Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy Chapter 1006 Baits

Li Yun grunted in pain with barely opened eyes as Alex carried her towards the hall of Sacred flas.

"I've… never been… this heavily injured… in such little ti," she spoke through her pain.

"Don't speak for now. Wait until you are healed," he said as he walked.

Li Yun didn't say anything else for a while, but her eyes remained on Alex. When they reached the hall and Alex laid her down next to the fire, she finally spoke.

"You're so cute, you know?"

Alex was not expecting that. "Ahem, is that so?" he said.

"Yeah," Li Yun said. "You're so cute. I wish I could kiss you right now."

"Unfortunately, you can't even move your fingers at the mont," Alex said.

"Then you kiss ," she said.

"I'm sorry. You should give up on it," Alex said.

"Why? What's wrong with ?" she asked. "You keep trying to deny for so reason. Surely its not because of our age right? I don't mind if you're too old for . You look young enough. Or are you worried that I might turn old too fast?"

"That's not it," Alex said. "I just don't have the luxury to fall in love at the mont. There are so many things I have still to do and falling in love just… it just makes it hard for when I have one more person to care for. Especially right now, when I'm in a situation where I feel incapable of caring for myself."

"I won't be a burden. I'm sure you can—"

"No," Alex said. "I've made up my mind and I won't change it for a while. As long as I'm not together with everyone I care about, I won't even think about getting into any sort of relationship."

"Well, whatever you say, you can't stop it when your heart says you're in love. As I've said before, I'm sure you'll co around to ," she said with an air of defiance in her voice. She did not believe that Alex could hold on to his beliefs any longer than his heart could.

"I doubt that," he said. "Especially since I plan on leaving this place in a few days."

Li Yun remained quiet after she heard that. She understood that he had many other places to go to look for whatever it was he was searching for. But that didn't make it any easier for her to hear it.

"How about a bet then?" she asked. "I say that we will kiss before you leave."

"Haha, no chance," Alex said.

"That's why it's a bet," she said.

"Okay, what do you want if you win?" he asked.

"Nothing. If I got to kiss you, then I already won," she said. "What do you want instead?"

"Nothing, I guess," Alex said.

"Okay, so the bet itself will be our prize," she said and finally turned around to heal quietly.

Alex didn't know what else to say, so he remained quiet and let her heal. He sat there for a while with her, and once her body was done being healed enough, he finally left.

Once he got outside, he t with the chief who asked him to help his body cultivate next. Alex wanted to refuse, but seeing the old man's enthusiasm for finding soone that could help him, he gave in to the old man's request and helped him.

Fortunately, he didn't have to carry the old man as he did his daughter.

Once he was done, Alex jumped down to the canyon and ran away from the tribe to look at the nearby areas while he waited for everyone back at the tribe to be done with training.

'So much empty space,' Alex thought. He walked to the top of a small hill and looked all around him, but he could see no other sign of humans at all.

He road the area for a while, and after the sun started going down, he finally returned to the tribe.

He was told that he could eat if he wanted, but Alex didn't find that necessary. If anything, after yesterday's al, he wouldn't have to eat for at least 3 more days.

So, instead of eating, he was taken to the hall of sacred flas where everyone started healing. Alex spent a few minutes there and wondered what he would do in the future.

Since there didn't seem to be much to do, he decided to leave this place for a day or two from now. He needed to move on with things as Pearl most likely needed him wherever he was.

He had grown a habit of looking at his left arm from ti to ti just to make sure that Pearl was still alive. He wouldn't know what to do if he looked at his arm and saw that it was empty.

He sighed and thought of leaving the hall early when he saw the chief leave before him. Alex looked at him leave quietly and wondered what he was doing, leaving the hall so soon.

He let out his senses and kept track of him to see where he was going this early on. When he saw the chief taking away people who were clearly very weak away from this place, he started growing concerned.

'Wait, are they…?' he rembered sothing Li Yun had told him when he had just t her. If not her slave, the best thing he could be would be bait for the beasts.

Without even thinking, Alex leaped away from where he was sitting and went outside. He followed the chief and quickly arrived at the southern end of the tribe where there was a fence made up of beast bones.

"Chief, what the hell are you doing?" he asked.

"Hmm? Oh, we were thinking of getting killing so beasts today, nothing more," the chief said.

"And you're going to sacrifice these people for that?" he asked angrily.

"Sacrifice? What do you an?" he asked.

"Aren't you going to put them in harm's way just to lure the beasts?" Alex asked.

"Uh… yeah, but what else can we do?" the chief asked.

"Why not put yourself up there?" Alex asked.

"Sigh, that doesn't work. The beasts seem to be able to tell when soone isn't strong. Maybe it is our scent or sothing. They will only co if we let the weaker folks be the bait," the chief said.

"And you are willing to kill these people for that?" Alex asked.

"Wait, what are you talking about?" the chief asked. "Why would these people die?"

Alex was taken aback by the response. "Aren't they going to die if you let the beasts co for them?" he asked.

"Well, yes, but we'll be right here to save them. We're only luring the beasts, not feeding them," the chief said. "Our intention is to kill the beats before they can even get close enough. Who gave you the idea that we were going to let them die?"

Alex thought for a bit and sighed. "Dammit, your daughter made it sound like becoming a bait was a horrible thing and that I should instead be her slave when we first t. I thought she was being genuine, but turns out she only wanted to accept her condition," he said.

"Hahaha, you nearly fell for it. Were you not stronger, you would've beco my son-in-law by now," the chief said.

Alex said nothing. He shook his head and forgot about it. "How long does it usually take for the beasts to co?" he asked.

"We're not sure," the chief said. "It really depends on if the beasts are nearby. If they are, with the night wind, it should carry these people's scent far enough that they can sll them and co for them."

Alex instantly let out his spiritual sense and saw over 8 kiloters around him. His spiritual sense had improved thus far after entering the 8th Saint Condensation realm.

It would've continued to improve even more if he could cultivate, or even if he could just use his mask. Unfortunately, he had lost it already, along with all the other items he had.

Alex felt sad every ti he rembered that as well. He didn't care about many of the items he had lost. He didn't even care about the World Tree's seed or the seed of the Yang fruit.

He didn't care about the hamr or sword or the new cauldron he lost. If anything, he could make them again once he found a way to return to the Northern continent.

What he did care about was the broken shards of the cauldron that his master had given him.

What he did care about was the beast core that belonged to Pearl's mother, which he had been waiting for the right ti to give him.

Those were the things he was truly concerned about, and yet, he had lost it all.

Alex sighed once more and enhanced his spiritual sense. He spread it beyond his limit, reaching 12 kiloters after straining a bit.

"There is a group of giant rats about 7 kiloters in that direction, a rather large snake about 10 kiloters in that direction, and there is a desert hyena pack, that is wandering aimlessly about 12 or so kiloters in that direction," Alex said. "If they truly can sense these people, then they should sense them pretty quickly."

The people around him were surprised. "How can you tell?" the chief asked with a surprised look as well.

"Spiritual sense, I explained before, rember? It allows to— Oh," Alex's senses pulled away his attention. "The rats seem to have caught on to their senses."