Chapter 2167 Refine

Chapter 2167 Refine

"I... can't give you anything about the tournament, even if I had anything to give," Silvermist said. "Everything I know about the tournament is supposed to remain secret and I have even made an oath to do so."

Alex had expected as much. He had been concerned about the fairness of the competition if someone could just give away what the contests were going to be. If he were to find out about it, everyone else had to as well.

"There is no decision made just yet either," Silvermist said. "Our task there was to simply brainstorm some ideas to be given to the Alchemy God later on. Once he receives those ideas, he will decide which ones to set up. At that point, I will have to go there again and help them."

"Did you give any good ideas?" Alex asked him.

"I did," Silvermist said proudly. "I had a rather good epiphany during one of the days and gave them a detailed explanation of what the contest should be about. I hope they choose it."

Alex saw his master's excited look. "But... you can't tell me what it is, right?" he asked.

"For fairness' sake, no," Silvermist said. Alex nodded. He didn't ask for more. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Come, let's go see how difficult it is for you to make those 18 pills. Since you've learned as much, I now have to start teaching you things as well."

Alex gave a surprised look. "You are going to teach me something, master?" he asked.

"Yes," Silvermist said. "I can't have you call me master while I do absolutely nothing. I have 2 things to teach you before the tournament starts. Hopefully, you can learn them by then."

Alex walked to the alchemy room, excited the whole way through as to what his master was going to teach him. For a moment, he even wondered if it could have something to do with Pill Souls, but then quickly remembered that Pill Souls could only be made with Divine pills, so that was most certainly not it.

"Metal is a good one that is easily found," Silvermist said. "There are other non-organic items that usually form after many years of energy being concentrated into one spot, like a rock or crystals. Those can be good too, although they are a bit more rarer. There are spirit waters and other liquids that you may find. Those can be good too."

Alex quickly noted everything down in his mind. "When you say metal, do ores in general work too?" he asked.

"Ores work, but you know what works better?" he asked.

Alex shook his head. "What, master?"

"Weapons and artifacts!" Silvermist said. "Get some old weapons, ones that were used by strong cultivators, meaning the refined ones. Then melt those in your cauldron and refine it yourself until the energy within it releases, turning it into a regular metal. You cannot pull every bit of energy out of it, but what you can will be a lot of help."

Alex nodded quickly, thinking about the many ways he could do this thing. There was the scythe in his Soul Space from the First Elder of the Poison Fighters Sect that he had wanted to auction off but had never had the time to sell it. There were also many other random artifacts lying around that he received from various cultivators he defeated along the way, the most important ones that came to his mind were the items left behind by the sect master of the Poison Fighter's sect when he died.

Alex quickly made plans to refine everything that was not needed within his Soul Space. It wasn't as though there was a need to clear up some space, but it was a good way to clear up the clutter still.

"Oh right, what about Spirit stones? Arguably, they have the highest amount of energy in them, do they not?" Alex asked. Silvermist nodded. "Those can be good too, but it is better if you find items with some element to it as the cauldron should get used to elements more than the energy."

"But I can still use it once in a while, right?" Alex asked.

"Sure, there is no harm there," Silvermist answered.

Alex nodded, quickly adding more things to add into the cauldron when he was free. As he thought, another idea came to mind.

"Master, if we can refine anything to add to the cauldron, can we refine humans too?"