Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 2197: Spiritual Root Grafting

Alex could have done what he was about to do without telling the woman, but he found that in itself more demonic than the act could ever be. Which was why he decided to let her know what he was going to do instead of keeping her in the dark.

Still, he didn’t tell her everything. Everything the girl knew was that she was going to have a part of her spiritual root removed and then healed back up to hopefully no longer be a problem.

He absolutely did not want to have to explain to her how it was that he had come across another spiritual root that he could place into her body.

The young woman prepared herself for the surgery and Alex gave her a pill to eat.

“What is this?” She was puzzled at the sight of the pill.

“Something to get you knocked out while I work on your spiritual root,” he said. “Or else the pain will be too much for you to handle.”

The young woman slowly nodded. “Isn’t there a pill to just have me not feel pain?” she asked.

“There is but this is simpler for me,” Alex told her. “If you begin freaking out in the middle of the surgery, that would be bad for me. I don’t want to have to deal with that.”

“Oh… okay.” The girl did not disagree any more. She did everything Alex told her to, including taking an oath to never speak of this situation to anyone ever again. She ate the pill and soon fell asleep on the mat. She believed that was where she was going to be treated, but Alex couldn’t afford to deal with her here.

Especially not since he was doing this in the middle of a street. Sanitation alone would be an issue, not to mention the fact that anyone with a strong enough Spiritual sense or Divine sense could possibly have a way to look into his barrier using methods he did not understand and see what he was doing.

Alex didn’t entirely know if what he was doing was demonic. But on the more than slim chance that it was, he didn’t want to implicate himself by asking the question. He needed to bring up the topic naturally.

‘It can’t be demonic if I’m helping someone, right?’ Alex thought. But then, he had buckets full of frozen spiritual roots in his Soul Space, all taken from corpses, waiting for the time when he could use them, so who really knew?

Once the woman was completely knocked out and in his Soul Space, Alex sent his spiritual sense following her and began working on her.

She lay in the Demon Soul where a cut appeared around her naval regions. Whisker was there to help with anything else that would be needed, and Alex got to work.

He cut open her lower stomach, revealing the dantian and the many tiny meridians that came out of it. This girl only had 3 spiritual roots. One regular, one fire, and one metal. It was the regular one that was causing the issue, so Alex quickly located it. He could visually see which one was the issue just through Whisker’s eyes. One of the appendages attached to the regular spiritual root was slightly darker in color, which was most definitely the one that turned her regular Qi poisonous.

If the entire spiritual root was as such and her body could handle it, it might have been a different situation. But since it hurt her, it needed to be removed.

Alex trimmed out the part of it that was poisonous and grafted another piece from the pile of Spiritual roots he had. He had to make sure there were more things that fit together than just being neutral spiritual roots, but that was easy to do given how many he had.

Alex trimmed out the part of it that was poisonous and grafted another piece from the pile of Spiritual roots he had. He had to make sure there were more things that fit together than just being neutral spiritual roots, but that was easy to do given how many he had.

Immediately after the ‘cultivate’ opening of the Spiritual root was conjoined with both the spiritual root and the meridians it previously connected to, he closed up the cut through Whisker’s help and quickly force-fed a healing pill to the young woman.

Slowly, her body healed up, the scars of surgery disappearing as though they were never there in the first place. Alex checked her body thoroughly as it healed, making absolutely sure that the spiritual root did not reject what he had given to her.

If that were to happen, he would have to immediately help her once again. He kept watching for a while and when the situation seemed stable, he finally sighed a deep relief.

After thinking about it for a bit, he decided that even with the oath, it was better if the woman didn’t remember what had been done to her recently. It just seemed safer that way, so Alex brought out a pill that could erase recent memories from Saints and fed it to her.

With that, she would miss about an hour to 3 hours of time from when she took the pill. He brought the woman out and had her come awake. She woke up in a daze, not sure where she was or what she was doing. She immediately screamed upon seeing that she was surrounded by a barrier, with Alex standing over her.

Alex said nothing and waited for her to stop screaming. “Don’t panic. You’re in the healing festival,” he said. “Do you feel unwell by any chance?”

The woman, still scared, slowly shook her head.

“You came here with an issue with your body aching while you cultivated,” Alex said. “I am certain I have healed you, but just to be safe, would you mind cultivating?”

The woman paused for a moment and carefully checked herself. She prepared herself to feel pain, but to her surprise, there was nothing. The flow of Qi felt… amazing instead. She had never felt cultivation be this easy before.

“Did… did you really heal me?” she asked. “How do I not remember?”

“That’s a side effect of the process. Don’t worry, you shouldn’t have lost too much time,” Alex said.

The woman was confused, but she couldn’t say anything in opposition to Alex’s words. “That seems to be,” she said and got up. “Am I fully healed? Will there be an issue later on?”

Alex shook his head. “If the issue was to happen, it would’ve happened already,” he said. “You are safe. Go ahead, you won’t feel the pain again.”

The woman left, a little uncertain, but feeling mostly happy that she no longer felt pain while cultivating.

Alex walked out of the barrier after her and sat back on the empty seat. He had finally done something with what he had trained for with spiritual roots. It was a small thing, nothing as great as what he really wanted. But it was something nonetheless.

He had to wait only for a few minutes when another customer appeared before him. Finally, it was an Immortal realm cultivator that had come to him.

“Are you open to help?” he asked.

“I am,” Alex said. “Is there any issue I can help you with?”

The man hesitated for a bit. “It’s a private matter. Can we go somewhere more private?” he asked, looking around before noticing the barrier. “There. Let’s go there.”

Alex nodded. “Sure, follow me.”