[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-cultivation-of-alchemy":3,"chapter-eternal-cultivation-of-alchemy-eternal-cultivation-of-alchemy-chapter-575":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},141836,218,"Chapter 575 Burnt Book","eternal-cultivation-of-alchemy-chapter-575",575,"\u003Cp>A few more days, that was all Alex had to wait. It had been 4 days since Fu Tao and the group had teleported into the beast's realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the last 4 days, he had been doing nothing but staying in the palace or going out to the city with the princess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The princess' guard was always with her, but she never came out to speak with Alex. It seemed that she was still shy from the last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex had already gone through all the markets buying everything he wanted from ingredients to recipes to formations to even swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one he got was a weak one even compared to his own previous sword. At least, it would be easier to refine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest of the time he would spend in Alchemy hall in the city where he could make as many pills as he could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the 2nd day, he had made a particularly good harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning from walking around the city, Alex had gone back to his room to rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just then someone knocked on the door to his guest room. Alex left his bed and opened the door to see a maid outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His Majesty calls you to his study room,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The emperor is calling for me?\" Alex asked and left the room. The maid showed the way to the study room and stopped a bit before reaching the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty, you called for me?\" Alex asked as he entered the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, you are here. Come, come,\" the Emperor beckoned him in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex walked in to see that the Emperor was not alone. He was instead with a feminine-looking man of thin building, luscious flowing black hair, and eyes that would make men question their likes and dislikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man looked weak, but his cultivation base aura said otherwise. The man was as least a True Emperor realm expert. That was all he could tell from the aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Who is this person?' Alex wondered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked up to the emperor and took a seat next to him, waiting for him to introduce the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, I will leave you two to talk,\" the Emperor said standing up to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Huh? Talk? What?' Alex was extremely confused, but before he could even say anything, the emperor left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex didn't know what to do now. He felt extremely awkward in front of this person he had never seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Greetings!\" Alex still decided to greet the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man bowed a little towards Alex and said, \"I only recently came to learn about little Ma's passing. My Condolences.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"T-thank you,\" Alex said before his eyes narrowed in suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Little Ma?' he thought. 'Aside from Grandmaster, I have only ever heard one person…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, I'm sorry, senior Lai. I recognized you too late,\" Alex said. The man in front of him was Lai Qing, the Royal Alchemist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha, I'm surprised you recognized me at all. I usually have to talk with people for a while before they figure out who I am,\" the Royal alchemist said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thankfully, I recognized you, or our conversation might have been incredibly awkward,\" Alex said. \"Still, I have seen you 3 times now, and each time you have a different face on. Is there a reason?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No particular reason, really,\" the royal alchemist said. \"I was a young man when I got into alchemy and spent nearly 2 centuries trying to hone my skills as an alchemist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the time I was big enough to be given the title of the Royal Alchemist, I realized that I had spent all of my youth tucked away in a room with a fire and a cauldron.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I felt a little regret for losing my youth, so I try to bring it back in any way possible,\" the Royal Alchemist said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Centuries?\" Alex was a little surprised. \"How old are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Me? I… don't know,\" the Royal Alchemist said. \"I should be a little more than 400 years now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex was stunned. He had met old people, but none that were this old as a True realm cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's not what you brought me here to speak about, is it?\" he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Alex said. \"I requested your audience so that you could teach me about the Structure and Compositions as you promised.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, I told you to give up last time, didn't I? It's a difficult concept to understand that even Ma Rong would have a hard time understanding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As I said last time, come back to me when you've made a Heaven Grade Tr—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex suddenly put forth a pill bottle next to the Royal Alchemist, stopping him mid-speech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The royal alchemists sniffed the aroma that was coming off of the pill bottle even though it had a stopper on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes widened as he took it. \"What pill is this?\" he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Two-fold Qi Absorption pill,\" Alex said. That was a pill that doubled the speed of cultivation under normal circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Royal Alchemist knew pretty well about this pill. It was a commonly found recipe that almost all True realm alchemists knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that was not the reason he was so surprised. He opened the stopper and took the pill out and looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a light lime-colored pill with uneven spots of red dots all around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Royal Alchemist said nothing and pulled out a Pill Tester and immediately put in the pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fog appeared around the glass of the tester and slowly went up. The Royal Alchemist had a guess about the pill, but no matter how he looked at it, this should not have been real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fog stopped moving and the tester gave the result he was expecting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>51%\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a Heaven Grade True pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You made this?\" the Royal Alchemist asked with wide eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You said that I would be eligible to learn about Structure and Composition once I was able to make a Heaven Grade True Pill, right?\" Alex asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here it is. Now, please teach me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Royal alchemist looked in absolute shock. He had been nearly a hundred years old when he had reached this level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this kid that was in front of him, that wasn't even 20 years old could somehow make such an amazing pill. The Royal alchemist couldn't believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you really make this?\" he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, only 2 days ago,\" Alex said. \"I was hoping you would be okay with this 48% pill I had managed to do about a week ago, but fortunately, I happened to make this 51% pill too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Royal Alchemist heard this and his eyes changed and got serious. \"It seems you were serious about learning it. I guess you have the right to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached into his storage bag and pulled out a small book that looked old and almost torn in places. The outer cover looked new, but everything else did not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is that?\" Alex asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is the book that gave me the knowledge I have today. Everything I am came from this book right here,\" the Royal Alchemist said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everything I am about to tell you is something I learned from this book,\" he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put it forth in front of him, and Alex slowly moved his hands towards it, thinking he was presenting it to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"NO!\" The Royal Alchemist pulled back his hands, his eyes glaring at him fiercely. It took him a second to realize what he was doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He calmed down, the look in his eyes disappearing, and said, \"Sorry about that. This is my holy scripture, and I cannot let anyone else touch it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy scripture?\" Alex asked. \"Does that book contain information about Alchemy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" the Royal Alchemist said. \"I was but a normal cultivator at the start. I was a poor, rogue cultivator that lived his day-to-day life by hunting beasts and selling it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I hadn't accidentally come across this book during one of my hunts, I would have never been able to reach the heights I have reached today,\" the royal Alchemist said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it called?\" Alex asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know. The outer cover was burned off, so I could never learn its name,\" the Royal Alchemist said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Outer cover was burned?' Alex thought. There was something in his mind that told him why the outer cover could have possibly been burned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Could it be…' he thought, 'that this book too… came down in the meteor shower?'\u003C\u002Fp>",1424,"2026-05-29T03:37:24.093Z","2026-06-01T04:29:05.147Z",1,"novelbin.me","cb4c6c4613034f493a9b2795922bae95d57d66890569102c9d61de37b5871c65","eternal-cultivation-of-alchemy-chapter-576","eternal-cultivation-of-alchemy-chapter-574",3577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-cultivation-of-alchemy-cover.jpg"]