The Undying Immortal System

Within the sect, acquiring enough karmic energy to ascend to Peak Emperor was a rather daunting task.

Lower down the mountain, there were dozens of merchant associations that were willing to pay premium prices for high-quality pills, formations, and weapons. Having existed for centuries, these associations had built up large reserves of contribution points for whenever ‘geniuses’ passed by, and they would use these reserves to purchase as many items crafted by these geniuses as possible.

However, in Heaven City, this wasn’t the case. There were a few small shops, but there were no large associations, and there was no one looking to buy Rank 6 pills or formations in bulk.

So, to earn contribution points, I was forced to use the Fire Peak’s Mission Hall. The only problem with this was that the Mission Hall only offered a small number of Emperor-level missions each year. This might have simply been because few people on this continent were both in need of and able to pay for the help of a Rank 6 individual, but I felt that it was also, at least partially, a way to force people up to the Summit. With Emperor-level karmic energy being so scarce, many people would likely choose to ascend the mountain instead of waiting around to accrue enough points to advance to Peak Emperor.

This is all to say that acquiring enough energy for my advancement to Peak Emperor took time—it took decades—but eventually, by completing every alchemy mission I could get my hands on, I was finally about to make it there.

Of course, while advancing my cultivation base took time, it was time well spent. During the long stretches between missions, I focused on practicing refining and formations in order to master the art of crafting memory orbs.

As I slowly came to discover, the principles behind these orbs were rather interesting.

To make a memory orb, first, a skilled earth cultivator needed to craft a monocrystalline block of pure white jade. Then, a refiner needed to alter the core of this crystal and rearrange its molecules into an amorphous state. This ‘amorphous state’ lacked the regularity and order of the original crystalline structure, but it wasn’t random. To hold memories properly, an orb required a very precise structure for its amorphous core.

The reason why a complete monocrystalline structure was produced first was because it provided an outer shell to protect the delicate inner core. Then, once the refiner's work was done, this outer shell was where a formation specialist would need to craft two sets of formations, one for storing memories and one for retrieving them.