Alex walked out of the palace hall and walked along the white corridor with the new information running through his mind.
The sword that he was unable to use for the longest time belonged to the royal family of the Eastern Continent, the royal family being antagonistic towards Pearl and his mother for some reason, and the fact that he had a teleportation talisman that could help him leave so long as it was active again.
These were all information that he wasn't sure how he felt about it. At least, they were information about stuff that was way out of his reach for him right now.
"Sigh, I should just go back and wait for the alchemy room to be made. There really is nothing to do around here, isn't it? I can't even visit the library," Alex thought.
"Well, since it's still afternoon, I should just go and— Huh?" Alex was surprised when he noticed something.
"It happened again?" he said with a face full of shock. He looked at the time on the right and had noticed that it was now 4 in the afternoon.
"But it was barely noon when I entered that room. How did the time— oh right, the Palace Hall did have time dilation formation in it," Alex thought as he remembered. "Damn, is it always like this? I should be careful where I go then."
Alex was still in shock at the time changing, so he quickly went back to the room that was assigned to him, and logged out.
He went out of the capsule and checked the time. As expected, it was indeed 4 pm. "Wow, how did the change in time in the game affect me in the real world as well?" he wondered.
He wasn't hungry or needed to use the bathroom, so he quickly went back into the capsule and logged in.
While the change in time had surprised him once more, he decided to do something else to take his mind off of them.
He brought out a monster core, one belonging to that of a Mind Tempering 4th realm beast, and consumed it.
After reaching Mind Tempering, the beasts seemed to always have a soul in the cores regardless of which ones he had.
Still, Alex's own spiritual sea was far stronger than what the Mind Tempering beasts could really be, so he had no difficulty in killing it.
The spiritual sea beneath him was so vast and dense, that he could keep on using techniques after techniques and it wouldn't deplete in the slightest.
After killing the beast in his spiritual sea, the yellow fog once more consumed both him and the beast, and he got the Qi from the beast.
"I finally have enough to break through to the next realm huh?" he thought. "Although, it wasn't very long ago that I did breakthrough, so I probably should wait a little longer."
Alex decided to keep the breakthrough aside for now, and checked his storage bags. There was 1 more 4th Mind Tempering realm beast's core, and another one belonging to a 5th Mind Tempering realm beast.
Since he had gone to the forest for hunting when he only had Mind Tempering 1st realm cultivation base, he couldn't kill anything stronger than those at the time. Thus, these were the highest cores he had for now.
"Sigh, these should help me get to the 5th Mind Tempering realm, but after that, I will be in trouble," Alex thought. "Collecting Qi through normal cultivation will take me months. Even with using pills to assist in it. Sigh, no wonder the everyday cultivators cultivate so slow."
The normal cultivators could do the exact same thing the players did. That was to sell what they can gather through trade or hunting, and buy themselves pills that increased their Qi.
Alex couldn't help but wonder why they didn't do that. There must be a reason why only players could increase their cultivation base so fast, despite the normal cultivators having a headstart.
"Is using pills to get stronger considered wrong? It couldn't be that they just never thought about it, right?" Alex thought. "I should have asked the master what would happen if people only consumed pills to breakthrough."
"Now that I think about it, I might have to do the same thing, won't I?" he thought. However, he immediately thought otherwise. "No, as a Mind Tempering realm cultivator, pills won't help me as monster cores will. I will still have to stick to the cores, I guess."
With nothing else to do, Alex called out Pearl and got onto his bed. He let Pearl start cultivating, and slowly, he too started doing it.
Before he knew it, he had fallen into a trance and fell unconscious.
Slowly, his consciousness returned back to him as he woke up from sleep. He looked up at the time and realized that it was 6 am in morning.
His True Qi had returned to him at 50% once more and he could feel himself getting just a little bit stronger.
"I should go train a bit so that I can breakthrough again," he thought.
"Ah right, if someone comes, open the door and tell them I am cultivating, okay? If the person who came is any of the 4 from yesterday, then you can leave with them," Alex said to Pearl.
He didn't take Pearl back into the beast space since no one was possibly going to harm him in this place. Then, sat in his cultivating position and logged out.
He got out of the capsule and freshened up before going out to the kitchen. Emily was already up, preparing breakfast for them all.
"You know you don't have to wake up this early to make us breakfast right? We can just have cereals," Alex said.
"Nonsense! Cereals are bad for you. It's better to have bread and eggs," she said.
"Yeah, but you could play the game for a little longer. No need to leave, what is it, 6 in the morning. You need more sleep," Alex said.
Emily stopped after putting the bread in the toaster and sighed. "I have nothing to do in the game, unfortunately," she said.
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