"Oh my god! You’re finally here!"
Scarlet scread in happiness when she saw the three. She flew out of her room the mont the door opened, taking all three into her embrace.
Alex felt the warmth of her fiery body and embraced her back.
"Sister!" Whisker cried out as he climbed onto her and hugged her neck.
Pearl smiled brightly as well, happy that the four were finally together.
Scarlet kept them in her embrace for a while before finally letting go. "What took you guys so long? I heard you ca here months ago."
"We did, but we had so things to do before we could co find you," Alex said.
"More important than ?" she asked with a pout.
"Well, we’ll leave you to decide that," Alex said. "I had to wait for my Master to go through her Immortal Tribulation. Pearl had to talk to the White Tiger Patriarch, and then he had to go to the Azure Dragon Palace to talk to the other Patriarch. Those three pretty much took all of our ti."
Scarlet paused for a mont. "Okay, maybe it was more important," she said. "But wait, your Master?"
Alex smiled. "We have so much to catch up on."
Scarlet let Alex and the rest into her room where they could chat freely. She then turned to her grandfather and bowed. "Thank you for saving him from Mother. Was she going to kill him?" she asked.
Feng Ningzhu chuckled. "She might have tried to if I didn’t make it there in ti," he said. "But don’t worry, she’s been persuaded."
Scarlet turned to her mother. "I told you so, Mother. He’s talented. You just had to give him a chance."
"Fine, fine," Scarlet’s mother said. "Now go talk with your friends. I’ll have the servants bring so refreshnts."
Scarlet grinned with great delight and went back into the room.
Alex looked around the room, surprised how almost everything was bare and made out of Sun Stones. "Phoenixes must not be a vain creature," he said out loud.
Scarlet gave an awkward smile. "We are. My mother just took away everything as punishnt."
Alex raised an eyebrow. "Have you been trapped in this room since you returned?" he asked.
"More or less," Scarlet said. "Mother lets out when I ask her to, but she stays by my side at all tis, so I much rather prefer just staying here."
Alex nodded slowly, focusing on her cultivation base. "Have you not had the ti to cultivate or what? You’re only in the Immortal Origin Realm."
"Hmph! Speak for yourself. You left the lower realm much earlier than I did. How co you’re only just as strong as ?"
"Well... that is a long story," Alex said.
"Tell . I’ve been dying to hear what you’ve been doing all this ti. I really need to know what took you so long to co here," Scarlet said.
Alex nodded and began explaining what he had been doing since he left the lower realm upon becoming an Immortal.
He started with the Fighting Poison Guild and how that turned out to be a Demonic Sect. Then he spoke of his ti where he opened the Dawn Apothecary, followed by him joining the Blue Silk Sect.
After that, he spoke of eting his Master, Silvermist, who took him to the dicine World, where he participated in the Alchemy Tournant that he won.
Then, he spoke about being sent to Hell, and his ti there, how he managed to survive and ended up finding the tree. Then he explained how he got out of Hell, but ended up being stuck in a place where he lost his mories.
In the end, he finally escaped that place but lost a lot of ti in the process.
And finally, he ca to the Land of the Blessed Sun because that was the only way to leave the lower realm.
Scarlet was left in awe for a long while after Alex was done speaking. "You... went through all of that in such a short ti?" she asked. "And you even lost a thousand years on top of that?"
Alex shrugged. "If not, we would’ve likely co here around the ti you guys left the lower realm," he said. "And most likely, I would’ve been so much closer to the Divine Realm."
"Well, at least we’re close in cultivation now," Scarlet said. "You two are a little further ahead than , but it won’t be long before I catch up. My Origin is already about done being filled with my Phoenix Fla aura, so I will breeze through the next Realm."
Alex’s face changed suddenly and so did both Pearl’s and Whisker’s. Bai Jingshen sighed a little, shaking his head.
Scarlet felt confused by the reaction. "What? Did I say sothing wrong?"
"You missed a great opportunity, that’s all," Bai Jingshen said.
"What opportunity?" Scarlet asked.
"Did you really choose Phoenix Flas to be your Creation?" Alex asked.
"Yes," Scarlet said. "It’s flas left behind by our progenitor. It’s quite strong, so almost everyone makes it their Creation. Is there sothing wrong with that?"
Alex sighed. He pulled out the Provenance Duality: Division technique and handed it to her before explaining what she had missed.
Scarlet read through the talisman and listened to Alex’s explanation. As she did, her eyes slowly widened at the things that were said.
"You... you have more than one Origin?" she asked.
"I have eight," Alex said.
"I have four," Pearl added.
Whisker lowered his head. "I only have two."
Scarlet began panicking. "How... how was I supposed to know I had to wait?" she said. "I even spent years consolidating my cultivation base just to make sure my rebirth hadn’t made things worse. I... what do I do now?"
Bai Jingshen shrugged. "There is nothing you can do," he said. "Unless you can be reborn again, there is no way."
"I can’t," Scarlet said. "I will die."
"No," Alex intervened. "That’s not the only way."
He quickly went through his Soul Space and found what he was looking for. The reward for him winning the Alchemy Competition.
The Second Chance Pill.
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