Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Alex flew up to the Elders in the sky when his name was called. When he arrived, he spoke up before the Elder could hand him poison.

"I would like the Gold Song Decaying poison, please."

The Elder looked at him for a moment and nodded, bringing out an opaque vial with the poison inside of it. He said nothing and simply handed it over to Alex. Dead or alive, the result mattered not to him.

Alex took the vial and opened it.

"Be quick," the Elder said.

Alex nodded. It wasn't like he was taking any time to begin with, but he didn't question the Elder. He took the vial and downed its content in one go.

As the poison touched his tongue, Alex felt a numbing sensation from it. The sensation continued as it slid down his throat, leaving behind an area of numbness.

However, the numbness didn't last very long before a frigid cold aura overwhelmed the section where the poison passed through.

Then, when it entered his stomach and began moving through his bloodstream, his entire body felt as though it was freezing with the coldest of ice surrounding his body.

Alex frowned immediately. He breathed in and out, letting go of some soft foggy breath each time. His body didn't sweat; it couldn't sweat. It was simply too cold.

'What the hell?' he thought. The poison was stronger than he had thought it would be and the assault was dangerous. There was no pain associated with this poison, but the coldness it carried was still lethal, like a cold taken straight out of hell.

If Alex held back his body for too long, there was a chance that he would die. Without hesitation, he let his body do its work.

His Sun God's Celestial Yang body began suffusing vigorous Yang aura throughout every muscle, bone, blood vessel, and wherever else the poison had got to.

There was a struggle there that Alex hadn't expected there to be with the poison fighting back a bit too fiercely. However, it had met against its ultimate nemesis.

The cold simply couldn't stand against the Yang that his body produced.

Alex felt the coldness disappear and then the numbness vanished as well. Finally, he was left only panting as all the poison in his body vanished.

'What a strong poison,' he thought as he finally managed to calm down. 'Was that… really the Gold Song Decaying poison?'

It was a bit too strong.

Alex looked toward the Elder who had handed him the pill and saw a look of clear shock on his face that he hadn't managed to hide at all.

'That's not a normal amount of shock,' Alex thought. Something was going on here.

He thought of bringing up whatever had happened to him right now, but he quickly dismissed the thought. He couldn't act on instinct here. He needed more information.

Alex thanked the elder and returned to Tai Guidao, having successfully survived the assault of the 'Gold Song Decaying poison.'

Once other disciples began going up on their turn, Alex sneakily put the empty vial he had brought back into his Soul Space. In his shock, the Elder hadn't taken back the vial at all.

He could use the remaining poison in the vial to find out just what poison had been fed to him, and why.

As everyone completed their turn eating strong poisons, Alex searched through his knowledge to find out if he knew of any poison such as the one he had consumed earlier. Alas, his knowledge of Immortal poisons didn't exceed beyond just the names.

He would have to buy information on poisons later on.

Yan Xuanwo, the overall 3rd ranking disciple, flew to the sky and consumed the same poison as she did last time. Hei Tingxie, the 1st ranking disciple went next and consumed the same poison from the previous time as well.

Bai Wanzhao would've gone before her this year, had he been alive. He would've probably wanted to beat her, meaning he would once again try the—

A thought struck Alex, a possibility that he didn't like at all. Once the Poison Assembly was over, he quickly went over to the library where he spent a lot of his Contribution points to get access to a section of the library that wasn't so easy to get to.

He went there and quickly found the book he was searching for.

It was a book that listed information about a few poisons. One of the poisons was what Alex wanted to see.

He quickly checked the section of the book to see what the poison did, and he saw the text explain exactly what had happened to him.

Numbness, followed by frigid cold that froze one from the inside. The cold was toxic too, but the toxicity didn't matter much because the coldness was lethal itself. It froze most of one's body, destroying its ability to function. Slowly, the organs stopped working one by one, and the person would die in the end from the cold alone.

Ice formed inside of his body as all sources of liquid and fluids would freeze over.

'Fuck!' Alex thought.

As he had suspected, instead of the Gold Song Decaying poison, Alex had today been fed the Nether Ice Immortal poison. The same poison that had taken the life of Bai Wanzhao.

'So it wasn't a mistake. I was purposefully fed the wrong poison,' he thought. 'That woman, she wants to kill me the same way her son died. Not wants, she nearly did.'

It appeared that the First Elder, Bai Ganzhou had not just forgotten about her son's death.

'Should I tell the sect leaders about this?' Alex thought. He had the bottle with him, that was evidence enough. But could that work?

Would the woman have placed countermeasures to not implicate herself?

'No, she must've been certain I would die,' Alex thought. 'There is no way she was prepared to be confronted by a survivor.'

But then, there was another problem.

Alex sighed. 'How the fuck am I going to explain that I survived the Nether Ice Immortal Poison?' he thought.

After all, the Nether Ice Immortal Poison was something that no disciple had yet tried to consume in any of the Poison Assembly. It was what Bai Wanzhao had tried to consume to get the 1st rank and died.

Was he going to show that he, a 3-year-old Immortal, had successfully survived such a strong poison without any assistance? That was bullshit. He would be in more trouble than he was right now.

Right now, a single woman was after him. But if he revealed more about himself, a lot more people would be after him. Some for answers, some for his body.

Alex could not let that happen. He could not let himself become someone's slave, or worse, be killed and made into a clone. Too much of this world's future was balanced on who he was.

He needed to continue to hide, to continue to live a life in the shadows until it was time for him to come out to the light and shine bright like the sun.

The truth of today's plot would have to remain hidden, even if it benefited his enemy more.