1892 About Time

Alex felt something stirring space far away. Upon closer inspection, he could feel that it was the same feeling he had the last 3 times he had been near an Immortal breakthrough.

That was to say, someone was trying to break through to Immortality right then.

26 years had passed since Hannah and the others left, and this was the first Immortal breakthrough since then.

Alex had been training his Intent at the moment while feeding Qi to the two trees when he sensed this, so he moved away, waiting for the result of this attempt.

Sometime later, the Immortal breakthrough ended and the world returned to normalcy again. It would take a while before he would find who it was that had made the attempt, and what the result of it was.

Alex sensed the inverted maelstrom opening far away, the disturbance in space being very clear to his senses. The result of the attempt was apparent to him now.

A month later, news came as to who it was.

The person that had broken through was surprisingly Sarah, the leader of the 8th Talon Legion battalion, the woman Alex had met back in the Martial Transcendent realm all those years ago.

'She broke through, huh?' Alex thought. 'Good for her.'

Her ascendance did little to motivate him or deter him from what he had been doing. So, he went back to training once again.

Within the next decade, Alex managed to reach the peak of Body Cultivation possible in this world without becoming an Immortal. After reaching that strength with his body, Alex did not need to train with it, so he only focused on training his Sword Domain and Intent.

The training for both went smoothly, with little trouble. He was especially managing to hone in his Sword Domain, which he hadn't realized would be this incredibly difficult.

Sword Domain was definitely on a level way beyond Sword Aura.

Alex was at a stage with his Sword Domain where he could now target up to 10 different individuals to either be focused on more of them or be left alone completely.

Finally, his training to improve his Intent was going slowly, but smoothly. Now, he could remove Intent from a batch of Qi in the tail of up to 5 meters in diameter.

And all of those Qi had been slowly going into Alex's Soul space, feeding both the Yang tree and the World Tree.

The Yang tree was now up to 10 meters tall, growing rapidly in the last decade or two, surpassing its original height that Alex had seen on the shores of the desert in the north of the Western Continent.

There were no fruits budding at the moment, and yet the tree itself glowed brightly like the sun itself at a close distance.

The Yang tree had grown large, but in comparison to the World Tree, it had hardly grown at all.

The World Tree saw such a massive increase in size that Alex found it almost unbelievable. It had barely grown when eating the Immortal corpse of the Azure Dragon, and yet, now it had reached up to 35 meters tall. That was nearly triple its initial height.

The constant siphoning of Qi and feeding it to the trees had shown tremendous improvement in them while also improving his own Intent.

Alex continued doing that until he showed little improvement.

During that time, he had sensed 3 other people ascending to the Immortal realm, all of whom he thought were Players.

The first of the 3 was a young man by the name of Charlie, whom Alex had never heard about before.

The 2nd person was a woman he had only met once in the Ice Mist Palace, who went by the name of Su Railin. Alex remembered her being there the day he learned the Dao of Yin.

Finally, the last person was the prime disciple of the Heavens Cleaver sect, Mu Zhenqiu.

Alex assumed the last one was a player as well, but it was difficult to tell with his name.

Alex heard people talking to each other during each time these people broke through and left. There were always some that brought him up. Some believed that he had already broken through and left, while some believed a cultivation problem had killed him.

However, each time another person ascended, the talk about him got less and less. It came to the point when the 5th person after Hannah broke through and left, he wasn't even brought up.

Time was certainly the method to bring obscurity upon himself. That and widespread news of his death. All done, in the end, for those two trees.

50 years passed since Hannah's departure, and quite a few more people broke through to Immortality and left. It was beginning to become such a commonplace, that people didn't even talk about it much. They were used to it by now.

During this period, Hao Ya reached its peak as well and began breaking through. Soon, she reached the Immortal realm as well and left the world, going to find her master.

That was the only time Alex left the Central Continent at all.

Alex finally reached a point where he just couldn't keep going. There was little incentive for him to continue doing what he was in the Qi barrier.

That, and the trees had reached a point where if he didn't tend to them quickly in some manner, they would most likely die. Alex had to do something, and he had trouble figuring out what exactly.

After a long thought, Alexcame to a conclusion.

He needed to do something for the trees, something he had been meaning to do for nearly 70 years now, but also got sidetracked or simply felt that it wasn't as necessary.

However, the time had come now, and there wasn't anything more he could do.

But, to do something this big and possibly very dangerous, he needed to be stronger. Stronger than he was right now.

Despite his training being in body, sword, and Intent, Alex hadstillcontinued his Qi cultivation, and thus in the past 50 years, he had already reached the peak of the Saint Transformation 9th realm.

So, if he wanted to become stronger, there was only one thing he had left to do.

He needed to become an Immortal.

"It is time for me to break through as well," Alex told the snake. "Will you be alright if I leave you alone?"

"I can't follow to watch you, and there won't be much time left for you to come see me after you break through," the snake said. "So… I suppose this is goodbye then."

"This is goodbye," Alex said and gave a bow. "Thank you for all the help, senior."

"The pleasure was all mine, young brother. I will soon leave this world as well, in about 800 years. I'll see you in my realm then."

Alex smiled back. "I'll see you in the Immortal realm." He then took out the small metal disc from his Soul Space and teleported out.

He teleported back into the backyard of the palace in the Southern Continent, from where he let everyone know what he was planning to do.

It was his turn to leave this world.