Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

Chapter 2269  Half-Gods

"Whether luck or talent, I'm just glad to know that Pearl could go to God Realm if he had the opportunity to," Alex said. "That means he can reach the peak of current cultivation regardless."

"Should he find the opportunity, yes," the woman said.

Pearl stepped forward, a question burning in his mind. "The first White Tiger," he said quickly. "Why did he have such a high potential?"

"You wish to ask if it was luck or talent in his case as well?" Rosemist asked. "If that is the case, then I do not know."

"No," Pearl said. "Not luck or talent. Was it because of his bloodline, or was it because of the blessing?"

Alex perked up. "Right!" he said. "The White Tiger, all the heavenly beasts, they were blessed by the True Gods. Was that not why the White Tiger was talented? Was it actually because of him being a descendant of a Primordial?"

"Blessed by the True gods? What are you two talking about?" Senior Lin at the back asked. "It's not something the four beasts would so openly talk about. Are you sure you two wanted to say that out loud?" Rosemist asked. Alex paused for a second. "Right. I just thought since you know most things, you would know this as well."

"I do know this," Rosemist said. "You should still be careful."

She turned to Pearl. "The answer to your question is both. They were born with the Bloodline and then they were blessed because of the bloodline."

"Blessed… because of the bloodline?" Alex asked.

"The four beasts, or five I should say, happened to be the beasts with the highest potential, so they were chosen to… to…" Rosemist frowned, her eyes narrowing a little. "Ashamed."

"They were chosen to ashamed?" Alex asked. That sentence made no sense at all. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"What?" Rosemist asked.

"What you just said," Alex said.

"I said…" Rosemist shook her head. "Forget about it. The 5 beasts were chosen to be blessed for their potential. Their blessing didn't make them more talented. It just gave them more tools to be strong."

"To the White Tiger, he gave Strength. The ability to improve to become physically strong with just Qi cultivation."

"To the Vermilion Bird, he gave Vitality. The ability to be Reborn."

"To the Azure Dragon, he gave Speed. The ability to Teleport."

"To the Black Tortoise, he gave Entwined Fate. The ability to Live, so long as the other one is alive."

Alex had known all of this before, but hearing it here again still gave him chills. "He… being the True God," he said. "The Sun God."

Rosemist raised her eyebrows. "Now you're making me doubt my first assumption," she said. "Are you really not a Child of Heaven?"

"I was told about the Sun God by someone else before," Alex said.

"By this man who you talk about?" she asked.

Alex nodded. She paused for a moment. "Does he have any connection with the humans' Half-Gods?" she asked.

"Half God?" Alex asked. "If you mean one of the ones that claim to be gods, then yes. Are they called Half Gods? I had assumed they were called False Gods."

"There are both false Gods and Half Gods," Rosemist said.

"What's the difference?" Alex asked.

"Their name," Rosemist said.

"Their… name?"

Rosemist didn't elaborate any further. She was lost in her own thoughts. "If this man of yours got his information from a Half-God, then it makes sense why he would know so much," she said.

Alex wasn't sure what Rosemist was talking about at this point. The Sky God was a Half-God? If the only difference was their name, then why name them differently?

"You said the first White Tiger was chosen to be blessed because he had a strong bloodline," Pearl asked. "Was this the same for all the of the heavenly beasts?"

"Of course. I already said that," Rosemist said.

"Oh yes, you're right. I guess I'm asking if the rest had bloodline of the Primordials as well," Pearl said.

"Oh, many!" Rosemist said with a wide grin. "The White Tiger is perhaps the only anomaly among the five beasts in that they only have relevant bloodline from a single Primordial. The others have a mixture of two."

"The Vermilion Bird has the bloodline of the Three-Legged Crow and the Nineheaded Phoenix. The Fire and the Healing."

"The Azure Dragon has the bloodline of the Flying Raindragon and the Roc. The Lightning and the Wind."

"The Tortoise half of the Black Tortoise has the bloodline of the Yellow Dragon and the Dragon Turtle. The Earth and the Shell."

"The Snake half of the Black Tortoise has the bloodline of the Flood Dragon and the Flying Raindragon. The Flood and the Rain."

"There are minute traces of other primordials in them too, along with many other beasts that came close to becoming a Primordial but never were —beasts that time forgot— which make them strong."

"And with the blessing from the Sun God, they became the strongest under the Primordials."

Alex became silent for a while, completely speechless with the information he was receiving. His understanding of the Heavenly Beasts and the Primordials was changing by the second.

"The Primordials were so strong," Alex said. "And yet they all still died."

Rosemist nodded.

"When the God Qi began breaking down, the Primordials couldn't sustain themselves. They couldn't cultivate. They couldn't do anything. So, they were the first ones to go."

"Millions of years have passed the last God Qi broke down into Celestial Qi. After a few million years, the Celestial Qi began breaking down as well."

"The Celestial Spirit veins have stopped replenishing, and the last of what remains is slowly dying," Rosemist said. "As life grew and cultivators came abound, the Qi could not sustain itself."

"After a million years, the last Celestial Qi will break down as well. Everything will become weaker, and Celestials will die at that point," Rosemist said with a weird look on her face.

"I wonder… would I still be alive when that happens?"