Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Alex's suggestion for what could be done with Pearl's father's corpse was simple and even quite beneficial for Alex himself and the others. And yet at the same time, it was as though he was trying to take advantage of the Azure Dragon's death.

The two conflicting feelings made it hard for Alex to even suggest this option to Pearl, to begin with, but after hearing that he did not wish to bury his father, he decided to ask Pearl.

Pearl gave a lot of thought to what Alex proposed, not getting angry at him for suggesting what he did. Instead, he decided calm-headedly that maybe that would be the proper thing to do.

In a way, if he were to do this, his father could forever be close to him when he needed him.

With Pearl deciding to do it, Alex gained the confidence to do what had been decided.

So, he began his preparation.

He was now going to feed the Immortal body of the Azure Dragon to the World Tree.

Alex had fed multiple things to the two great plants in his Soul Space by now. Both the World Tree sapling and the Nine Yang Divine tree had fed on plenty of saint human and beast corpses that Alex had gained either in his fight in the ocean or from the war.

They had helped the two plants grow plenty big with the Nine Yang Divine tree almost as tall as him above the root, and the World Tree nearly 10 meters tall even when just a sapling.

Even the Dragon Emperor's corpse had been fed to the World Tree. However, it hadn't given as much result as Alex would've hoped for it to.

He had a feeling that whatever Bai Jingshen had done to take away the Dragon Emperor's 'spirit' had drained the body of a lot of its original energy.

So, the only thing he had left to feed the World Tree that was of any value to it now was the Azure Dragon's body.

Pearl remained inside the Soul Space to watch everything that was going to happen. With the amount of Qi he had in his body, he could survive there for a week or so without any problem, so long as he didn't expend too much energy.

There were 2 tasks that Alex needed to complete before he could feed the Azure Dragon's corpse to the plants.

First, he had to take the Beast Core out. The Azure Dragon's core was still inside his corpse, so before that was fed to the World Tree, it had to be taken out.

That core was the only way remaining for Pearl to speak to his father just once, so Alex was not going to let the World Tree consume it, even if that would be for the better overall.

Secondly, there was the matter of the Soul Space that was inside of the Azure Dragon still. Alex needed to take out whatever treasures there were inside the Azure Dragon too.

So, without much time to waste, he got to it.

Alex started with the Beast Core, trying to take it out from the Azure Dragon's wounded corpse. He sent his spiritual sense into the beast and searched for where the core would be.

On a regular-sized beast, it would be an easy task. But on a beast the size of a small house, it took some time for Alex to find it.

Sending spiritual sense through an Immortal corpse was harder than he had thought it would've been.

Once Alex found the location of the Beast Core, he had to pull it out. But no matter how he willed it, the Beast Core wouldn't come out at all.

In a way, He was supposed to be the god of the world inside his Soul Space. He could move things around with just a thought. But the Beast Core seemed to reject this Intent of his.

It ignored any mental command Alex put on it, as though it had a thought of its own.

Alex realized that the minute impression left behind by the Azure Dragon's Soul was causing this problem. There were two choices left for Alex.

The first was to ask Pearl to help him dig it out, but that choice was immediately thrown out of the window as Alex was not going to make the son desecrate his father's corpse.

So, he had to do it himself.

Midnight blinked out and in of the Soul Space, arriving right next to the Dragon's corpse which Alex tried his best to use to dig out the beast's core.

He pushed Midnight into the Azure Dragon's corpse, trying to make his way inside the corpse. However, Midnight could barely even cut through the hard scales on the dragon's body. There was simply no way for Midnight to pierce through the Dragon's skin.

Alex wondered if he had to pull the corpse out and use his Qi to aid him in this task. He had his Immortal Qi ready to use, so he could do it.

But then he would have to go somewhere else and he did not want to reveal the corpse to any of the beasts in the beast paradise.

Instead, Alex decided to use something else. Something that was in a way much weaker than Midnight, but in some other way, much much stronger.

Alex took the slim sword he owned and sent it close to the Dragon's corpse. This sword was the same sword that he could not use his Qi through, the same one that had been used to trap Godslayer before he had taken over Alex.

The sword was incomprehensibly strong and inconceivably sharp, a treasure that Alex simply did not know what to do with. If it ever accepted Qi, there was a chance he would have never even created Midnight.

But since it did not, it was in a weird state where it was extremely powerful, but also had very few use cases.

Alex used the sword and sent it flying into the Azure Dragon's corpse, successfully piercing the tough scales.

'Finally,' Alex thought and made a larger incision around where he pierced it, large enough that he could now use the sword to pluck out the beast's core from inside.

The beast core that came out was slightly larger than regular beast cores, but not by much.

As it flew out, Alex could finally control it much easier than when it was inside the corpse.

The beast core flew toward Pearl, letting him hold on to it for the moment.

Pearl took the beast core and moved aside. "I will get to meet Father through this, right?" he asked.

"Of course," Alex replied. "As soon as I have enough strength, we should be able to do it."

Pearl nodded with a sad smile.

Alex felt Pearl's sadness through the bond but didn't let it affect him. There was much more to do right now.

He looked toward the Azure Dragon's chest next, feeling a bubble of space inside there without even having to sense it with his spiritual sense.

That was the Azure Dragon's Soul Space, the thing that the Dragon Emperor had fought for.

"Let us see what it was that the Dragon Emperor died for."