Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2147  The Sun

"The sun is sometimes yellow in the day, red around evening. You should have known there was something going on with it," Silvermist said as they all stood at the side of the ship, looking directly toward the sun.

"I never did. Truthfully, I never even considered the possibility that it could have a different color," Alex said, watching the sun in the stark black backdrop.

"Do you really want to step out?" Silvermist asked. "I don't know if you've recovered enough from the Ever Dark realm."

"I do want to step out, master. I have heard about how strong the sun is and how destructive it is in space. I want to test it out, see how much truth those words hold."

Silvermist thought for a moment and nodded. "Alright, go do what you want. We will stay and watch."

Alex nodded and covered himself with Qi before stepping outside of the bubble of barrier that surrounded the ship. As soon as he stepped outside of that bubble, he immediately felt some energy slam into him, destroying part of his Qi, and stripping it away.

Alex poured out more Qi to block it, but it was continuously depleted. It wasn't a fast rate by any means. It was quite a weak force, but it was consistent, and Alex found no way to stop it. Even using his Intent, he couldn't stop it at all. Although, that may have just been his inability to understand what it was that he was feeling.

If he spent a long time with this, then maybe he could use his Intent to affect it. But for now, it was pretty much useless as whatever aura this was, it was not something he had ever come across before.

'The rate at which my Qi is depleting feels fine, but if I keep at it, I will probably lose it all in a day,' Alex thought. 'Even if I was a Divine realm cultivator, I could maybe last a month or so in direct sunlight before I would have to cultivate. No wonder they need to remain in the shade while they train.'

Alex had received that answer a long time ago, but this was the first time he had properly understood what Sunheart meant when she had explained to him about going to space at first.

Now that he understood that, there was something else he wanted to do.

Slowly, Alex lowered his own guard, removing Qi bit by bit. The more Qi he stripped off himself, the less Qi there was protecting him, and soon even that Qi was gone. Then, he was naked, standing against the power of the sun itself.

Immediately, the exposed parts of his skin felt hot, super hot. There was a gentle breeze of energy coming out from the sun and it burned his skin. His robes began burning as well.

An intense pain filled his body within moments.

Alex put his Qi barrier backed up, protecting himself from the violent sun.

'It hurts,' he thought. The Sun God's body had done nothing for him to protect him from the sun.

He was once again reminded of something Scarlet had told him long ago. He didn't have a Sun body. He had a Yang body. The Sun God was just a person to whom this body belonged in the past. It did not determine what his body was capable of.

Silvermist appeared next to him at the very next moment, covering him with his Qi. "Are you alright? What happened?" he asked.

"Oh, I'm alright, master," Alex said, his wounds now having healed the very next moment after they formed. "Why did you get rid of your barrier?" he asked, worried.

"I just wanted to see how strong the sun is on my physical body. That's all," he answered.

"That was stupid," Silvermist said. "Never do that again. No one can stand in the sun without any protection. Not unless you have a very strong body cultivation."

Alex nodded. Even his level of body cultivation was not enough it appeared. "Are you done?" Silvermist asked. "If so, we can return."

Alex nodded. He got back into the ship and went to get changed now that there were massive holes in his robes. He changed into a separate room and stayed there for a while, thinking about what he had just experienced.

'So the sun isn't my ally as I had hoped,' he thought. 'Sun God's Celestial Yang body. As Scarlet had said, I have a Yang body, not a Sun body.'

It was a disappointing realization, but nothing he could do anything about. His body was still hundreds of times better than many other people. He couldn't wallow in something that didn't happen.

He got back out and saw that they were on their way back to the Eclipsing Heaven realm. He looked ahead of him at the massive world with a beautiful blue ocean and two large continents, one to his left and one to his right.

He didn't know what the orientation he was looking at the realm was. He had no way of telling which way was north. Grimsight easily recognized which one it was.

"That continent to the left is the Winter Continent. Look at how cloudy it is. So, the north is on the right side."

Alex looked at the continents and nodded. It was an easy enough way to tell the difference it seemed.

"Oh right, I wanted to ask. How easy or difficult is it to go to another world from here? Say, to go to the Myriad Spirit realm on just this ship?"

"Traveling the space? It's… not difficult in the way you might be thinking of. It just takes a fair bit of resources and a lot of time," Silvermist answered.

"How long? Do you have an estimate?" Alex asked.

Silvermist simply shrugged. "It's hard to say. The realms move around the sun, continuously spinning through space. Some are faster, some are slower. So sometimes it is closer and sometimes it is farther. You need a good divination expert to tell you how far it is and in which direction. Once you figure that out, the travel itself is easy."

"What would be an average time between the travel then?" Alex asked.

"On a good ship like mine, running at its highest speed, about 2 years. For regular divinities on their speed, easily more than 10 years. And that's just for realms that are close to each other. If you were to try and travel to realms that are much further away, it would take dozens of years easily."

"Wow!" Alex had heard travel took a long time, but this was not what he had been expecting. This was truly a very long time.

If a Divine realm cultivator at their peak took over 2 years to travel between two realms, then there was no way for Alex to do such a thing any time soon.