Alex froze for a brief moment. He was a little uncertain as he asked, “How long has it been?”
The Mystic Maiden put up three fingers.
“Three days? D*mn!”
Alex immediately became anxious. Since he had not gone out for so long, Daya and the others must have been overwrought, thinking that he and the Mystic Maiden had died in the dilapidated temple!
Unexpectedly, the Mystic Maiden shook her head. “That’s not three days!”
“Three hours? Oh, that’s still fine.”
“How can it be three hours? It’s been three years! You’ve been here for three full years!”
Poof!
Alex was completely dumbfounded.
“Three years? Are you sure? Within three years, there would have been many variables in a place like the Underworld and many dangers in this world. Daya and the others wouldn’t have encountered any dangers, right?”
He jumped up, distressed, and wanted to leave.
Then, he seemed to have remembered something and asked, “Have you ever gone out? Have you contacted Daya and the others?”
The Mystic Maiden waved her hand as she said, “I couldn’t go out.”
“Huh..?”
Alex then learned that the incarnation of the old monk, Revealer Maha, walked into the Buddha body and never came out again as he immersed himself in the cultivation of the Yin-Yang Chi.
The old monk told the Mystic Maiden that he was the guardian here and could not leave this place. After he gave the water of Yin-Yang Chi to Alex, the golden Buddha statue was now in some peculiar state, and there was no way to open the Shoraionji Temple. She could only open the gate and go out after Alex ended his cultivation.
“D*mn!”
Alex shouted strangely, “You’re trying to ask me to die early!”
“This bliss is not the other bliss. Go!”
Revealer Maha gently waved his golden palm. Alex and the Mystic Maiden immediately went out the entrance of the mist filled Shoraionji Temple like riding on clouds.
Thud!
The temple’s dilapidated doors banged shut. It still looked like a small dilapidated temple.
“Go! Let’s head back to the cave and look for them!” Alex said to the Mystic Maiden.
“Wait a minute! Look, there are words here!” the Mystic Maiden said as she pointed at the ground.
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