Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2312  Complications

"What are you doing? Just change," Pearl said. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Yeah, but how?" Whisker asked.

"What do you mean how? You should know how. It's instinctive. Just… change!" Pearl wasn't the best at explaining it, but Alex felt Whisker should've understood.

Whisker tried to 'just change', but it wasn't working. "I can't do it," he said. "I can't change."

"It's so easy though," Pearl said, showing off his own transformation. His human body glowed brightly for a few moments before it changed shape, growing larger until he was a White Tiger nearly double Alex's height. Momo was unsettled by Pearl's appearance. The size simply scared her quite a bit as he looked so young and weak as a human.

Whisker looked at Pearl and forced himself to change once again. "It's not working," he said after failing once again.

Alex frowned for a moment. "Can you change your size?" he asked.

Whisker tried to do as Alex asked and grew to the size of a human-sized rat. He was barely as big as Pearl was when he was a True realm beast. Whisker shrunk back to the small size he liked to be at.

"I can change as I want, but not become a human," Whisker said.

Alex failed to understand what was going on.

"If I may," Rosemist interjected. "I believe I have a plausible hypothesis for this situation."

Alex and the rest turned around. "Please explain."

"The ability for a beast to turn into a human comes from Heaven," Rosemist explained. "It is a power that the Heaven gives them when they become an Immortal so they can pursue life among the greatest beings in the world, the humans."

"Greatest beings? Humans?" Alex asked. He didn't necessarily think that was the case. Beasts were no less strong or greater than humans in any regard.

"Yes," Rosemist said. "When I say greatest, I do not talk about strength or power. I talk about influence and number. There are more humans in this world than any other major species of life that is intelligent enough to survive together. They grow together and propagate."

"When the beasts used to rule the world, the early humans were given the ability to become a beast upon reaching the Immortal realm. But after the human-made their place in the world, their numbers far beyond any other beast, Heaven considered them the greatest beings, now allowing the beasts to turn into humans."

Alex was taken aback by this information as he had never considered for a moment why beasts or plants were able to turn to humans and not the other way around. It was a fact he never questioned.

"That ability," Rosemist continued, "is given when a beast survives the tribulation to become an Immortal. While Whisker did reach the Immortal realm, he was not the one that fought back against the heavens, so he did not acquire this ability."

"Wait," Alex cut her off. "So what you're saying is Whisker will never be able to turn into a human?"

"I cannot answer for certain as what my explanation of the situation is still only a hypothesis, but sadly I do fear it may be the truth," Rosemist said. She turned to Whisker and added, "I'm sorry if you were looking forward to becoming a human."

Whisker felt dejected. "I suppose it is what it is," he said. "I would've liked to walk alongside my brothers as a human too, but if I can't, that's no problem either."

Alex stopped down and took Whisker into a hug. "You'll always be able to walk alongside us, human or not."

Pearl walked up and added to the hug.

Whisker felt happy.

"Ok, you can't turn into a human, but you did open your Soul Space, right?" Pearl asked.

"Huh? Oh yes," Whisker said. "It's here."

"How big is it?" Pearl asked.

"How big… let me check." Whisker spent some time checking every corner of his Soul Space. "It's not big."

"How small?" Alex asked.

"Only 20 meters," Whisker said.

"Oh… that's small," Pearl said.

"Yeah," Whisker said.

"I wouldn't call it small," Rosemist said. "I would only say that you have an unfair expectation for what a Soul Space should be. 10 meters is what most beasts have. Having 20 meters of Soul Space the moment you are born is quite amazing."

"That's right," Alex said. "Even regular humans don't have a 20-meter Soul Space, and given Whisker has no inclination to Space in any capacity, it is no surprise his Soul Space would be small as well."

"Uhh… I suppose that is true," Pearl said. "That means we need to congratulate Whisker for having an above-average Soul Space."

Whisker's emotions flipped after hearing that he hadn't done so bad after all. He began celebrating with the two and Momo joined in afterward.

After what felt like a while, they finally began descending the mountain.

Now that Whisker had become an Immortal as well, Alex felt as though another one of his burdens had been lessened. There were only so many things he had to do now.

He took his leave with Rosemist and went back to the city where they stayed.

Before going back to their place of residence, Alex made his way toward one of the restaurants where the tournament was being shown. He sat down with the group, ordered a few meals for themselves, and began watching.

The tournament had no upheaval just yet it seemed as if the score was still the same as it was before. Although, he did notice a few changes in the top 50. There were a few new names.

The new points were added, none of which made it into the list. And then, the next set of cultivators was brought onto the stage to take part in the competition.

Alex noticed the orange-haired girl he had met in God's Origin walk onto the stage. 'Oh, it's her,' he thought as her information flashed across the screen around the same time.

Leafheart. Master - Pinkflower. Split Sky Realm.