Eternal Cultivation Of Alchemy

Chapter 3174 Statues

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 elements present than the last time.

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 immediately.

Alex sat there dumbfounded as he tried to come up with a reason as to why that was happening. Not only were the dead elements 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 elements 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.

Something else was going on. Either there had been more bloodline elements that weren’t present in the pool to begin with, or it had been created somehow.

Alex couldn’t imagine how it could’ve been created, so he could only guess that it was present somewhere 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 mechanism 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 time, 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 metal, was an incredible piece of work. Only an artist could create something so beautiful.

Alex looked around the snake for a second longer, a part of him now fascinated with artifacts beginning to wonder what metal it was made of. A name came to his head, one he had memory of – not his memory.

‘Spiritbound Starmetal, Alex thought.

While the name came to him almost immediately, the other details of the metal escaped him for the time being. The metal had a simpler name as well, but not one he could remember at the moment. He tried to think more about the metal, 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 elements.

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 something spiritual senses were supposed to exist in.

Alex frowned, his eyes narrowing. Had there been times before when he had sensed something 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 time, 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 somehow 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 Starmetal artifact would give him a better chance at seeing its inner workings. That too failed.

‘Is it the metal?’ Alex thought. A part of him was certain that it wasn’t the metal. The Spiritbound Starmetal 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 memories where he worked on an artifact with this metal.

Spiritbound Starmetal was a metal that didn’t have many use cases, given its affinity to quickly acquire impurities while hot. It needed 5 times as much work to be put into it for it to be no better than most ordinary Immortal rank metals.

That was, of course, if one was only focused on its physical properties. The reason the metal didn’t have many use cases was because it was a metal that was quite good at amplifying someone’s

mental strength.

In the memory, the Artifact God worked on a long staff meant 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 Starmetal was meant to amplify spiritual sense and

other mental techniques. It was a metal that accepted spiritual sense more than any other metal. So how come 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.