In an instant they spent 5 Days in which Alexander took in seclusion to stabilize his cultivation by formally entering the 1-Level Elementary.

Now with his consolidated Realm he could go calmly to the Capital of the Republic.

In the Windows of the Aircraft you could see a glorious, incredibly prosperous city, full of life, with colossal buildings which were as big as mountains and as long as lakes.

At such a view, Anna and Audrey were shocked. Compared to this city, Pale City was a small town. And the capital of the Alba Kingdom as a Village next to the road.

The difference was like heaven and earth.

Ashley's Aircraft landed on one of the Tens of thousands of Gates as they disembarked in the Capital City.

Anna and Audrey looked like a couple of small townspeople arriving in the big city for the first time and could not stop seeing everywhere exclaiming and pointing with their fingers.

While Helena was curious about the "Technology" of the Lowers Realms, she could disguise it better.

Alexander could only sigh and remained indifferent to the Capital City, In comparison with other cities he had seen this was a small village.

While one will enter the continent and while he Martial Dao was deeper, everything would be more developed. The only thing that changed was that people were becoming less dependent on technology.

This was the tip of the Iceberg.

Now Alexander had only one goal in the City, Going to the black market to get spiritual stones.

To advance in the Martial Dao, everyone needs a lot of spiritual Qi. One would have three options for this.

Use spiritual stones

Use pills, herbs or spiritual fruits.

Or absorb it slowly from the Atmosphere of the world.

Among the three methods, the first and the third were the most used while the second was very rare, something that only the rich and with great background could do.

The Reason was simple.

Absorb Qi from the spiritual stones even though it was very fast, it only worked to stabilize, consolidate and increase small Realms.

That is, with enough spiritual stones and time you can move quickly from 1-Level to 9-Level Medium Realms. While one had the talent. Of course.

But if you wanted to advance to the half step or enter another medium realm, even if you swallowed the spiritual stones of a continent, you would first exploit it before taking the last step.

Because of this Reason, Although the 1-Order powers of the Republic had dozens of 9-Level Elementary experts, they did not have even ten Spirit Half Step experts.

To take that last step, the experts would have to slowly absorb Qi from the Atmosphere to find the illumination to break through.

Or find pills, herbs and spiritual fruits to make your way.

But this was very difficult. Since to have those pills you would have to find a good alchemist and all the ingredients for the pill.

As for herbs, it was more a matter of luck than anything else. Since they do not need a many-year-old herb or a specific spiritual fruit.

Alexander had read a legend of a man who found a stalk of a 1-Rank herb 1 million years old. Which made his cultivation advance by leaps and bounds even when he was already an Expert Profund early stage. Making it open up to the intermediate stage of Earth Realm. In only 5 years.

So even if it was a 1-Rank herb while it was old enough it could affect the same G.o.d.

Alexander had several recipes of the same pill, only that these same ones differ from many things like herbs used and the ages of the same.

For example, Alexander had a recipe called "Star Elementary Pill" this was an improved version of the common "Elementary pill".

This was a pill that helped the cultivator to understand the laws of the universe. This was a pill created in the Desolate era to help the Martial Dao.

The specific function of the pill is to refine the senses of the individual in order to understand those laws faster and easier.

The Elementary pill could duplicate the senses by 8 hours. That is, 8 hours with that pill would be equal to 16 without the pill. For a cultivator every second was valuable so this pill for them was certainly a treasure. This value was more for the geniuses.

While the Star Elementary pill could multiply the senses by 8 and the duration the pill was 10 hours.

The two pills used the same herbal base but some changed while those that were maintained, had older ages.

A spiritual herb to be used in alchemy needed a certain age to reach "Maturation", in case of 0-Rank herbs it took at least 100 years.

While the 1-Rank herbs needed 300 to 500 years to reach maturity. and This grew exponentially so that each time the pills became harder to find and the experts more scarce.

Although the great powers had ways to accelerate their growth, Every herb needed the care of an expert and a hundred herbs maybe ten or five reach the right age to be used in Alchemy.

There were even 5-Star pills, which used 1-Rank herbs only that had to be thousands or tens of thousands of years old. Something very difficult to find on the continent. The spiritual Gardens of the Great Powers would only have a few herbs of that age.

Alexander these days was tempted to use a drop of Heaven's Creation Water to ripen a few herbs and move quickly into cultivation.

But according to what I had read, the herbs of great age attract large numbers of demonic beasts and attract large quant.i.ties of Qi.

If he did that with his little strength he was only asking for death. So for now I discard that idea.

What he needed most now were spiritual stones for what he would now get, would be written in the alchemy compet.i.tion and then spend the rest of his time in seclusion.

As for the tokens, I did not know if the Cordner family wanted them after Alexander offended the Guild Master of the Republic.

But anyway I would enter the tournament and after winning it, I would see what to do with the tokens. Alexander decided to write himself as a common Alchemist without representing Ashley's guild.

If not that girl could have another nervous breakdown and Alexander did not want to go through that shameful scene again.