Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

No matter how Alex tried to understand the implications of what he had just heard, he couldn't come up with any understandable conclusions.

"This event... did it happen before or after the beasts fought the humanoid monster 5 thousand years ago?" he asked.

The man surnamed Yang looked at Alex with a dry smile. "That was the event 5 thousand years ago," he said.

Alex felt his heart skip a beat when he heard that. "Then the opening to Earth, was it created by the humanoid monster that fought the beasts?" he asked.

"It was," the man said. "Right after this Qi barrier was created, he created that very opening and went to your ancestor's world known as Earth."

Alex was slackjawed for a while. "What sort of creature is capable of opening a doorway in space that leads to a world that doesn't exist?" he asked.

The man gave a dry laugh. "If anyone could do it, it's him," he said.

Alex looked at the man with a curious look. "Do you know who it was?" he asked. "Do you happen to know the identity of the monster that fought the beasts?"

"He... is not someone you need to know about," the man said.

"He?" Alex asked with a surprised expression. "It was a man?"

"No, it wasn't," the man said. "He was... no, I can't say." The man shook his head furiously and gulped a few times while looking around him from time to time.

"Are you... afraid of this monster, senior?" Alex asked.

"Hehe, who wouldn't?" the man asked.

"Do you need to be afraid?" Alex asked. "If even the beasts could fight against that being, then you should be strong enough to defeat him too, right?"

"Defeat? Him? Are you crazy?" the man asked. "Do you think the beasts defeated that thing? I told you, he went to Earth. His intention had always been to leave. Had he wanted to defeat the beasts, not a single one of them would've made it out of this place alive."

"They were simply beaten up because they were an annoyance to him for getting in his way," the man said. "Someone who can do something as grand as pushing the Qi on this continent to form a wall wouldn't simply die to the beasts."

"So, it really was that being who created the Qi barrier huh?" Alex said.

"Yes," the man said. "And his Intent still remains in this world, continuously pushing all Qi out of here."

The man looked around with a terrified look on his face that he couldn't hide at all. He quickly shook his head and looked back toward Alex. "Now, please stop asking me about this incident. I do not feel comfortable speaking anything related to this being."

Seeing how agitated the man had become about the topic, Alex decided to drop it. However, he could still feel waves of shock in his heart from the information he had received.

'Then... did the White Tiger die for nothing?' he thought. 'Did it not even manage to kill the monster after sacrificing itself? That is what it means if the monster managed to make that opening right?'

Hao Ya felt uncomfortable with the sudden silence and spoke up. "Right, Alex. You have other questions for my master, right? Ask away. He is willing to answer everything."

The man looked toward Hao Ya and chuckled a little before turning back toward Alex. "Yes, you can ask me anything. I don't know if I will answer it all or not, but I guarantee you I won't be offended at all," he said.

Alex looked up from his stupor and quickly thought of what to ask. "Uhh..." he couldn't immediately ask anything. It wasn't so much that he had no questions, but rather he couldn't choose one from the many that he had in his mind.

He looked around trying to think of one that he immediately wanted to know about and happened to see Scarlet in the distance who seemed to be speaking on her own for some reason by the lake.

"Oh right, sun!" Alex said.

"Sun?" Hao Ya asked.

"My body," Alex said quickly. "Senior, when I first started the game, it said my body is called the Sun God's Divine Yang body, and yet no one seems to know what that is at all. No one even knows what a Sun God is."

"Oh, is that what you're most curious about?" the man asked. "I would've assumed you would first ask why I had you all play the game."

"Well, that too," Alex said.

The man nodded. "I understand, you are curious about a lot of things. I would too," he said. "Let's see. Regarding your body, the reason no one knows about your body is because of two things.

"The first is the fact that it has rarely ever appeared as it has with you. It has been named many different things before for the various properties it holds."

"The Extreme Yang body, the Heaven Devouring body, the Earth Consuming body, the Poison's Bane constitution, Qi Stealing body, Serene Mind Constitution, etc. Throughout history, whenever people would be born with your body, they would immediately be named one of the names that were more popular."

"They were never named what your body is truly named because no one knows about the name itself. I only happened to learn of the name after reading through an archaic record I found in my master's library," he said. "That book held the name for your body, and the significance it held."

"Significance?" Alex asked. "What sort of significance?"

"That brings me to the second reason why no one knows about your body," the man said. "And that is the fact that the being known as the Sun God has disappeared from history, except for the very few records that have lasted since ancient times."

"Wait, so the Sun God really existed?" Alex asked with a surprised face.

"He did," the man said.

"And the records of his existence were erased?" Alex asked.

"No, not erased. They simply disappeared to time itself," the man said. "After all, the being known as the Sun God lived so long in the past that we don't even have a complete record of him. All we know is that he simply wasn't there anymore when he was needed the most."

"Why was he needed?" Alex asked.

"Because of the war," the man said. "There was a large war that happened a lot of time ago, and just before the war, the Sun God disappeared."

"The Eternal war?" Alex asked.

The man was taken aback a bit. "You know about that? Well, that makes things simple then," he said. "Yes, the Sun God disappeared before the Eternal War began. No records of him can be found afterward."

"I see," Alex said. "So that's why no one knows about them at all."

"No, people still know about them," the man said. "They just don't know the name."

"Huh?" Alex asked. "People know about them?"

"Yes," the man said. "The Sun God and the Moon Goddess are well known everywhere, albeit not by their names. You must have heard about them too, haven't you?"

"After all, it is them they are talking about when the people refer to the two True gods."