Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

The brown blade cut into Song Zun's arms like it was butter. It then went through the side of his shoulders, chest, and leg, chopping the right side of his body clean off.

BAM

A massive loud sound erupted from where the blade landed. The blade itself was halfway into the earth, only a part of the blade and the remaining part of the sword was up above.

The right half of Song Zun's body dropped to the right as the innards started spilling out from wherever it could. "You…" Song Zun was still a little conscious as he spoke a few words in a daze.

"You killed this body. I… I worked hard to make this body and you…" his eyes could no longer focus as his mind was starting to go blank due to the lack of blood.

"I will kill you."

He managed to say that just as he fell to the ground. He was dead.

Alex breathed deeply. He had never intended to kill him, only incapacitate, and yet… "I killed someone," the realization of what he had just done was coming back to Alex.

He had killed many monsters before, but they were just that, monsters. To him, they were like the farm animals back at home. However, a human on the other hand.

"Oh no…. Oh my god. What have I done?" his face started to drain in color as he slumped to the ground and got face to face with the corpse that had dropped to the ground.

The moment he saw that his stomach started churning and everything he had eaten beforehand came out the wrong way. He would vomit for a bit and see the mess he made once again and vomit again.

It took him about 4 to 5 vomits to even manage to turn around from the gore in front of him. Both of his swords were right there, but he cared about none of them for now.

He ran a little forwards to the grass and fell onto it. He put his hands behind his head tried to forget everything. But that was impossible. He could never forget what he had just seen, what he had just done.

The experience remained vivid in his mind as he couldn't forget anything. He wanted to forget everything, and just go hide inside his mind. He felt like his soul was reaching a breaking point and he would tear it down into different pieces at any moment.

Suddenly, he felt someone touch him. It wasn't a real person, only something he felt in his mind. He imagined himself standing behind him, with a hand on his shoulders, telling him, "It will be fine. You will be fine.".

Alex looked back in real life, but obviously, no one was there. "I will be fine?" he thought. He stopped constantly remembering the gore and the event.

"He… was a clone. Not a real person," he tried to tell himself. He knew the body belonged to someone else that the man stole and used, so in his head, he knew that it was a real person before this. However, on the outside, he kept telling himself that it was not a real person.

It was then he remembered his master's words. The exact words.

"You are young and you are pure-hearted, but that heart will for sure dye in the filth of the world of cultivation. Make sure you never let that filth stick to yourself. You might get drowned in it, but you have to learn to climb over it."

"I wish you never have to kill anyone, but I know you will have to, even if it's just to defend yourself and your loved ones. The only thing I can do is hope is you don't lose yourself along with your enemies."

He remembered those words as clear as if they were said today.

"Climb over the filth," he said in a monotone voice. "Don't lose yourself along with your enemies." His eyes started turning serious.

"Don't lose yourself, Alex. Climb over the filth. Get over it. You will have to deal with stuff much worse than this. You can't let yourself be devoured by the ones you destroyed," he said with an angry tone.

"I am not going to lose myself because of filths like them. There are bigger things in the wait for me. I can't let these incidents be roadblocks for me. I will NOT let these incidents be a roadblock for me," Alex stood up and turned towards the corpse.

He felt his stomach churn, but he held it in. Instead, he walked up to the corpse and reached the Ebony Corundum Stiletto. He needed to get down to the sword to put it inside his storage once more.

He was right next to the innards, but he didn't let it bother him anymore. Once the stiletto was back into the storage bag, he took hold of the second sword.

Suddenly, he heard rustling behind him. He immediately turned around, sword at the ready to cut anyone else if necessary.

"Woah, brother wait, I…" before the person could even finish saying anything, he saw the corpse in the moonlight and immediately went to the side to vomit. More sounds of vomits and general disgusts arose from the surrounding,

It seemed many people had come back after the sound of fighting was done. Many people voiced disgust towards the dead body, but there were some who were awed in amazement.

These were the people who had actually fought the boss before and got their butts handed to them. They were stunned to see that the boss who had beat them so effortlessly was now dead.

Not just lost, dead. This was something these people would've never expected. Even the three men who gave Alex the information about Song Zun were amongst the crowd, looking at the scene in disbelief.

Alex ignored everyone that was watching, however. Instead, he put his sword behind him once more and walked into the cave.