Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

The metal was not the reason for whatever was happening; Alex was certain of that much. So, all he could really do now was wait and

watch for any other changes he could notice.

The beasts within the pool entered another trance, slowly lost as the bloodline elements gathered around them, filling them up again. This time, there were more of those elements, so they were going to likely consume more of it, improving their overall bloodline.

Alex truly hoped this wasn’t all. He hoped this was the preamble to the true event that would bring forth evolution.

Nothing much changed in what happened to the beasts next. The bloodline elements seeped into them, then came out black and dead. The failure rate was still high.

Seeing that not many changes were happening, Alex stood up and walked around the room. He could leave the room anytime he wanted, but then he couldn’t return. So until he got his answers, he wasn’t going to leave. Instead, he just strode around, looking at the architecture of the place, while a thread of his consciousness lay on the pool just in case any unforeseen changes occurred.

The obsidian wall held Alex’s attention for a while, their luster a respite for him from the task he had taken for himself. Alas, they could only hold his attention for so long before boredom took over.

There wasn’t much else to do here. He couldn’t even cultivate inside here as doing so would take away the Qi from the surroundings, which would make it harder for the young beasts to cultivate.

Alex sighed, and after some time, went right back to the previous spot to sit again.

The tremors came to a stop, the pool now covered at the bottom with dead bloodline elements. Four holes opened at the bottom and it began draining again.

Alex tried to follow it again, only to be stopped by some unseen force. ‘See? This is how it should be,’ he told himself. ‘At least I know there is a formation or something underneath there that is stopping me from seeing more. I could probably force myself there too if I really wanted to’

His senses jumped back at the statues, unable to move past the surface as if they had met a truly immovable substance.

‘What the hell is this?’

Alex calmed himself, taking deep breaths as the frustration curled off him, vanishing into the air. He took some deep breaths and looked back at the statues as blood poured out of their mouths once again. Fresh blood with fresh bloodline elements.

‘How many times are they going to do this?’

He wondered if there was a limit to all of this. His senses delved into the blood and noticed that the bloodline elements within it had improved in amount once again. This time, it had jumped by a large

amount.

“That’s a bigger jump than last time, Alex thought. ‘Did the pool notice that they can accept more blood than regular?’

That fascinated Alex a little more. Was starting slow a good idea for the beasts to get acquainted with the blood and improve their bloodline slowly? Was that a sort of warm-up or did the pool start off weaker just in case the beasts couldn’t handle its true strength?

That led Alex to wonder just how high it could go. How much denser could the blood get?

A few days passed with no changes to the routine for the bloodline pool. The sessions each lasted a few hours each time, but there were times when it took a few hours just to get it to start. By now, there had been over two dozen such sessions and the two Saint beasts’ bloodlines had improved by quite a level.

The blood within the pool also grew dense with each passing session, although it still had much to go before it reached the level of the blood Alex had prepared.

The beasts continued absorbing it without much issue.

It was around the end of the 8th day since being in the room that Alex noticed the first change within the beasts. The snake squirmed suddenly in the middle of one of those sessions, as if trying to get something off its body that wouldn’t leave.

Alex focused on the beast, quickly searching for what was wrong.

To his surprise, there were deep lacerations all across the snake’s body, blood profusely leaking from within it. Bloodline elements that were within its body moved out with the blood.

Alex frowned, trying to understand the cause of this. It took him a few minutes to finally understand that this was the body’s way of coping with the influx of bloodline elements it could not handle.

The snake was improving at a rate far too fast for the changes to reflect on both body and soul at the same time.

The healer part of Alex wanted to bring out a healing pill for the snake, to save it from its misery. However, the part that was in charge knew that without this, he wouldn’t receive the knowledge he had come here for.

So as much as the snake suffered, it was going to have to suffer a little more. For his sake.

Nothing too drastic happened on that very session, but things would change soon.

Two sessions later, the snake’s brother started bleeding as well as its rate of improvement too had reached a level where its soul could not

keep up with its changes.

After many more sessions, the blood grew thick to a point where it was nearly as dense as the blood Alex had. At this point, so long as the

beasts cultivated and absorbed the bloodline elements, no matter how many wounds they created on themselves, they could not make the

changes happen slower.

There was still a chasm for these beasts to cross before their bloodline could fully change, so this had to be the point at which the

changes within their souls took place.

The jump that pushed their soul from simple beasts to a Black

Tortoise.

And Alex had no plans on missing it for anything.