Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2093  Darkness

Alex rushed back into battle. It was a miracle he could keep up with Teng Zhengmian, partly thanks to Godslayer, partly thanks to his Demon Eyes. Thanks to the two, he wasn't getting hit with every attack.

The shield could take at most 2 more attacks, so Alex needed to leave it for some stronger attacks. The man was using his chains for now, and Alex felt he could dodge it if he timed the teleportation right.

The chain came at him like a whip and Alex teleported. He swung even as he arrived, using a strong attack.

The man reacted in time, using a defensive technique to stop the attack. He had been cut by the attack before, so he didn't plan on getting cut up again. He was done with that.

He pulled the chain back, striking at Alex again, but Alex teleported outside of his attack's range. The man's attack landed on empty land, destroying a massive chunk of it.

"Damn you! Stay still so I can kill you!" he shouted, using the chains once more. He attacked and Alex teleported.

Alex teleported around a bit, trying to get a hit in when he could, but the man was getting used to his attacks. He was wary of the teleport even before Alex managed to do it, and began attacking when he thought Alex would arrive at.

He couldn't sense Alex's teleportation aura, so all he could do was attack at random. One of the few times, he predicted correctly.

Alex had just arrived when he swung his chain around him, striking Alex right through his arm. The attack not only crushed Alex's arm but also crushed his chest and nearly bisected him.

Had it not been for his strong body, his currently strong Qi, or even just the blood armor he had been wearing underneath, he would've likely died.

Alex smashed into a few trees that were at the edges of the barrier, smashing into the barrier itself before coming to a stop. He slammed onto the ground, but even by that point his body was already healing.

His Qi was working overtime to fix his body. The ribs healed as he got back up and the arm rebuilt itself at the same time as well. Alex grabbed Midnight once more and got ready to fight.

Teng Zhengmian was stunned seeing the situation. He could not imagine how Alex could heal so fast. Was it one of the many pills he had seen the young man consume before?

Alex wasted no time getting back into the fight, attacking from a distance. His attacks were now weaker as he couldn't use Sword Domain through his attacks since they only worked in a certain area around him. But it did save him from accidentally being killed, so for now, he had to stay away.

The man tried fighting Alex while he was all around him and found it incredibly difficult to fight him, especially when he couldn't find any more patterns to his attacks.

He couldn't tell how Alex was teleporting around so much, considering he had built up a formation that contorted space from letting him escape. If he could do this, what if he had a way to run away when the time came?

'I can't waste any more time,' the man thought and took a deep breath.

Suddenly, the world seemed to darken around the man, as if he had shut down the sky itself. Then, something appeared behind him, a gray skull with eyes that seemed to suck in the world around it.

Alex felt something on his body as the skull arrived and knew he had to defend himself against the Spirit of this man. He activated the Spirit Reversal technique, stopping the technique from attacking him.

He had to stop himself from moving temporarily to activate the technique and then use his Intent to keep it active. If he lost focus here, the Spirit's attack, which was also based on Intent, would worm its way through to him, attacking him.

He could not let himself get targeted by it at the moment.

The man saw this and realized what Alex was doing. He couldn't tell what the technique was, but he could recognize the fact that his Spirit was being blocked completely.

He kept the Spirit active, which actively drained his Spiritual energy, but that was required if he wanted to kill Alex. At the same time, he swung his chain, trying to grab onto Alex with it.

Alex teleported randomly, not caring about where he arrived or how high he arrived. He relied on the Dao rather than himself at the moment as his focus needed to be on the technique to fend off the Spirit.

"Kid!" Godslayer's voice came through in an urgent shout. "We're in luck."

"What?" Alex asked, teleporting to another location. "What do you mean?"

"It's Darkness!" he said. "That man's Spirit is a form of Darkness."

"Okay? How are we in luck?" he asked. "Can you make use of what is happening?"

"Yes!" Godslayer said excitedly. "Can you do with it what you did to those Qi surrounding your home?"

"My… oh! You want me to strip the Intent of the energy?" Alex asked. He teleported around, dodging the attacks, but as his focus was on defending himself, he couldn't properly fight back.

"Yes! Exactly. Do that, and I can use it."

Alex frowned. If Godslayer was weak at the moment, he would be targeted by the man's Spirit. And seeing the skull, it couldn't be anything great at all.

"Trust me, kid! It will work," he said. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Alex took a deep breath and felt how much more Qi he had within him. He was bound to not last more than a minute or two at the current pace as Godslayer would consume everything within him to empower him.

He had his teleportation dial on him as a last resort, but he wasn't yet sure if he could even use it given the current barrier situation. So, the true last resort he had was Pearl and Bai Jingshen.

Since both of his last resorts were completely irrelevant to how weak he was at the end, he decided to go for it.

"Alright," Alex said. "I trust you."

He put down his technique, no longer stopping the attack from landing on him. But he did keep up his Intent and did what he could to strip the authority away from the man's attack.

Alex suddenly felt something deathly and toxic enter his body. His body acted instantly to stop it from working, but he forced it back.

"Godslayer… it's all up to you now."

"Leave it to me!" Godslayer had his tendrils flowing throughout Alex's upper body, both on the surface and on the inside, which was how he was pushing his Death and Darkness aura to corrupt his body into producing strength that did not exist.

Using those very tendrils, he reached the parts where the deathly toxic was spreading throughout Alex's body. The thing wasn't entirely Darkness, but most of it was. He knew how strong Alex's body was, so he knew it would be safe to leave the remaining within his body.

All he had to do now was take away the Darkness.