Alex put his focus into learning the tortoise's bloodline and concentrating the blood. It took him no more than two months to do it all, including all the safety checks to make sure he hadn't missed anything.
By the end, he had 5 vials of blood, and 30 more days to go. He could've told the matriarch that he was ready to go ahead with the task, but he figured that he could use the time understanding more about Unity.
He wanted to continue with the previous test, only more thoroughly this time.
"I have 7 spirit roots, so I will need to figure out how my Unity is affected based on what spirit roots I'm missing. That's 7 sessions of cultivation with each missing spirit root."
Only, Alex quickly realized that it wouldn't be enough. His tests needed to go beyond just a single missing spirit root and delve into more than that. He would have to test combinations of each missing spirit root, ranging from a single missing to 6 at a time.
