Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Alex tested Momo's ability to control her own poison. That was more important to her than her alchemy skills, as the poison was something she would be living with her entire life, having to control it at every moment.

Momo's physique was an interesting one when it came to poison. While it did create poison of its own, it wasn't something original to her physique. Instead, it copied the effects of the strongest poison she had recently consumed and refined.

She could, from Alex's understanding, consume poison that was beyond her own cultivation base as well, maybe even in the Immortal rank, and survive. However, doing so would cause her to lose control and grow unstable, and she wouldn't be able to keep the poison inside her at all times as she had been doing until now.

That was something Alex wanted to avoid, so he made sure she understood not to ever get into a situation like that.

As her cultivation base improved, now at Saint Condensation 7th realm, her poison continued to improve as well. By now, Moss had reached the Saint realm as well, helping Momo improve her poison ever so slowly.

She had chosen to copy Moss's poison still, which had a certain effect of chilling a person to their core while freezing their body entirely. Their muscles became stiff, and their body grew pale.

It also had a spiritual effect of completely slowing down one's thoughts and mental speed, denying them the chance to even counteract it.

It was still quite weak in the early Saint realm, but as Momo grew in strength, so would her poison.

At the Saint realm, Moss could talk out loud freely should he choose to, but the little lizard rarely talked when Alex was around, except when asked questions. He was of a shy nature, but Momo mentioned that he talked quite openly when it was just the two of them, so Alex didn't question it.

During the time Alex had focused on cultivating to the Immortal Origin realm, Momo had focused all her time simply training to make different pills that could help alleviate the poison's effects. If nothing else, those years of serious training had improved her understanding of poisons and antidotes to the point where even Alex was surprised by it.

She was so good now that she could understand most poisons in the Saint rank and, 9 out of 10 times, come up with an antidote on her own. It was quite the talent to have.

So, now, Alex had to help her with the rest.

The best method of training Alex had found was to teach for a day, give a week for self-learning, and then come back to test her on another day. This made Momo rely on herself while constantly allowing Alex to intervene if she was stuck on something or going astray with her understanding of pills.

Of course, pills were made to affect human bodies, so Alex taught Momo about human physiology and how to check for problems there as well. He was teaching her to become a healer.

He wasn't certain this would come up during the Disciple test at all, but he found himself not caring much about the test as he began teaching Momo. He cared more that she became a well-rounded alchemist, not someone who was there just to get some points for him.

He realized at some point that even if Momo were to come dead last in her competition, he wouldn't mind at all. He was certain to enter the final competition after all, so he instead focused on turning Momo into an alchemist who could take care of herself once he had to leave this world.

As Momo's understanding of the human body grew, so did her approach to alchemy. It was no longer about what type of energy did what but rather how those energies affected the human body to do the things they did.

All pills were made for the human body, so understanding the human body was a great first step in improving one's alchemy knowledge.

Of course, there were pills that worked without needing a human to eat them. There were explosive pills, for example, that were only meant to be used offensively, never meant to be consumed.

Alex had thought that way for a while now, but lately, he had started to think differently about those pills. He wasn't sure if his understanding of the situation was mistaken or not, but he believed those pills to be failures.

Those explosive pills were made in such a way that a single change in them could cause a catastrophic failure in their internal energy combination, which resulted in a massive burst of energy release.

Like a house of cards waiting for someone to knock away one of the cards, causing the entire thing to collapse.

Manufactured failures they may be, they were failures nonetheless.

Pills were meant to be eaten, after all. Otherwise, what was the purpose of making them pills? Why did they need to come from plants and animals, things that could be consumed?

Scripts and formations were meant to affect things on the outside. Pills were supposed to affect things on the inside.

At least, that was Alex's understanding for now. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe he was right. He didn't see how that affected anything, really, so he continued teaching Momo just as before.

Momo's improvement slowed down drastically in the coming days, but only because there was nothing left to improve upon. She had already gotten as good as she could with her current cultivation base, so now the only lesson she really needed was how to handle a Pill Cloud.

Pill Clouds were quite scary for first-timers, so Alex taught her everything she needed to know about them. Whether or not she successfully learned anything and could apply it when the time came relied entirely upon her.

For now, Alex had done everything he could.

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