Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Alex logged back into the game, and the first thing he told himself was to forget about everything.

"Forget about the game being real, forget about formations, forget about everything for now. The first thing I should be doing is finding myself a way out of this formation," Alex spoke out loud.

Suddenly, the earth opened up and devoured him. He exited out of it when he hit the barrier underground. He was once again on the edge of the formation.

"Where are the formation flags?" Alex wondered. He tried searching for it, but it was incredibly well hidden. Alex even sent out his spiritual sense to search for it in near trees but there were none.

With no choice, he started hitting the wall. He hit it with every power he had, but no matter how strong Alex was, the barrier didn't stop working at all. In fact, it didn't even fluctuate.

"This must be a True rank barrier as well. Damn that Zexi, why did he set up such a strong barrier?" Alex wondered. "Speaking of which, where did his body go. I need to get back my stuff."

Alex started running around aimlessly in the fog. However, unlike yesterday, he couldn't find the corpse as fast as he wanted to.

It took him nearly half an hour of wandering aimlessly did he finally find the corpse. The skin looked incredibly pale and a strange scent was starting to rise from Zexi's body.

"Sh*t, it is already decomposing. I need to bury it," Alex thought. He took all of the storage bags from Zexi's body and took out his steel sword before stabbing it onto the ground to dig it.

He stabbed the ground a few times before he took out the dirt with his own hands. After doing that for 10 minutes, he now had a large enough hole to fully bury Zexi.

Once he was done burying Zexi, he looked at his own storage bags first. Everything he owned was there, with nothing being used, except for a single thing.

"Hmm… the Ebony Corundum Stiletto is missing," Alex thought. Last he remembered, Zexi had stabbed it on the ground and hadn't bothered retaking it at the time. "He was more focused on looking at my memories," Alex thought.

"Sigh, I guess I will have to find it later on.  For now, let's see what a High Prince owns," Alex thought and took out his storage bags.

When Alex checked inside, the first thing he noticed was the tens of hundreds of True Spirit Stones. "I— I'm rich," Alex shouted out in excitement. There were close to half a million dollars in the form of True Spirit stones in there.

The more he looked through the more stuff he found. Different weapons, armors, artifacts. There was even a boat inside of it. If he sold these, he could also gain a lot of money from them.

He then came across a piece of paper. When he checked inside it, he realized it was an instruction on house to set up the Spirit Disorienting formation.

"What? 50 meters? That's absurd," Alex thought when he read it. The formation was told to be set such that the formation flags were each 50 meters away from where the formation actually started. Also, the True spirit stones required to power these things were also around these formation flags.

"Urgh… so they aren't next to the formation huh? Does that mean I will have to wait here for another 30 days?" Alex questioned himself. The thought of this was quite terrifying. Being in the formation for over a month was not something he wanted to do.

"Maybe master will come to find me once they realize I am missing. Maybe they are already searching for me. I hope I am not very far away from them," Alex hoped.

"I wonder if senior sister went back to fight that guy. I hope she won if she did. Although, maybe they stopped the competition after such a tragedy that happened," he thought.

He sighed and went back to checking the storage bags of Zexi. The other things he found in there were some pills and talismans that were mostly useless for Alex aside from a few of them.

"Ugh… I doubt I can even reveal any of these items in public. They will probably kill me if they found out their High Prince is missing and I have his items," Alex thought.

"I hope he didn't have a fami— wait, the Royal family is his family. Well, I hope he didn't have a wife a child," Alex thought. He hated Zexi, but he wasn't heartless enough to wish badly for his family too.

"Although I remember master saying that the third brother of the emperor wasn't married. That's good," Alex thought and went back to searching the bag.

The next thing he found was a white, oval ball. He took it out and held it. It didn't take him very long to realize that it was an egg. A notification popped up over the egg to tell him what the egg was of, but even without it, he would've known.

The black splotches on its shell were a dead giveaway. "The Emerald Lizard's egg. I remember the auctioneer saying that the lizard has a high chance of entering the True realm and a minor chance of reaching the Saint realm."

"This is a good find," Alex thought. He didn't require a beast for himself, but he could certainly give this to somebody else he cared about.

He put that aside and started searching for more stuff until he found something that was interesting.

"Oh, what's this?" Alex thought and took out a woodblock. Then his eyes started shining brightly. "Hahaha, No way!" he thought. He remembered the auction event very clearly and remembered every single item that was sold there.

This was something he had wanted, perhaps just as much as his armor right now, but had failed to get it because Zexi had outbid him without any hesitation.

The woodblock was actually a wooden box that housed alchemy ingredients. Alex quickly opened it and looked inside.

Just as he had expected, there it was. Inside was a dark-blue flower that was shaped like a lotus. Alex's eyes shined and he spoke in excitement.

"The Umbra Lotus."