The people of Myriad Blessings Platform were the first to take offense at Feng Jun's words. "Do you even know how to talk?"
A High Qi Condensation cultivator stepped forward and spoke respectfully, though with a trace of indignation. "Feng Adept, I am one of the Auspicious Beast's caretakers. There may occasionally have been some oversights, but there is no way we would fail to notice if the Auspicious Beast had grown weary of life."
He had to refute this. Otherwise, once he returned to the platform, the doubts coming from all sides alone would make life worse than death, not to mention that the claim "Myriad Blessings Platform's Auspicious Beast has grown weary of life" would be an enormous stain on the platform's reputation.
He was not the only one saying so. Lin Xiangdong, an Emergence from Dust High Stage cultivator, also said, "Feng Daoist, although this Black Tortoise cannot speak, its intelligence was awakened long ago. There is no problem communicating with it."
If it had been a Wild Beast incapable of communicating with people, then saying that would have been one thing. But this was an Auspicious Beast that had lived in Myriad Blessings Platform for three thousand years!
After pondering for a moment, Feng Jun asked, "Black Tortoises should live in male-female pairs, right? When did its mate pass away?"
Lin Xiangdong blinked twice without speaking. The High Qi Condensation cultivator answered instead. "The Auspicious Beast's mate passed away more than a hundred years ago... Frequent breeding damaged her vitality. Otherwise, the female Black Tortoise should have lived longer."
Giving birth did indeed have a certain impact on females. The more often cells divided, the more people aged, and childbirth worked the same way. Of course, moderate reproduction benefited most females. That was the meaning of