Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 2143: The Other Side

The Eclipsing Heaven had half-turned around at this point with the side where people lived beginning to experience morning. The soft glow of the atmosphere that domed around the realm scattered a few rays of light toward them, letting them see what it was.

The scene itself was amazing incredible, but it was the rest of the realm that fully caught Alex’s attention at that point.

The Eclipsing Heaven realm was not thin by any means. Alex had thought of realms as similar to plates, maybe thicker, with people living on one side, and the other side being empty.

He was correct that it was empty everywhere else. What he was not correct about was the thinness of the realm.

The realm was by no means thin at all. In fact, it could even be considered quite thick.

He had heard realms being described as tumbling pieces of rock in space, but never had he realized that those descriptions were literal. They truly were just giant pieces of solid rock with irregular shapes, with one relatively flat side. That was where people lived.

In comparison, the side where people lived would account for maybe a third of the total surface area. The rest of it was just rocks.

“That… how is that…”

“It looks crazy, doesn’t it?” Silvermist asked. “Impossible even. Like someone just reached into the ground and picked a piece of it, placing it safely in this space.”

“The realms make no sense by any means of imagination,” Grimsight added. “The only reason we know they are like that is because of life.”

“life?” Alex asked.

“Places without life in the space never look like this. Those giant realms with no atmosphere, are always so much more spherical than this, crushed with their own weight. But it is only the ones with life where the world isn’t crushed away like that, despite being dozens of times larger than them.”

Alex frowned. ‘Spherical realms?’ he thought. This sounded very close to the planets he had heard Senior Yang talk about. The world where his people came from. Was the place called Earth within this realm?

‘No, that’s supposed to be another world entirely,’ Alex thought. “Master, did you say places with no life are the only spherical ones?”

“Yes,” Silvermist said. “Only the big ones though. I think it has something to do with their gravity. The smaller ones are irregularly shaped, like the realms with life.”

Alex frowned. “How does life affect the shape of a realm?” he asked.

Silvermist shrugged. “We do not know really,” he said. “We only know that it does.”

“Can it not be Qi?” Alex asked. “Maybe it is the Qi that is doing that.”

“That is possible,” Silvermist said. “But then there are Mortal realms out there that have no Qi that still have an irregularly shaped world with humans living on just one flat surface. It does not make sense for it to be Qi.”

Alex was stumped at that knowledge. “Then how does it work?” he asked.

Silvermist simply shrugged. “That is one of the great mysteries of the world. Who knows why things are the way they are.”

Alex turned to look at Grimsight, but he shrugged too.

“Does nobody know?” he asked.

“If you end up meeting a god, ask them,” Silvermist said as a joke. “They might know.”

Alex was speechless.

That definitely wasn’t happening anytime soon. He ignored his master for the moment and looked back at Eclipsing Heaven, at the irregular piece of rock that floated in the empty space.

It slowly turned around, the back of it being hard to see as it was all in the shadow. Even after knowing what he was looking at, he still felt weird looking at it.

Why were they like this? Would he ever get an answer? It was hard to say.

After a few minutes, he turned around and resumed his journey toward the Ever Dark realm, the many others surpassing him far and away. He was the one that was the most behind of all.

He flew toward it, closing in more and more.

The realm was a little over 800 thousand kilometers away. Such a distance would take him way more than a day to cover if it wasn’t in space. In space, he was sure he could do it in less time than that.

The only reason he wasn’t speeding up to that level was because he wanted to take some time getting used to the free space. That and the fact that getting to the realm itself was impossible.

As they continued, the yin became stronger and stronger. He checked his talisman which said that the other realm was still over 500 thousand kilometers away. And yet, he was already beginning to feel the Yin be quite strong.

At its current strength, True realm cultivators would begin to struggle to stay around without freezing from the coldness of the Yin. It was still more than pleasant for Alex, so he continued.

They flew for what felt like another few hours while Silvermist spoke a bit about space and its significance. According to him, people also came out here to run away from the lightning tribulation that came for them every 10 thousand or so years.

Since they were out of Heaven, they didn’t have to fight the strong lightning tribulation and could stay away. Inversely, if they did stay in space long enough to miss lightning tribulation, the next one they faced would be a lot stronger than the one that they would’ve faced had they not missed it.

So, those who missed their lightning tribulations and weren’t strong enough to fight it again chose to stay in space and cultivate until they were sure they could do it.

There were apparently entire groups of Divine Realm cultivators who never returned to a realm again because they knew they would die the moment they stepped foot inside.

Alex was quite stunned hearing about it. Just the fact that there was a way to stay alive for longer than they could while back in a realm was reason enough for him to consider space itself as another realm for people to live in.

One that did not have a Heaven to govern it.

Alex was around the 400 thousand-kilometer mark when he finally felt a true lack of gravity. Even though it was incredibly weak by now, he had been feeling the gravity of the realm he had left behind, pulling him toward it. The one above him was pulling him toward it too, but it had been weaker.

However, now that he had reached an equilibrium, he was floating with the two gravity canceling each other out, making him truly float with no up or down.

As he continued, the gravity shifted.

He was now being pulled by the Ever Dark realm more than he was being pulled by Eclipsing Heaven. At this point, he wasn’t flying toward Ever Dark realm. He was falling toward it.

“The Yin will get much stronger from here on out. Can you handle it?” Silvermist asked.

“I can,” Alex said.

“Alright, let us continue then.”

Alex nodded and kept falling toward Ever Dark realm.