

"Song Zun!"