Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

The Dragon Emperor immediately felt the terror in his own body as the smell of the poison he sprayed on Alex was enough to get him to feel some prickling in his body.

He was a damn Immortal, and somehow this Level 10 Saint poison was making him feel it. There was a level of danger to this poison, which was why he had been forced to use it.

It was a shame to be certain. He had wanted to learn more from Alex, maybe keep his Soul if he could. But seeing as how the situation had come down to, the Dragon Emperor was now content with killing him and taking the things he had on him.

'I hope the Alchemy god stuff is not something in his mind. That would be a true shame,' the Dragon Emperor thought.

He moved away from Alex, watching his stand in place as the poison landed on him. Any time now, he would fall dead.

'He might have the power of an Immortal, but his body is still that of a saint. His body hasn't been improved by Immortal Tribulation yet,' the Dragon Emperor thought. 'He is sure to—'

Alex shook his head and opened his eyes. There were no whites in his eyes, only blackness, but his purple iris glowed bright and they stared at the Dragon Emperor like glowing gems in an abyss.

Alex stood still, watching the Dragon Emperor.

The Emperor wondered what was happening, why Alex wasn't falling down. He wondered how he could stand still when there had been others who had died just from the scent alone. How could he remain alive for so long?

Alex finally jerked up, his body convulsing slightly before he released a long breath. Then, he took it all back in, taking in a long breath before smiling.

"I dealt with a small part of that when healing my sister, and that had been quite something by itself. To think I would have the privilege of being poisoned by this amount," Alex spoke. "I didn't think how difficult it would be to neutralize it with my current condition. I had to be careful, but I did it."

He looked back at the Emperor with a wide grin. "Did I keep you waiting?" he asked.

"How?" the Dragon Emperor asked, his mind unable to comprehend the reality. "How did you heal that poison? You ate no pill!"

The Dragon Emperor's eyes were wide. Had Alex eaten a pill beforehand meant precisely for this pill? But how could he protect himself so easily? How could he not even feel pain? The poison was supposed to attack his nascent soul specifically. How did you survive that?

The Dragon Emperor wondered, but no answer came.

And he couldn't think for long either.

Alex threw out many swords at the same time, creating more with blood, Qi, and Spiritual energy to add to it

With Midnight at the forefront, the sword formed the 123 Sword Array and launched toward the Dragon Emperor.

Roots grew out from the sky around the Dragon Emperor, rushing toward the incoming sword to slow them down. At the same time, the Dragon Emperor sent out a bolt of bright blue lightning that struck the incoming swords.

In contact with the sword, something weird happened to the woods that had grown out of the air. Before they were even destroyed by the swords, the woods started rotting, dying as they came in contact with the aura around the sword, and the dying wood did little to provide any sort of stoppage for the swords.

Then the lightning bolt and the swords struck each other, creating a large crash that shook the ground.

Alex felt the force of the attack crash back into him, but he kept his focus on the sword and pushed it further.

The sound from the swords continued to be loud as they kept drilling toward the Dragon Emperor, who did his best to stop the sword from reaching him.

When they were too close for comfort, when he began to sense the effect of the attack on his mind, he finally resorted to a stronger attack.

Lightning coalesced around him in an instead, and spread out from him in all directions, sending out a wave of unimaginable power that struck the swords and sent them flying away.

The Dragon Emperor had been forced to resort to a technique that he was only supposed to use when surrounded as it used entirely too much Qi, and that made him angry.

Whatever happened next, he didn't care. He decided to go on the offensive as he couldn't let Alex dictate the flow of the battle.

He rushed toward Alex with his spear just as the many swords arrived back at Alex.

Alex grabbed Midnight from the group of swords, letting the others fly past him as he clashed directly with the Dragon Emperor's spear strike that contained nothing but pure Spear Qi and strength.

Alex's sword held nothing more than his strength and the powerful aura that Godslayer's aid was providing him right at this moment.

The two clashed and the metallic clang made the space around them shatter for a split second. Alex felt the void from where he clashed against the Emperor and quickly pulled back his sword to go for another swing.

The Emperor's eyes widened slightly, unable to understand whether the strength Alex put out came from his current situation, or was his physical strength just as good as well.

They clashed again, and again, with neither of the two overcoming the other person. Then, Alex started pouring Sword Aura into his attacks, to try and hurt the Dragon Emperor.

The Dragon Emperor launched a lighting bolt from right in front of Alex, and Alex teleported immediately, arriving behind the Dragon Emperor as he used his next slash.

The slash landed on the Dragon Emperor's back, hurting him, but not wounding him far too much.

The Dragon Emperor felt the pain of the strike but got right back into the battle. The two of them fought, and where they fought the ground turned to rubble.

The glorious capital of the Azure Empire had long since been destroyed in the war, but the fight between two Immortal-level figures simply pulverized what had previously only been somewhat broken.

Alex used every power he had in his arsenal at the moment except for his Yang attacks, which barred him from using the Yang Palm technique, his ability to hide himself from his senses, and his doppelganger technique.

Because Godslayer aided him with his Death and Darkness aura, which currently rushed throughout his entire body, he was unable to use anything that required Yang Qi, as it would completely weaken Godslayer's power.

Even the poison he had to deal with earlier, it had taken him time to destroy it as he had to specifically target them with what little Yang Qi he could use in his body without weakening Godslayer's help.

As the fight continued, with the Dragon Emperor being wounded multiple times, Alex heard Godslayer's words in his mind.

"You have to finish this quickly. There is not much time," he spoke. "I'm already running out of what I have gained. Any more and it will be reduced permanently from me again."

"You have to finish this quickly."