Chapter 450 A kiss
Her mother being poisoned was the truth, but in reality, she could be healed if she abolished her cultivation.
She would have done this if not for what she learned with Edward. They then colluded together, creating a plan to achieve two things: the unification of the Blue Jewel planet and exploration through the rift.
As for MingYue and MingHao, they just hoped both of them would have enough strength to protect themselves. That is why they never gave them anything that would make them stand out.
Instead, they kept all their resources, techniques, and every single piece of their knowledge hidden inside the storage amulet. Both amulets were created by Edward. They utilized a similar mechanism to the one given to Luca.
If Alex had his emotions, he would be shocked by his father's decision. How could he do that? Leaving behind his family like this?
Couldn't he go home with his own soul first, then find a way to recover?
Unfortunately, with Alex's current state, he instead agreed with his father's decision. His soul was crumbling even now; it was only a matter of time before it dissipated.
This was the reason why Luca was in so much pain. She saw everything from Edward's point of view: his feelings, loneliness, pain, his plan that kept progressing despite knowing it only slowed his determined death. Everything almost destroyed her.
If not for Alex's and Emily's presence, she would have already gone without any care, looking for Edward.
His soul was now withheld by an artifact that MingYue's mother had. That was how he survived. Reina's mother also helped in his survival, as she had a unique bloodline that allowed her to nourish someone's soul.
'How should I go about it now? Other than Uncle Silva, Aunt Ariadne and Uncle Kane are here.
Uncle Kane should be the one who controls everything in this field from behind the scenes. As for Aunt Ariadne, she is in the beastman territory.
I told my army to look for both of them, but none of them gave me any report. Instead, they just had some fights with the immortals over spirit qi mines.'
Alex only speculated this based on the group's movement. He hadn't asked for any reports since, in reality, he didn't have much control over them.
What he did before was nothing more than a bluff. With their current difference in strength, he couldn't kill them remotely from a long distance.
That was why he wanted to ask when he was close to them. This way, he could find out which one of them was honest. For those who weren't, Alex planned to kill and absorb their life force.
But with his current situation, he couldn't do anything about it. His mind then focused on breaking through the realm. 'It all comes back to my nature. Am I a human? Or a progenitor? Which one should I use as a core?
But if I choose human, doesn't that mean I will be stuck in this realm for a long time? Just how can I use my human nature to dominate my progenitor side?'
"Alex. What are you thinking?" MingYue called out with a sore voice.
"I'm just thinking about a breakthrough and what we should do next."
"Breakthrough… hmm…. I have some ideas, but they're not logical at all. Want to try it?"
"What do you mean?" Alex was confused by MingYue's suggestion.
"Why must we break through to the next realm? Isn't it better if we just step all over it to become immortal?"
"Is that even possible?"
"Just an inkling of mine. An immortal makes their body from their energy. Since our main source is the life force, isn't it a simple matter to deconstruct everything and reconstruct it using lifeforce energy?
In the first place, we cannot die, so we can test it many times over. So why bother walking it all step by step?"
MingYue locked her gaze again with Alex. Dried tears evaporated into an ice mist as MingYue used her qi to make them disappear. After crying for a while, she felt far better.
Alex started considering her idea, and he felt it made sense. What made up cultivation? Someone's understanding and their being.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
As long as they had the understanding to use the power and recreate their whole being based on the immortal standard, doesn't that mean he could make immortals as much as he wanted?
In Alex's current state, he thought he could create AI that learned how the understanding of energy worked based on every person's individual and personality. As for body formation, as long as he raised his understanding, it was a matter of time until he created one.
A physical body was easy for him now. The question was making one from pure energy, one that could switch state to physical form anytime he wanted. For one with an element, this might be hard to achieve, but for Alex and MingYue, as vampires, they could use blood as the base elemental.
But doing this meant using progenitor as the core of their strength, not their human side. They would use qi and mana to enhance their blood ability.
"That is possible, as long as we do it in the right situation, but not now. It will waste much lifeforce, and we don't know how much we need to achieve it."
"It's fine. It's you. You will always find a way," MingYue said with a small smile.
A smile that made Alex remember their first meeting. Her gaze became more intense as MingYue tiptoed on her feet and then raised her body higher. Her crimson lips became more and more close to Alex, letting him feel her warm breath.
Alex's heartbeat started becoming faster. He started feeling weird, and then, without thinking, his heart moved his body, closing the remaining distance between them.
A soft texture pressed against his lips, making him desire it more.
They pressed against each other, their tongues dancing like swords in the wind, clashing against each other, feeling out each other's being.
Time was frozen for them. It was like the outside world didn't even exist.