Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

"That I can understand," Scarlet said. "But can your body heal while in the sun?"

"No," Alex replied.

"Uh, can it get stronger in the sun or faster?" she asked.

"No," Alex said again.

"So, do you get any sort of benefit while the sun is out that you do not get at night time?" she asked.

"N—no," Alex said. "But my body has Yang Qi though."

"And my body has Fire Qi," Scarlet said.

"Isn\'t Yang close enough to Fire?" Alex asked.

"They appear to be, but they\'re entirely different. You can\'t take two types of elements and say it\'s the same. Do you think Water is the same as Yin? If so what are the same as Earth, Metal, and Wood?"

Alex shrunk a little. "I don\'t know," he said. "That\'s the only idea I had."

"Sun God\'s Celestial Yang body," Scarlet said out loud. "I don\'t know who this sun god is or was, but it sounds like you have a body that has to do with Yang, more than it has to do with Sun."

"I…" Alex sighed a little. He couldn\'t argue at all. "I thought because it had the word sun, it might be the case."

"Just because it has a name, doesn\'t mean it is that thing," Scarlet said. "Besides, how did you even find out that name? I swear I\'ve never heard of it before."

"I… read it from my game system," Alex said. Even as he said it, he couldn\'t help but understand the possibility of the game lying to him.

"What\'s a game system?" Scarlet asked.

"When we were sent here, we had some visual things that would appear in front of us that only we could see. It had a bunch of information about us, which we used to learn about our cultivation base, Spiritual roots, and talents. It also included our body, and mine was called Sun God\'s Divine Yang Body at the time."

"It was a Divine grade body at the time, which evolved to the Celestial grade after I ate a Nine Yang Divine fruit. Considering what it said—"

"Hold on! Hold On!" Scarlet shouted quickly. "What did you say you ate?"

"Uhh, Nine Yang Divine Fruit," Alex said. "Why?"

"Can you describe it?" Scarlet asked curiously.

"I mean, not visually, but it was so strong that it suppressed an entire area to be without Qi and barely any spiritual energy at all. Anyone who walked into its radius would become a mortal."

"It also shined so bright that the night would look like day, but that was around the end when the fruit was fully ripe. I didn\'t have my eyesight or any other feeling at the time. I only remember eating the fruit and then I woke up later, fully healed," Alex said.

"You were injured?" Scarlet asked. "Actually, that doesn\'t matter. Did you eat a fruit of the Nine Yang Divine Tree? No way!"

"I did," Alex said. "I even have the— never mind. Do you know anything about the fruit?"

He felt very sad when he remembered all the items he had lost in the battle against the false immortal. The Nine Yang Divine fruit\'s seed and 3 of the tree\'s leaves had been a few of the things he had lost with them.

Worst of all, he hadn\'t lost it in a place like the Northern Continent, where one could pick it up and keep it after his battle was over. It was lost in the dammed Qi barrier of the Central Continent that would rip everything to shred.

"Did this fruit also get named the same way your body was named or...?" Scarlet asked.

"Oh no, I know its name because it\'s a fruit," Alex said. "I have the Alchemy God\'s Knowledge in here, and I can name any and every plant in the world."

"I find that impossible to believe," Scarlet said. "How is there another Nine Yang Divine Tree in this world?"

Alex was getting more and more curious as well. He had searched a bit about the fruit while he was back in the Beast realm in the western continent, and neither the World Tree\'s seed nor the Nine Yang Divine fruit had resulted in any information.

"Can you tell me why that is important? The fruit I mean," Alex said.

"That plant is treated as the Nine Yang court\'s god. I can\'t imagine what they would do if they ever find out that there is another one of the plants out there," Scarlet said.

"Who are the Nine Yang court?" Alex asked.

"They are one of the oldest human organizations in the world. Their past dates back to a time that a normal person can\'t even imagine," Scarlet said. "It is said that… it is said that their organization was actually established way before the Eternal War even started. As for its purpose… nobody really knows."

"Before the Eternal War?" Alex asked with a shocked look on his face. "When did that start exactly?"

"That information is so old that even I am not qualified to learn about it. You might just have to be in the Divine realm to even learn about it, maybe even Celestial, who knows," Scarlet said. "It was definitely hundreds of thousands of years ago, that\'s for sure."

"Anyway, where\'s that tree?" Scarlet asked. "We should tell the Nine Yang court about it before they think this world tried to hide it from them. They are such a strict group of people that they would go to war with the Heavenly beasts if they believed we were hiding it in this world on purpose."

"Uhh…" Alex hesitated for a bit. "It\'s… not there anymore. After I ate the fruit, the plant was destroyed."

"Oh," Scarlet said with a surprised face. "Okay, that makes it better. The Nine Yang court won\'t come for this world then if they never find there\'s another one of their trees here."

"Uhh…" Alex hesitated once again.

"What?" Scarlet asked.

"What if…" he thought for a bit. "What if there were only one tree? What if over a thousand years ago, a bunch of stuff fell from the stars in a meteor shower, and the Nine Yang Divine tree happened to be one of those things?"

"What… are you saying?" Scarlet asked.

"What I\'m saying is… what if the fruit I ate, came from the tree that was supposed to be with the Nine Yang court, but somehow it came down here," Alex said. "It wouldn\'t be the only thing here as many other immortal items fell down as well, including the Blood God\'s Manual, the Ocean God\'s Teardrop, and many Immortal and Divine grade cultivation techniques."

"And including all that, the Nine Yang Divine Tree. What if it belonged to the Nine Yang Court?"

Scarlet\'s eyes went wide and she started fearing. "If… if that were the case and people were to ever find out, then… the Nine Yang Court would definitely punish the one that resulted in it coming here, and… the one that destroyed it."

Alex couldn\'t help but give a terrified smile at the answer. "Uhh, so it\'s better if we don\'t let the cat out of the box, huh?"

"You will definitely have to hide it with all of your life," Scarlet said as she thought about it. "I will have to remove this information from my head too. Dear god, this is scary."

"Le-let\'s not talk about it then," Alex said. "Let\'s never talk about it. Uhh… let\'s talk about my body again. I learned about it from the information that was given to me by the creator of the game that sent us here."

"Right, game and creator, yes. Understandable," Scarlet said as she nodded her head, but Alex could see her head wasn\'t there at all.

"Yes," he said. "It was because of the creator that I thought my body was the reason why you decided to bond with me."

"I see," Scarlet said. "Did you not consider the creator lying then?"

"Never," Alex said. "I… had no reason to, really."

"You\'ve never met this creator, right? So why do you trust him so much?" Scarlet asked.

"I don\'t know," Alex said. "I suppose I just do."

"Yeah, unless you can find him, you won\'t know what is true, and what is not," Scarlet said. "But you did mention that you know where he is, right?"

"Yes," Alex said. "In the Central Continent."

"There\'s a realm that is named like th— wait, Central Continent?" Scarlet was surprised. "Our Central Continent?"

"The same one we can\'t enter to right now," Alex said. "That is where we come from."

​ "Huh? Wait, what?" Scarlet was confused. "Those people outside said players came from another world, because of how good their talent was."

"No, they all come from the Central continent. It\'s an entirely different world in there, and we were snuck out of the place with the old teleportation formations that are still in there. The creator of our game made it happen."

"I am so confused right now," Scarlet said.

"I can understand," Alex said. "Our talent comes from the fact that we are humans without Demon blood mixed into us, which is why everyone is so talented."

"No, wait," Scarlet said. "I\'m so confused. Please explain everything from the beginning to me."