The mont had co.
Both the snake and the tortoise were beginning to show significant changes to their body. The colors on the brown snake had grown darker, inching closer to becoming black.
The sa was true of the tortoise, its shell losing its barely visible spots, and the gray getting much darker than before. Its hide grew quite thick as well.
Their bodies grew since they had entered and improved their
bloodline, so their body and soul were no longer similar enough for them to remain as one.
The body did what it had to. It trembled violently, wounds appearing all around, trying to change to match the soul, while the soul too changed on the inside to match the body.
Only the difference had grown far too much and far too fast for any of that to work. The unity that existed between a body and soul had also ended up degrading as a result, so their cultivation didn't help at all.
At this point, unless Alex helped them, they would die.
"They won't, Alex told himself. 'Sothing is going to happen soon. The change is coming. Their soul will grow!
If his focus could burn, the two beasts would've been ash by then. Alex rejected all other distractions and focused solely on the trembling snake. He did not want to miss any part of whatever was happening next.
A sudden change ca upon the snake's behavior. Its outwardly intense wounds and trembling ca to a shimr as the entire beast cald down.
Alex frowned. Did the beast improve all on its own? Did its soul make the leap sohow?
What had happened? Alex couldn't tell because he didn't sense a damn thing.
The tortoise cald all the sa. Both the brothers had sohow made so improvent to their soul or body or sothing. Without properly testing the beasts, he couldn't tell anything.
The blood drained from the pool once again, and the two beasts slowly ca out of their trance.
Alex sighed, unable to understand the situation. Was he just wrong that this was the mont? Was the mont still coming? Or was this all there was to evolution?
Just improve and evolve.
'Not a goddamn chance, Alex thought. 'Everything would be so much simpler if that were the case. And nothing in life is that simple. I'm missing sothing. What did I miss?'
Alex wondered if focusing on the snake alone was the mistake. He had ignored every other thing that had happened during that period, so maybe he needed to broaden his senses.
As the pool emptied and much thicker blood poured out of the statue, Alex waited. As the pool filled, he took a deep breath, preparing. Once the beasts started the absorption process once again, Alex focused and searched for anything and everything that changed in that pool. He had to wait for so ti for the bloodline elents pouring into the beasts to change them quicker than their body could handle. Once again, they fell into terrible pain as their soul and body fell out of communication, neither understanding the other one as well.
The beasts let out involuntary groans from the pain that beca more and more frequent as ti went on. And then, everything began calming down once again.
Alex did his absolute best to find out what was happening, and yet he didn't sense anything.
'Is there really nothing happening?' he thought, refusing to believe it. And then, he rembered the words he spoke with the matriarch. 'Only those with strong senses are forced to speak the oath, he thought. "They made speak the oath because they thought my senses were strong enough. But I'm no Divinity yet. I have no Divine sense. What if... they overestimated ? My spiritual sense might be strong enough to be compared to Divine sense, but that doesn't an it is Divine sense.
Alex thought for a single mont and knew what he had to do.
He stared at the beasts, the changes that ca upon them. It was clear that they were still far from being 'evolved, but they were reaching that point.
A few sessions more and they would.
'I have ti,' Alex thought and stood up, completely ignoring the
beasts for now. He walked as far away from the pool as he could and separated the space between him and the pool so as to not
completely disturb the two beasts.
"If the quality of my spiritual sense is what is stopping from sensing whatever is going on, then all I can do is improve it."
He closed his eyes, his mind lost in countless thoughts. Ti slowed for him, physically, as he employed the dao to help him think faster. His mind raced through every possible scenario in the hours that
passed for him.
And then, at the end of it all, he opened them, having co up with sothing important.
A recipe.
mory arrived before him in a flash and so did a bunch of
ingredients. Fire ca to life underneath her and he placed in the
first of the ingredients.
Alex was in no hurry to make the pill quickly. Since this was his first
ti making it, it was important that it ca out proper rather than fast. Ingredient after ingredient, Alex refined everything he had until a
pill ford.
The pill clouds ford, only on the inside, and even that was
separated from the pool because of the subspace he had created within here. Pill lightning fell upon mory, one after another, until
all nine struck down.
The pill clouds were finally gone, and all that was left for Alex was a single pill inside the cauldron.
Alex picked out the pill and smiled slightly. He hadn't the faintest idea
if this would help him with his issue or not, but he had to take his
chances.
The spatial walls vanished and Alex walked back toward the pool. He
sat down patiently, waiting for the mont when the two beasts
would begin their painful sessions once again.
When they did, Alex ate the pill.
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