The Sunlit Heavenly King looked at the two with seventy percent curiosity and thirty percent guilt.
"That was my oversight. You have Converted Beast blood in your bodies, so the Ancestors took you for their own kind."
In a sense, the Ancestors and the Demon Ancestors shared the same origin.
The difference was that the Demon Ancestors had been transformed from animals.
The Ancestors, meanwhile, were the first batch of humans infected by the Blood Moon to become Transformed.
Both had emerged under the Blood Moon's influence.
The Sunlit Heavenly King placed his hands on their shoulders and gave a wry chuckle. "Demon bones, a Demon Core."
"This opportunity of yours, hehe... I've never seen humans receive a Demon Ancestor's inheritance before. You could call it forging a new path."
With that, he waved for them to sit down.
Fortunately, he bore them no hostility over their bloodlines.
Instead, he said with feeling, "You can't learn my martial techniques, nor can you receive the inheritances of other Nine Awakenings powerhouses. Your bodies are only half human, so you will never be able to comprehend the Human Race's supreme arts."
Little White Tiger and Old Ninth's hearts trembled.
A sense of loss welled up inside them.
Unable to comprehend a Nine Awakenings divine ability, they had made this trip for nothing.
Even if other Nine Awakenings supreme arts appeared in the future, they would be unable to learn them.
It amounted to cutting off one of their paths.
As though seeing through their thoughts, the Sunlit Heavenly King chuckled and reassured them, "I only said you couldn't learn other Nine Awakenings powerhouses' unique techniques. I never said you couldn't develop your own."
"Even I can't see through your talents. As long as you don't die, Nine Awakenings won't be your endpoint."