Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy-Chapter 2618 Grow in Beasts

The so-called 'curse' or 'evil' of Hell was not something that only affected the people living in it. It affected the beasts as well. That was a good enough reason for beasts to evolve with sunhearts in their body, which would suck away all the Yang from the surroundings, letting them live.

Humans somehow ended up harvesting the sunhearts for themselves.

He asked a few questions to confirm that and asked a question that he didn't have an answer to.

"Do you believe that the beasts here have lived for longer than humans have?" he asked.

"I don't think so," the old man said. "Our history goes back so far back that it is difficult to say."

"Why do you think humans didn't evolve to have sunhearts too? Or find a way to fight the heat just like the beasts do?" he asked.

The old man considered the question and found himself unable to answer. This wasn't something he had truly ever thought about. It was difficult to give thoughts questioning the obvious.

In the end, he couldn't answer Alex. "It is just how it is," he said. "Maybe the beasts did exist long before the humans did, so they got to survive because of that."

That was the only possibility that Alex could see as well. Beasts had to have come first, and only then did the humans come. Alex still had questions on how their language was the same as his, but that wasn't something he would gain any info about through these men.

"Why did you guys keep swapping around the storage bag?" Alex asked. "It had a sunheart, right? Why did the beast want the sunheart?"

"For two reasons," Orla quickly said. "First, these beasts are very territorial. They do not like it when someone else intrudes upon their space. So, the moment they sense something else with a sunheart, they immediately attack, to the point where they are even willing to fight to the death."

"They can't run," Bajan added from the side. "They believe that they will die anyway, so they fight as long as they can."

Alex slowly nodded. "And the second reason?"

"For the sunheart," Orla said. "If a beast that has a sunheart consumes a sunheart, it can absorb the consumed sunheart to make its sunheart bigger, allowing it to gather more of the heat, allowing it to go further into the desert."

"Why go further into the desert?" Alex asked.

Bajan shrugged and turned toward the old man for an answer. The old man shrugged as well. "No one knows. All we know is that the strong beasts are deeper in the desert, so these ones go there too. It's like their instincts force them to go there. And they sure do benefit from it."

"They must be way stronger deeper in the desert for you to say that," Alex said.

"They are."

Alex had another question. "Do the regular beasts without sunhearts gain a sunheart if they eat one?"

"No. That is not possible. If a regular beast eats a sunheart, the beast will just end up dying instead," the old man said. "And that is just trouble for us all."

"So, that is not the reason why they attacked us so many times last night?" Alex asked.

"No, they attacked us because we are food to them," the old man explained. "These beasts can't hunt during the day because the territory belongs to the stronger beasts with sunhearts. However, at night, those beasts can't stay out because it gets far too cold for them. So they choose to go deep underground instead."

"Those other beasts take that opportunity to finally come out searching for food. That is why there were so many of them," the old man said. "As the night ends and the day approaches, they disappear, with only a few brave ones remaining behind."

"That is why we haven't had to fight many beasts since the sun came up," the old man said. "But of course, at the same time, what we did fight will always be much stronger during the day."