Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2358 The Fifth Page

Chapter 2358  The Fifth Page

Alex felt, with no small sense of astonishment, the pulse that came from his Soul Space once again.

It was a different sort of pulse than the one he had received before from Bai Jingshen's talisman. It felt… closer, as though the pulse came from something intrinsically linked to him.

Alex grew curious.

He grabbed at it, immediately throwing his mind into his Soul Space to follow after the pulse. The pulse was weak as it retreated, but Alex was quick enough that he didn't miss it like he had with the other pulse. He arrived before it almost instantly.

The pulse came from a singular artifact, which surprised Alex.

'This?' he thought. Never in a thousand years would he have expected this to act out on its own, to pulse and call for him. He had thought it dormant, no longer able to do anything.

Alex grew even more curious now as he pulled the artifact out from his Soul Space.

The artifact landed on Alex's arm, thick and heavy. It was in the shape of a book, as it always was: metal in body with some heft to it. You could probably kill someone by hitting them with it.

This was the book artifact named the Blood God's Manual.

"Why did you pulse?" Alex asked the artifact. As if trying to answer, the book pulsed again, the feeling flowing directly through their bond. That was why Alex had felt the pulse so much closer than the other one.

Suddenly, as though growing with a life of its own, the book floated away from Alex's hand, hovering right before him. He was face-to-face with the cover of the book, which had the design of the maw of a beast with a thousand sharp teeth interlocking closely.

When the book wanted blood, that maw would open and its tongue would come out to taste it.

This time, the maw didn't open. Instead, the book itself opened. The book turned, the first page flipping open, and Alex saw written on it what he already knew.

Page 1: Blood Absorption

This was the technique Alex had gotten through the book that allowed him to absorb the blood of others, empowering his own. This, sadly, wasn't a technique he could teach others since the requirements to grow with it were quite high.

They also needed blood that was quite strong to begin with, which no one in his family had. Even he wouldn't have had it if not for the White Tiger's blood essence he had absorbed early in his cultivation journey.

Pearl was the next best choice when it came to teaching this technique, but that hadn't been possible until he reached the Immortal realms when he got a human body, and by that point, Alex had already believed the book to be useless for the most part and ignored those ideas.

He was already unable to find blood for himself during those periods, so teaching Pearl wasn't even a thought for him.

Maybe… he could start now. Surely it wasn't too late.

The book's page flipped, landing on the second page.

Page 2: Blood Manipulation

It was a technique that, upon learning, would allow someone to use their own blood, or even the blood of others that had been previously prepared. It taught one how to harden blood to use it as a physical weapon or keep it flowing to use it for different sorts of attacks.

Because of how weak Alex's blood had been for a long time, he never truly made much use of this. It was a sad truth, but a truth nonetheless.

The book flipped to the third page.

Page 3: Blood Armor

"Come on!" Alex thought, starting to get impatient. He knew what was going on. The book was going to turn to a new page, wasn't it? He didn't understand the point of this suspense. It was only making him feel more frustrated now than excited.

The image of the blood armor that Alex wore was drawn on that page, next to a large set of instructions and descriptions on how to use the technique to form it.

Alex read it offhandedly and wondered for the first time in perhaps forever: "Can I improve this?"

Blood Armor only covered his chest, protecting a person's vital organs, such as his lungs, heart, and dantian. But it didn't protect his head, his neck, or his limbs.

'What if it covered everything?' Alex wondered.

He knew why it only protected as much as it did. There was only so much blood in a human body, and the blood was what hardened to form the armor. As such, there was only so much a human could afford to send out and use as armor.

If the entire body were to be covered, all of the person's blood would have to be drawn out, leaving nothing at all within their body. Even if they did eat some pill to quickly regrow their blood, that blood would still lack most of its blood aura.

But Alex was different. He didn't have the same issues other people did. His blood regrew almost instantly, thanks to his undying physique, and he could also add aura to that new blood to make it as powerful as the rest of it.

'I can stand the flaw that would otherwise take down others,' Alex thought. This was a good thing.

The page flipped again.

Page 4: Blood Beasts

The method of creating blood beasts was written on this page. At the same time, this page was also a holding space for the blood beasts that Alex had created. Currently, he had more than a few hundred, but none of them were strong enough to even be in the Immortal realm.

This technique was just a bit flawed in its necessity to find new beast cores in order to make beasts as powerful as him.

Alex tried to think of a solution, but the book didn't wait for him this time, flipping again.

The fifth page opened, a page that Alex had given up on a long time ago.

Finally, fervently, he looked at the page, reading the words written on it. And it sent shock through his entire body.

Page 5: Blood Origin