The words froze Alex in an instant, his mind going blank for a second. 'They recognize my aura,' he thought. "They know I'm the Sun God?'
The confusion only lasted for an instant as the need to answer the two voices' questions triumphed over any other thought Alex could've produced in that mont. He cald himself, attempting to put a hint of confidence in his voice.
"My na is Alex. I am a human, and..." he paused for a mont, the next few words taking a lot to speak. "I was born with the Sun God's body and will beco him in the future."
The two voices didn't answer imdiately, but their pressure on his yang aura lasted for quite so ti. Then, one of them spoke.
"We shall converse at a later ti. Do not interfere with the process and restrain your aura."
Alex's yang aura flared up again, and Alex quickly cald it down. Without the intent pressing on it, Alex pulled the aura back into his body. He waited for any attack to push it back out again, but nothing
ca.
All Alex could hear then was the soft breathing of the two beasts as they relaxed from the pain they felt. He wanted to examine their body, find the reason their soul improved so much, but he couldn't.
The fear of the two Divine Senses' relation scared him. They were way too strong.
His eyes moved toward the two statues, both made of the Spiritbound Startal. "Their Divine Sense is strengthened because they are using that tal sohow. How are they transmitting their senses out of it?"
Alex highly doubted there were beasts inside those small statues. They wouldn't fit. But artifact spirits weren't known to have such strong Divine Sense, were they?
'Well, I can't forget that they could also hold souls of deceased beasts. They would be-' Alex paused. 'Souls! Dammit, I knew I was forgetting sothing. Soulsteel!
Soulsteel was another na for the Spiritbound Startal that Alex had only just rembered. It was a tal that could house the soul of soone whose body had died. It could keep soone's soul alive for a much longer period than if their soul was by itself.
From what Alex rembered, Soulsteel could all by itself allow a soul to handle a few different Immortal Tribulations. Each tribulation made it weaker, until it could protect them no longer.
'Hmm, I see no damage in the slightest, Alex thought. 'And yet, I cannot imagine this statue being new at all. How is that possible?' Alex could hardly answer that question by himself. He had a few guesses at who the souls belonged to, but it all sounded so impossible in his head that Alex had to wait before the truth could be told to him.
The snake and tortoise inside the pool improved at a terrifying rate. Each improvent led to a bigger and bigger push that changed the two beings violently. As more ti passed, the two beasts ca closer and closer to looking entirely different from what they were before. The two beasts, previously brown and gray, were now fully black. And as the blood drained away from the pool again, Alex watched the two beasts co awake from their trance for the last ti as they both realized that they had beco a proper Black Tortoise.
Their eyes failed to hide the signs of their true excitent. Each one scanned their body, realizing all the changes that had occurred.
"Congratulations!" Alex spoke as the two turned around. "You have beco a Black Tortoise."
"Thank you, senior."
"Thank you, senior."
The two beasts answered at the sa ti and looked toward each
other with another look of surprise. It was as if they had just realized that they could read each other's thoughts.
They had ford a bond.
Alex did not have the faintest clue how that had happened at all. The majority of the days he had been attentive regarding their changes had brought along nothing in the direction of them forming a bond.
So whatever had happened had been afterwards, when the two Divine Senses began interacting with the two beasts' bodies.
The beasts remained around for a few minutes longer, making sure that they were in fact fully evolved before notifying the ones outside
and leaving.
Alex watched them go and turned as he was finally alone.
The blood that poured out of the statue was once again the sa thin blood from the very start. Alex waited as it filled the pool, letting the two statues begin the conversation.
After what felt like nearly 20 minutes, they finally did.
"Why are you here?" the voice asked first.
Alex could barely tell that it was the tortoise statue speaking. He
didn't want to misspeak, so he went through his answers before
speaking them out loud.
"The Black Tortoise Matriarch and ancestors gave a chance to understand how a Black Tortoise's evolution worked inside the Ancestral Blood Pool in exchange for my help to the family."
Alex pulled out the dallion he was wearing, revealing that he hadn't sneaked in here and was in fact ant to be there.
"What help?" the snake statue asked.
"I devised a thod to condense the available bloodline of all Black Tortoise beasts into one that resembles the progenitor's bloodline as closely as possible. I have also devised a way for them to absorb said blood to improve their bloodline without any wasted blood."
The two statues remained silent for a while, both taking in the aning of his words.
"Is that the truth?" the snake statue asked.
"Absolutely!"
"I see. Thank you."
Neither of the statues said anything else.
Once Alex was done waiting for them to speak, he asked his own
questions.
"If you don't mind asking, who am I speaking to?" Alex asked.
There was but one na that ran through his mind, but he highly
doubted he would get that na.
And yet, the snake sounded happy to let him down.
"We are Xuan Heichen."
Alex blinked.
That was the na of the Black Tortoise Progenitor.
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