The little girl in red was not someone else but the tool spirit of Persephone’s Folly Bridge, Shelly. She came out on her own.
Alex looked at her. “What are you sighing for? You’ve ruined such a good atmosphere with that sigh of yours.”
Shelly pointed at Alex’s nose. “How long haven’t you been earning divine power?”
Alex replied, “Hasn’t it been increasing all the time? When we were at the forbidden area of the Miller family, you seemed to have absorbed a lot of energy from the coffin’s chains. Don’t think that I don‘t know.”
“It isn’t enough. It’s too little.”
“You’re too greedy.”
“You’re too stingy!” Shelly shouted angrily as she pointed at Alex’s nose.
Alex promised to supply a portion of divine power that he had acquired to Persephone’s Folly Bridge. Now she seemed to be complaining that it was too little. The little girl seemingly had some kind of special obsession with divine power.
Alex then asked, “By the way, what do you need so much divine power for? Are you going to eat it?”
Shelly nodded solemnly. “Yes! Can’t you see I’m so small? I’m just like you. You need to consume flesh to grow up, whereas I need to consume divine power. So, Alex, why don’t we go back to the Endless Sea? If we kill the undead demon beasts there, we can get a massive amount of divine power. It’ll be beneficial to us, isn’t it?”
Alex said, “You might as well join me in barging into the Undead Territory and killing the Undying Clan to get more divine power.”
Shelly clapped her hands as her eyes gleamed. “Yes! Yes!”
Alex could only roll his eyes helplessly. “You think I’m not dying fast enough, don’t you?”
Shelly pursed her lips. “I’m just worried that you’ll die in Dairaionji Temple. That place isn’t a place just any ordinary person could enter. Even if you’ve acquired Ksitigarbha’s Legacy, it doesn’t mean you can go in. In fact, Ksitigarbha also won’t dare to say he could escape from there unscathed if he’s alive.”
Alex looked serious. “How much do you know about that place?”
Shelly beckoned Alex with her index finger to ask him to come closer.
“What are you trying to do?”
“I’ll tell you if you give me divine power!”
“20%. Knockdown price. It can’t be more.”
“You can’t even enter Dairaionji Temple’s entrance without me. The River of Reincarnation alone can kill you ten thousand times. 45%, are you going to give it or not?”
Alex froze. “There’s the River of Reincarnation in front of Dairaionji Temple?”
Shelly arrogantly lifted her chin. “That’s right. You will reincarnate once you jump in. However, setting up Persephone’s Folly Bridge on the river can help you cross the river and reach the other shore.”
Alex muttered that Buddhism stressed the bloom of the other shore flowers on the other shore. Shelly did not seem to be deceiving him, and there was probably really such a thing. Weighing the pros and cons, he put up three fingers. “30%!”
Shelly squinted. “Deal!”
Alex’s heart skipped a beat. Had he been deceived? After all, he only promised to give her 10% before.
“Can I go back on my word?”
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