Dao that doesnt exist

By crossing Body tempering realm Ren finally started his journey of real cultivation and entered QI gathering stage of fundation establishment! It was also the simplest stage, all cultivator had to do was to gather enough QI in their meridians and body which will in turn allow them to open their dantian.

His Master arriwed soon after he did so as it was time to make his disciple take care of his precious treasured garden!

"Good, good! You didnt dissapoint me and i wasnt mistaken either by taking You as a disciple! From now You can be cosidered real member of the sect and a inner disciple." As Sima Long said so he tossed interspatial ring to him. Yes it was precious treasure to many lowly clans like Ren, but to him it was just trash considering that he gave him one of the worst quality!

"In this ring You can find jade slips filled with knowledge every Alchemist has to know! There are 1002 of them, which 1000 refers to Alchemy materials, Heavenly trasures, spiritual plants, all kind of metal/stones/ores, parts of beasts, their beast cores and in short everything that can be used to Alchemy as well" Even human cultivators can become part of the pill! Alchemy could take use of mostly any material that existed in the Multiverse.

It was Art that went against any logic and Heaven itself as Dao of Alchemy didnt exist! Yes, person couldnt "cultivate" existing Dao of Alchemy, because Heaven didnt allow it to simply exist. The only way was to create their own Dao which was not something even the most supreme Mystic cultivators could imagine. Yet the Alchemy existed and while thanks to it not being part of many great Daos, training in it was many times fold harder than Dao of Weapons or Energy it was possible! After all Alchemists existed and made products that rivaled or even simply surpassed Wordly trasures and made the harderst art in the World easier - Cultivation.

"Before You begin, there are 2 jades refering to everything in my Garden! No matter what happens You have to study it night and day, before remebering every single world of them! Then i will let You live in my Garden and cultivate there in peace while slowly learning basics of Alchemy" It was Sima best idea. The amout of information his two jade possesed wasnt high. They were simply names of everything that his small Garden contained and how to take care of them while avoiding any possible damage! However the information in the other 1000... It was something a cultivator that reached high stage of Fundation and unlocked their Spirit could study their entire lifetime! They could learn ten times as fast as they could before! Value of these jades was immense as they described basically everything known to the current Sky Fall sect related to Alchemy, however they were also worthless as most of the knowledge was common.

The problem wasnt to get the knowledge, but how to master it! Even he, a great Alchemy master of 7th tier didnt master more than a 50 of them. Unless someone spent insane price on buying all the elixirs related to Spiritual attribute, which in turn would boost their learning capabilties by lot it was basically impossible. And it was very basic! There was not even the simplest method how to perform Alchemy among them!! Lets not speak about creating something by themself as the base knowledge was just too high. Most of the Alchemy recipes were in truth created by random chances, while 8 tier Alchemist could create some low grade recipes by himself, those of mid or high grade were just mostly chanced upon out of pure luck!

Ren was overhelmed by the very idea, that he owned a interspatial ring! It was his first item that he truly owned. His dream was coming closer!! He still didnt know that the huge knowledge base was slowly digested or simply stored on jade slips by all of the Alchemists, so they could find it with a bit of time in the time of need! No one would learn it all before even starting since a lot of them would give up on the Alchemy anyway or settle after learning how to perform low tier one! After all it was the most difficult Art since Dao of Alchemy didnt exist.

It was in truth another scheme of his Master. As long as his disciple wont ever master entire knowledge contained there he will have an excuse to punish him into taking care of his garden and another one why he wont teach him anything - because he cant even master basics, how can he start learning the real deal!! It was perfect scheme he came up with and he felt incredibly pleased with himself! After couple hunderd of years he would come up with an excuse to make his disciple learn low tier alchemy and work his ass till death for him to repay the debt!!

And just like this during another two months Ren mastered the basic knowledge of the two jade slips and while he thought that mastering another 1000... wouldnt be easy it was possible. He still didnt know yet, that each of them possesed 100 if not 1000 times more information than these 2!!! His time to start slowly gathering of QI and learning while living alone in the Treasured Garden finally came...