Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy



Alex invited the Crown Prince in, letting him into his room where the other two elders had already arrived.

The crown prince had come to visit him a few times during the first month, and then twice in the 2nd month. In the third month, he visited not a single time. 

He had yet to visit him this month either and at this point, Alex had simply stopped expecting for him to come. However, it seemed he had come this time around 

"Your majesty," the crown prince bowed in his presence. "I hope you've been having fun. You must've felt alone with me and royal father being absent for quite a long time."

"I can't say I have been lonely, but I've certainly missed the occasional company, Prince Fangyu," Alex spoke. 

"My apologies," the Crown Prince said. "But I hope you haven't been bored in this time, however. I heard you've been visiting quite a few of the royal schools."

"Yes, I have. I can't say I'm bored either. I have been having fun and learning quite a lot these days. They weren't lying when they said Eastern Continent is the most advanced. It truly deserves its reputation."

The Crown Prince smiled at the compliment. "Your words mean a lot to us, your majesty," he said.

"So, what brings you here? Just a little meet and greet?" Alex asked.

"Actually, no," the prince said. "I've actually been going around, looking for what you asked me to find."

Alex paused for a moment. "What I asked you to find?" he asked. He didn't remember asking the prince anything in the last 2 months that would explain his absence.

"Uhh… the queen candidates, your majesty?" the prince asked.

"Oh!" Alex only then realized what he meant. "Right, right. I thought you meant some ingredients or something."

"No, I was busy outside of my military hours looking for the perfect candidates for you, your Majesty," the Crown prince said as he brought out a few talismans. "Here are the ones I found. I'm certain you will like them."

Alex hesitated a bit, but quickly took the talismans and saw that there were 4 of them exactly.

"4?" he couldn't help but ask.

"Well, your requirements were quite stringent," the prince said with a bit of an awkward smile.

"Haha, right," Alex said and started looking into the talismans. 

The first talisman had a girl whose name was Talia. She was clearly a player, and the prince had somehow managed to find her age to be less than 70 years as well.

She was from the Emerald Kingdom, with a cultivation base of the late Saint Core realm as of half a year ago when she appeared to take part in the Endless Shadow Abyss. She belonged to the Cloud Iron sect from the western parts of the Emerald Kingdom, where the major sect was set around the mountains. 

Alex saw her image in the talisman. She was a short girl with thick black hair and a pair of gray eyes. She wore a green and white robe, while her hair held quite a few pearls on it.

The girl was quite pretty, even by Alex's standards. Not enough to make him feel anything, but he wouldn't be surprised if most regular men were smitten with her.

There was quite a few more description about her what weapon she used, what sort of techniques she had, and even if there were any rumors that she had any romantic partners. 

None of that really mattered to Alex, but it was good to see the prince put thought into who he was suggesting.

Given the information, the girl was truly one of the more well-rounded, better females he had seen in a long time. However, there was one big flaw in her that made Alex frown.

She was not Hannah.

The entire reason why Alex had made the prince search for very young girls that were also powerful enough to be his equal was to find out if he could meet Hannah.

Given her body constitution, she should have been quite strong by now, so he expected her to be on the list.

Given that this Talia girl wasn't it, he moved on to the next talisman.

The next girl was someone named Ren Wujin. 

This girl was taller than the previous girl, wore a red robe with falling petal designs all over it, and wore a golden mask on her head as a form of jewelry through which her bright blonde hair was tied up.

This girl was quite pretty as well and was apparently an adopted daughter of the Ren Family that existed in the Gold kingdom.

However, just like the other one, she wasn't Hannah that he was looking.

'Well, they seem to be using a different name, so maybe sister is doing the same as well,' Alex thought and pulled out another talisman.

This one had a tall girl that looked quite masculine in the way she dressed. She had dark black hair that was tied up in a ponytail behind her with a piece of ribbon.

While her dress was masculine, her face was ever so feminine. She also wore a lot of jewelry around her face that enhanced her beauty even more.

She wore milky blue robes with no additional design added to it, and from what he read, she was an elder in the Ice Mist Palace of the Ivory region.

Once again, this was another sect where only females were allowed to join. However, unlike the Frozen Heart sect of the Northern Continent, it didn't seem like the girls had any restrictions forced on them by either the sect or the cultivation method.

It was really just a sect that didn't want men to join them.

The girl's name was Su Railin, one of the more awkward names that Alex had heard until now, that he could guess was chosen by the girl herself without knowing much about the names of the outside world.

'Once again, not Hannah,' he thought and shook his head.

The final girl had a head full of red hair, immediately catching his attention. She wore a dark blue robe with long pink ribbons floating around her tied-up hair.

The jewelry that dangled from her hair shaped her pretty little face giving her quite the charm. 

Her name was Layla and she was from the Immortal Saint Pavillion of the Ebony Kingdom. However, evident by her name, she wasn't Hannah either.

None of the 4 girls the prince had brought back was Hannah.

Alex started worrying that the worst-case scenario was true and that Hannah had died at some point since she was teleported here.

His Aunt Liz had just recently been heartbroken after learning of her husband Rob's death. She could not handle knowing that her daughter was dead too.

'No, I must find sister under all conditions,' Alex thought. He looked at the girls once again. While they weren't Hannah, they gave him a pretty good idea of what an average girl with strong talent could achieve. 

What these girls could do, his sister could certainly do. If she was alive, she had certainly made a name for herself somewhere on the continent, even if the name she used wasn't her real one.

All Alex had to do now was go out and find her.