Modern Cultivation : The Strongest Couple Bonded by Vampire System-Chapter 631: Alice’s Mission

Alice was sitting alone on top of the cliff, looking at the devastated landscape.

The once prosperous city had turned into ruins.

"Alice..." Alex called as he walked toward her.

"I regret it," Alice said without looking back.

"I should have been here with them. I knew this could happen. I should have told Lily to go with you.

Now both of them are gone.

William is also missing. Nothing is going right."

"You never know if it’s right or wrong until you reach the end," Alex said. "It’s a process."

He shook his head.

"I always hated the fact that my father went missing, but now that I think about it, it’s not that simple. Without that incident, I probably wouldn’t be here."

Alice fell silent. She didn’t know what to say. She had heard bits and pieces about Alex’s situation.

"Isn’t that better though?" Alice asked.

"You would still get the Progenitor power and your father would still be there.

Your mother would probably stay too, same with your sister.

Your family would stick together."

Alex reached her side and looked at the ruined city again.

He had seen planets turn into dust. Over the last three years, the number only kept increasing.

Chaos and destruction were nothing new to him now.

"It’s more complicated than that," Alex said.

"What I know is, if my father stayed, I probably would never have met Mingyue."

His father had some deal with Mingyue’s parents. If his father stayed, that deal probably never happened.

’And there is the Primordial. Until I know my father’s full plan, nothing is certain.’

Alex sighed. "It’s pointless anyway. Stop beating yourself up over what you could have done.

Time won’t go back. The only thing we can do is move forward."

Alice’s gaze sharpened. She had already prepared to risk her life on this mission.

"My priority is to gather information and rescue my people," she replied.

"You need to prepare yourself," Alex said.

"If my guess is correct, they will bring you to others in similar situations."

Alex took out a purplish gem cut into a diamond shape. Many runes covered its surface. He tossed it to her.

"This should let you send information one time without anyone finding out."

He looked at her directly.

"Your mission stakes are bigger than you think, Alice.

I expect you to meet survivors from the last Progenitor War, and you will probably meet Felidaeans who have been enslaved for generations. Prepare your heart."

Alice’s expression turned grim. "Won’t they separate them to avoid an insurgency?"

"In the past, maybe," Alex replied. "But it’s already been many generations. They will probably put them in one place because it’s easier to guard."

"You always think there are survivors," Alice said.

"Have you ever thought that they were already wiped out?"

Alex frowned. "It’s possible, but I doubt it in this situation."

He couldn’t find a reason for them to make it zero, unless it was hatred so deep it turned into obsession.

Even then, complete extermination would be hard.

He changed the topic. "How about the new cultivation method I gave you?"

"I tried it," Alice said. "But it’s impossible for me. The first step alone would take me at least ten years, and this is not counting finding the required material."

"As expected," Alex muttered, feeling dejected.

He had hoped Alice could find way with her fairy dust spell, but reality was still reality.

’Seems I need another way. So far, any material I found is too expensive.’

"I don’t get what you were thinking when you made that cultivation system," Alice said.

"Strengthening a body to contain any power needs something at the Progenitor level. Why not dumb it down?"

"If I dumb it down, it deviates from my goal," Alex replied.

"Your goal is to let everyone reach the peak, right?" Alice said.

"Then shouldn’t the early steps let everyone start? Use cheap materials first, then move up."

"That approach won’t work," Alex said.

"If your body adapts to weaker materials, it also keeps impurities. Then the next step becomes harder, because we have to remove and fix it first."

Alice frowned. "I still don’t understand. Then why not make a method to purify the materials?"

Alex’s eyes sharpened.

He had thought of purification before, but he had always pushed it lower on the list. He was too focused on direct transformation.

"I think you’re right," Alex said. "I’m stuck in the same place. This might be the better path."

But he face a huge war as the cleaning impurities is not easy. It’s not just dirt.

What Alex called impurities were things deeper than filth.

It was anything that prevented perfect growth.

Different elements. Wrong resonance. Even the wrong compatibility inside a material with the user.

’Seem space power is still the answer, I need to test this more.’

Alex’s approach was to use space power to change things at the smallest level.

The problem was not just control.

The bigger problem was what kind of new thing he could create, and whether it would stay stable.

He looked at the ruined city below as he thought.

’matter is built from atoms

Atoms stick together in specific patterns.

That pattern decides what the thing becomes.’

He picked up a small pebble and crushed it between his fingers, turning it into dust.

Alex picked up a small pebble and crushed it between his fingers.

Dust slipped through the gaps and fell in a thin stream.

He stared at it and thought about water.

H2O sounded simple. Two hydrogen, one oxygen.

But it was never just three pieces stuck together.

The bond angle mattered.

The shape mattered.

That was why water behaved like water.

If you broke the bonds, it stopped being water. It became hydrogen and oxygen.

They would not turn back just because they were close.

You needed energy to break bonds, and you needed the right conditions to form them again.

Carbon was even clearer.

Same element, different structure. One arrangement gave you a coal, another gave you diamond.