As soon as Alex ate the pill, the heavenly aura of the pill started to mix into Alex. Alex felt strong energy enter his body and this energy was just the tip of the ice.
The heaven devouring pill, as soon as it entered Alex's body it suddenly bursts incredible amount of essence.
BOOM
As soon as the pill bursts, the medical essence of the pill started to spread throughout his body. The strong essence overwhelmingly entered all the body parts.
The medical essence that entered his internal organs slowly started to transform his organs and the impurities inside them are pushed out.
The essence entered the bones, blood vessels, muscles and slowly started transforming every single body part and eliminate the impurities from the body.
As soon as the impurities were pushed out of his body, Alex felt the lightness of his body. As soon as the impurities were pushed out, all the essence started to gather behind his navel region.
There was already a broken essence core inside him and the essence gathered near the broken essence core. Soon an illusionary shadow of a Golden lotus bud appeared beside the broken essence core.
Soon the Golden Lotus bud started to bloom. When it bloomed the essence in the surroundings started to gather towards the lotus.
When Alex saw that the golden lotus had nine petals, he realized it was the heaven-grade flower nine petal Heavens devouring Lotus.
The lotus bloomed with brilliance and form the core of Lotus a golden seed came out of the lotus. When this seed appeared the Nine Petal heaven devouring lotus stopped absorbing the essence from the surroundings.
This golden seed soon started to gather essence from the surroundings and started to create an essence core. Soon the essence started to surround the seed to become an essence core. When the surrounding essence about to become an essence core, the essence in the core shape suddenly collapsed.
Essence core formation failed.
The seed once again gathered the essence to create an essence core but at the crucial point, the essence suddenly dispersed.
The failure shocked Alex greatly. He thought that he can successfully condense Essence core, but the failure was beyond his expectations.
Soon Alex urged the lotus seed, the seed soon started to gather essence once again.
Still, the second attempt failed. Alex got worried about the two failures.
The third attempt also failed. Alex's heart clenched when he felt the failure.
When the fourth attempt also failed. Alex suddenly felt despair. He didn't know what went wrong, he thought as long as there is a 100% chance to activate the effect of the pill, then he can become a cultivator. But the truth went beyond his imagination.
If it was an ordinary person he may have condensed essence core, but Alex has broken soul deficiency. A person who is born with broken soul deficiency is not acknowledged by heaven. So such a person becoming a cultivator is equal to going against heaven.
Alex started to feel his limit as he entered his fifth attempt. Alex's mind was in chaos, he didn't understand what he has to do in this situation.
When the fifth attempt of essence core formation reached the critical point, the essence once again collapsed.
Whenever there was an essence collapse, it will have a certain point of effect on his body. So continuous collapse damaged his body.
The fifth failure made Alex cough out some blood. He felt the limit of his body, if he went beyond this then there may be a real life-threatening danger.
When Dave and Lara saw Alex coughing blood, their expression turned pale in fright. They soon concluded that something must have gone wrong along the process.
Both of them used their consciousness to check on Alex, soon they found the problem. The collapse of the essence before turning into a core made them frown.
"Lara why is this happening, that was a heaven-grade pill, such a pill can't even successfully create an essence core? Why do I feel that something was wrong." Dave asked Lara with a frown on his face.
Lara who has been observing the situation of Alex suddenly showed an intense killing intent.
Dave who felt the killing intent of Lara suddenly thought of something. Soon, with an angry face, Dave asked Lara.
"Is there any problem in the ancient pill recipe that he gave us?"
"No, the ancient pill recipe was genuine. It's just that this doesn't have any effect on Alex due to his broken soul deficiency. Leon probably knew about this but still, he gave this pill recipe to deceive us and waste our 17 years." Lara told with intense killing intent.
"Leon, that bastard." Dave felt intense anger.
Looking at the blood flowing out from Alex's mouth, a trace of despair appeared in Dave's eyes.
"It looks like heaven doesn't even open a way out for my son. Does heaven want my son to die? What should I do...what can I even do."
Anger, fear, despair, anger, and killing intent all emotions appeared in Dave's face. A small red mist formed in his eyes which was held within the eyes.
"Why does it have to be my son?.... Why does it have to be my son?"
Soon blood tears started to flow down his eyes. His hair started to stand up and immense pressure started to crush everything in the surroundings.
Now Dave Devan appeared like a crazed demon that would slaughter every living being to appease his anger.
Lara who intensely observing Alex's situation in a daze suddenly snapped out of it by Dave's pressure. Looking at the crazed appearance of Dave, Lara understands the emotions that Pushed Dave to his current state. She doesn't know how to calm Dave, still, she appeared beside Dave and told him.
"Calm down Dave, don't lose hope."
Dave slightly managed to suppress his state of mind and spoke.
"Tell me Lara what did he do wrong to have this kind of fate? So we had no hope from the beginning?"
Tears started to flow from Lara's eyes as she stared at Dave, but no words came from her mouth. She swallowed the sadness and still spoke.
"What you said was right Dave, from the beginning we had no hope. We know that he can't live beyond the age of 18 because of his broken soul deficiency, still, we looked for a solution. We know that there are chances for the pill to be ineffective, still, we just hoped for a miracle to appear but....." before Lara could finish speaking she felt the surrounding essence once again started to gather towards Alex once again.
Alex who failed five times to condense essence core felt that his body has reached the limit. Feeling his body situation, Alex felt helpless, and he thought to himself.
"If I were to stop now I can live, but I may not be able to become a cultivator."
"If I were to stop now then it means I wasted the efforts and hard work of my father and aunt."
"If I were to stop now it means that I have acknowledged my fate set by the heavens."
"It would be great if I can succeed next attempt. I wanted to show my father that his hard work was not wasted."
Alex urged the seed once again. When it started to gather the essence, suddenly Alex fell into a strange state.
*Enlightenment*
The second effect of the pill suddenly activated. Alex who fell into the state of enlightenment felt that his surroundings were changed.
He was standing in the starry sky. When he felt similar surroundings, Alex was shocked.
"Why am I here?...." Alex turned around while speaking, but he froze on the spot before finished speaking.
When he turned around he saw a black sun appeared in front of him. He felt his soul was going to be sucked away if he were to watch the black sun for a few moments.
When he first saw the black sun it was surrounded by a lot of stars, but now he suddenly appeared in front of the black sun. He quickly checked his surroundings only to find that he was struck between the black sun and the revolving stars.
In front of the huge sun, he felt like an ant standing in front of a giant dragon. The overwhelming sense of powerlessness made him feel like a worthless insect.
He suddenly thought about the similar feeling he felt before getting dragged into this place, It was too similar to the first time he got dragged here.
He felt that there was no pressure pressing against him like the first time when he tried to gather the stars. So he suddenly got curious about what would happen if he were to touch the black sun.
When he tried to lift his hand to touch the black sun, he unexpectedly discovered that he couldn't even move his finger. Alex felt helpless, it felt like the black sun froze his body the moment he thought about touching it. After calming down, Alex thought about the crucial point.
"Why did I suddenly appear in front of the black sun? Just why the heck would it allow me to get closer now while it prevented me from getting closer to those stars." Alex asked himself in a puzzled manner.
Suddenly the huge ball of fire split a small ball of flame. This ball of flame slowly moved towards Alex.
Some stars that sensed the departure of a small flame ball soon shot like a shooting star towards the small black flame. Nearly 50 stars appeared beside the small flame and started to revolve around it just as the cluster of stars revolving around the black sun.
Alex saw the small black flame coming towards him, but he still couldn't move any part of his body. He can only watch as the flame appeared in front of him and entered his body.
CRACK
The moment the black flame entered his body he felt that something inside him shattered to Smithereens and then got burned to ashes by the black flame.
Alex suddenly felt very relaxed. He felt as if something that has been shackling him for ages suddenly shattered to pieces. Soon his vision started to get blurry, and he disappeared from the starry sky.