The blood pouring out of both of the statues was now at least a degree thicker than what Alex had been introduced to at the start of it all. It wasn't thicker in the sense that the blood had a higher viscosity - which was also true to a certain degree- but the fact that there were now more bloodline elents present than the last ti.
At least 5% more, if Alex's estimations were correct. It was a small enough change from before, but one that Alex managed to notice almost imdiately.
Alex sat there dumbfounded as he tried to co up with a reason as to why that was happening. Not only were the dead elents now completely gone from the blood and replaced with live ones, but there were also more of them.
Alex might've considered that the dead elents from before were made alive once again had the number been less than before. But that was clearly not the case given the increase in number.
Sothing else was going on. Either there had been more bloodline elents that weren't present in the pool to begin with, or it had been created sohow.
Alex couldn't imagine how it could've been created, so he could only guess that it was present sowhere else to begin with.
His eyes turned toward the two statues as they were either the source of this or connected to a reason behind this. He now
understood why they were present here. They were a vital part of the pool.
Alex waited for the blood pouring out of the two statues to fill the pool. He didn't want to interfere with it while it was working, just in case there was a defensive chanism that stopped the blood from flowing out of it if he did so.
Ten minutes later, the pool was once again more or less filled, and the
beasts began cultivating once again. The blood pouring out of the two statues' mouths turned to a trickle, and finally, Alex began his investigation.
He was closer to the snake statue, so his senses reached for it first.
Despite pouring out blood all this ti, being forever bound to a room where blood filled the room like a mist, not a single essence of it was present on the statue.
The statue, made from a single piece of tal, was an incredible piece of work. Only an artist could create sothing so beautiful.
Alex looked around the snake for a second longer, a part of him now fascinated with artifacts beginning to wonder what tal it was made of. A na ca to his head, one he had mory of - not his mory.
'Spiritbound Startal, Alex thought.
While the na ca to him almost imdiately, the other details of the tal escaped him for the ti being. The tal had a simpler na as well, but not one he could rember at the mont. He tried to think more about the tal, but that wasn't important right
now.
Right now, what he needed to do was focus on the statue and find out how it was producing so much blood with active bloodline elents.
Alex pushed his sense into the snake's statue, only to find himself unceremoniously barred from entering. Alex paused, now fully unaware of what it was that he had to do. He tried again, trying to go in any deeper, but nothing was happening.
It was hard to describe Alex's experience with the statue. It wasn't that it repelled his senses, but that it fully stopped when it reached the statue. As if anything beyond that was not sothing spiritual senses were supposed to exist in.
Alex frowned, his eyes narrowing. Had there been tis before when he had sensed sothing like this?
His senses weren't destroyed, like Void did. They weren't devoured, like the World Tree did. And they weren't made inactive, like the Moon Goddess's Yin aura did.
This ti, he had simply hit a wall, and he could not for the life of him tell why that was.
'There's no barrier. There's no spirit. It's just an artifact if anything, and it's sohow stopping my sense from entering? How?"
Alex could not understand just what was happening. He needed to learn how the blood was getting replaced and yet there was no answer to be gained here.
He switched over to the tortoise statue, wondering if this Spiritbound Startal artifact would give him a better chance at seeing its inner workings. That too failed.
'Is it the tal?' Alex thought. A part of him was certain that it wasn't the tal. The Spiritbound Startal had no such effect on one's spiritual sense at all. Still, just in case he was mistaken, he closed his eyes and revisited Godslayer's mories where he worked on an artifact with this tal.
Spiritbound Startal was a tal that didn't have many use cases, given its affinity to quickly acquire impurities while hot. It needed 5 tis as much work to be put into it for it to be no better than most ordinary Immortal rank tals.
That was, of course, if one was only focused on its physical properties. The reason the tal didn't have many use cases was because it was a tal that was quite good at amplifying soone's
ntal strength.
In the mory, the Artifact God worked on a long staff ant for the Mind God. With the staff, the Mind God's powers improved by leaps
and bounds.
"Huh?" Alex couldn't help but be even more confused now.
The Spiritbound Startal was ant to amplify spiritual sense and
other ntal techniques. It was a tal that accepted spiritual sense more than any other tal. So how co it was not accepting
anything anymore?
Alex failed to see any reason why it might not.
He still tried to see into the statue and see how it created the fresh
blood, but at this rate, he was better off giving up and just chalking it up to one of the beasts' secrets.
He didn't need to learn about this anyway since he already had all the blood Pearl would need to begin with.
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