Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

"1…"

"2…"

"I can\'t! I have spoken an oath to never speak about him," the man shouted at the last moment.

"What?" Alex asked.

"Yes, I can\'t tell you even if I do know," the man said.

"Alright," Alex said. "Then did you know about the assassination attempts on my life?"

The man didn\'t speak.

"Answer me!" Alex shouted.

"I did not!" the man said.

"You know what to do," Alex said. "Speak the oath."

The man\'s face went white. "I lied. I did!" he said.

"Who was it?" he asked.

"I can\'t tell you!" he said.

"Was it someone from your house?" Alex asked.

"I… I can\'t tell you!" the man shouted even more.

"That\'s the same as telling me," Alex said. "I didn\'t kill you before because you said you have an oath stopping you from speaking about my father. But, now I ask you, were you involved in what is happening with him?"

The man shook his head furiously.

"Don\'t just shake your head," Alex said. "Speak the oath. Tell me that you were neither involved with what is happening with my father, nor were you involved in my assassination."

Alex pressed his leg on the man\'s stomach, stopping him from trying to even more. The others watched with a horrified face, and some even tried to attack, but none of their attacks budged Alex.

The only thing they did was slowly reveal the thing that hid beneath the facade of his image.

"Who dares come to my house and cause a commotion?!" a man\'s deep voice reverberated throughout the house as he came out onto the hallway where the fight was taking place.

Alex saw the man, but he wasn\'t worried. Instead, he started his counting.

"1!"

Kang Reushen looked horrified. "Grandfather, help me!" he shouted toward the old man who had just appeared.

The old man charged Alex with a sickle in his hand and directly went for the throat.

"2!"

The sickle landed on Alex\'s neck, and the remaining energy from the sickle destroyed 5 of the rooms next to them. However, the old man\'s eyes went wide as the sickle didn\'t even nick the surface of where it had landed.

The pristine white surface was extraordinarily clear.

"3!"

Alex slammed his foot down onto the man\'s stomach, destroying his dantian in a single stomp. The man cried out in pain, but Alex didn\'t care about it.

He leg pushed even further down, crushing the man\'s entrails onto the floor itself. The man\'s cried remained for a few more seconds before it disappeared.

The old man\'s eyes were wide in shock, not just because his grandson had just died in front of him, not just because his attack had been stopped by someone whose cultivation base felt nowhere near as strong as his own, but also because he finally saw what had stopped his attack.

A white puppet.

The puppet moved it\'s arm and grabbed onto the sickle that was on its neck and crushed it so easily that one would mistaken the sickle for being made up of sand.

"Tell me, did you have a hand in this?" Alex asked as he looked at the old man as well.

The voice was coming from a talisman that was attached to the puppet\'s face, so even though the old man knew he wasn\'t talking to someone directly, it still felt like that to him.

"Who are you? Why did you kill my grandson?" the man asked with unhidden rage and anger.

"You descendants have put a bounty on my head, sending assassins to kill me, just so they can hide where my father is," Alex said. "Do you know where my father is?"

The puppet slowly moved towards him.

"Who are you?" the man slowly backed away.

The puppet dashed instantly before the old man could get too far away and grabbed onto the old man\'s throat as well.

"My name is Alex, I am an alchemist. Tell me whether you know about my father or not?" Alex asked.

"I… I don\'t know who you are or who your father is," the old man said.

"Make an oath, or I will kill you too," Alex said.

"I swear, I don\'t know anything about you or your father," the man shouted.

The puppet dropped the old man and turned its eyeless head towards the timid man from before, the one that had sent him the Blood-tainted lead in the first place.

"You! Come with me, you will be explaining everything to me now," Alex said.

The man timidly walked up to the puppet and it grabbed onto his clothes. Whisker jumped onto the puppet\'s shoulders from somewhere and sat there, looking around.

His was the eye that Alex was seeing through after all.

The 10 council elders will be coming very soon, and you will have to answer to them why one of their own families is trying to kill someone they are trying to protect.

The old man\'s eyes were filled with anger and fear, and that helped him stay on his hand. A few other older people arrived on the scene, but the old man stopped them from approaching.

Approaching the puppet was death after all.

"To anyone else that was involved in all of this, you will all die, that\'s my promise."

The puppet turned around and pulled the timid old man before going out of the house.

Alex appeared out of nowhere and teleported them all away. Then, he quickly set up a formation to hide himself and the man.

He looked at the puppet next to him and nodded to himself. The gift from the tower had been way too incredible and he was more than happy with what he had received.

An Immortal rank puppet.

Unfortunately, there were no Immortal grade spirit stones, so it couldn\'t function to its fullest capabilities, but the puppet itself was no different from having a physical body that was as strong as an Immortal.

As long as he could get to his enemies with it, he could beat them.

He kept the puppet around just in case he needed it. Then, he turned towards the man. "Now, time for you to tell me everything you know," he said.

The man quickly nodded. "There are things I cannot speak of due to my oaths, so please forgive me on that. I will have to speak around it, so I hope you can understand," he said.

Alex thought seriously for a while and asked. "You are snitching on your own family members. This has already lead to a death and will most likely lead to many more. Why are you doing this?"

"B-because I believe what they are doing is not right," the man said.

Alex saw the man\'s resolve and nodded. "Go ahead then. As long as I get the information I need, I won\'t mind," he said.