1881 More Blood

Alex walked out of the dome, carrying with him an urn. Within the urn were the ashes of the person he had just experimented on.

He could not send the corpse back to the person's family, all flayed and missing spiritual roots, so instead he chose to give them a funeral and have the ashes delivered to the family.

The family consented to this from the very start when their dying were registered to the house for the dying, so they would have no qualms with this.

Alex handed over the urn to one of the people waiting for him and walked away.

Following him, Linlin walked out as well and began reporting.

"We have an influx of people donating their blood, Your Majesty. Letting the Saints of other continents donate their blood as well was a good idea, but the amount of pills you need to make had increased by a lot."

"How many do I need to make?" Alex asked.

"8700 for this month," Linlin mentioned.

Alex paused. "I'm sorry, what?" he turned around. "8700? How?"

"Many saints came from all around the world, Your Majesty. Your pills are very popular worldwide," Linlin said with a somewhat proud smile.

Alex couldn't help but frown a little hearing that. He was supposed to be losing fame all around the world to slowly fade into obscurity. Instead, he was becoming more and more well-known.

'This isn't good,' he thought. 'I will have to deal with it somehow soon.'

"The people that came were quite strong too. Nearly half of them were in Saint Soul realm or above," Linlin mentioned.

Alex stopped and turned around. "That many? There must be a lot of blood then."

"Yes," Linlin said and brought out the Bottomless Jade Flask. "This is how much we've gathered this month."

Alex took back his flash and peered inside. To his surprise, there were nearly 20 thousand liters of pure blood.

"No repeaters, correct?" Alex asked.

"None who have donated in the past 3 months were allowed to donate again," Linlin said.

Alex couldn't help but feel excited thinking about all the blood. "I might actually end up reaching the 9th realm with this."

Since he began accepting blood half a year ago, Alex had managed to go from the peak of Saint Transformation 7th realm to the peak of Saint Transformation 8th realm with all the blood he had gathered.

With the flask full of blood in his hand, he hoped to go to the realm beyond. Alex couldn't help but wonder what would happen when he reached the peak of Saint Transformation 9th realm with Blood Aura too.

Would it by any chance trigger a Lightning tribulation?

He had heard about how there came a point where even through Body Cultivation, one could become an Immortal. He had asked Bai Jingshen and Senior Yang about this and learned that at a certain point, one could not go further without becoming Immortal.

To become an Immortal, one of course had to bring down an Immortal tribulation, which even Body Cultivators could. Alex wondered if that was the same with Blood aura as well.

Graham had learned of this too, and had long since stopped improving his body, focusing only on his cultivation base. He was close to reaching the Saint realm now, and would within the year.

He hadn't stopped cultivating his body because of the fear of becoming an Immortal, but because at the end of the day, one still needed to learn a Dao to become an Immortal, which Graham had yet to do.

So, beyond a certain point, there was simply no improvement when trying to body cultivate, which forced Graham to stop.

Until he learned a Dao, there was no point in doing that, and as such he focused on his Qi cultivation instead.

Alex already knew about what happened when one reached the peak of the Saint Transformation realm in strength with Spiritual energy or Sword Intent. He had asked those questions before.

One simply had to wait to become an Immortal some other way before they could advance on that route.

'I'll have to ask Scarlet about it later.'

None of Alex's family were in the palace at the moment.

After Lilin's arrival many years ago, with her husband and young daughter, the palace had grown quiet with everyone doing their own thing.

As such, to bring some join into their life, Helen had decided that it would be a good idea for them to go on a vacation around the world.

So, every member of his family and friends in the palace, except him, had left to go travel all the other continents. From what Alex understood, they had gone to the Northern Continent first, where Alex had advised the ones with Fire Spiritual root to improve it in the 13th Volcano.

After that, Helen had mentioned that they would be heading over to the Western Continent, where Helen wanted to say her final goodbye to her master and members of her sect as she wouldn't be visiting them ever again.

He had been notified some time ago that they were going to head there soon. He wondered if they already had.

"I'll go make use of this blood," Alex told Linlin. "Then I'll have to start making pills."

He sighed as he thought of the numbers. "I might have to spend 3 weeks making this pill. I will barely get any break."

"Should we ask them to stop?" Linlin asked.

"No, I'll let you know when to stop. I need to keep this going for some more time." Alex stored the flask in his Soul Space. "You can go back to work. I'll see you later."

"Actually,Your Majesty," Linlin quickly spoke. "There is one more thing. Your aunt is back from the Eastern Continent, and says that she wants to talk to you."

Alex paused. "Is it urgent?"

"No, but it did sound important."

Alex nodded. "Thank you. I'll visit her first then."

Alex headed toward his aunt's room, arriving there sometime later.

"Why is your cultivation speed so slow? Wasn't it fast before?" Liz asked the moment she saw Alex.

"It is fast by comparison," Alex chuckled as he answered. "I'm taking my time. That's why it is slow. And it appears I should congratulate you on entering Saint Transformation as well."

"Yes, I did," Liz said excitedly.

"So, what is the important talk you wanted to have with me? I was about to go into closed cultivation for about a month," Alex said.

"I heard everyone is out touring the world. You will have to call them back soon, or have them go to the Eastern Continent."

"Why is that? Is something happening there? Something to do with sister?"

"Yes," Liz said. "Her birthday is coming up in about half a year, and she wants to celebrate it."

"Okay…"

Nobody celebrated anybody's birthday in the cultivation world. Alex wasn't entirely sure why Hannah would want to. "Is there a reason why she wants to celebrate it?"

"Of course," Liz said. "Once she got to go back to the Central Continent, she did some calculations and found out that her next birthday is her 100th birthday."

"So, she intends to celebrate her 100th birthday with all her family."

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