The Ancestral Bodhi in Alex’s mind palace dragged him in instead.
Presently, Alex was throwing demonic cores one after another into the flaming lotus. The great number of instantly-erupting mysterious factors were absorbed by his real body, entering his three thousand golden cores. The golden cores were changing, germinating, and nurturing life.
It was then that a voice shouted in his mind palace, “Hey, rascal. Keep your word. You’ve disintegrated so much immortal Chi. You can’t be having all of it to yourself. Hurry up and give me some!”
The one who spoke was none other than Ancestor Bodhi. He was a fair boy, looking similar to a preschooler.
The Ancestral Bodhi Tree’s vitality reduced greatly after the toxicity of a great demon at Dairaionji Temple destroyed it. He, the tree spirit, had also suffered severe damage and turned into his current state… However, the Ancestral Bodhi Tree was a sacred tree cultivated shortly after the beginning of the world. It had survived countless epochs with its tracks spanning multiple dimensions. The things that it had seen were beyond the imagination of the uninitiated.
The mysterious factors that Alex was currently absorbing, for instance, were actually something called ‘ethereal Chi’. Ancestor Bodhi was the one who had told Alex about that. He had also told Alex that he could disintegrate the demonic cores and extract the ethereal Chi within them with the flaming lotus of Buddha’s wrath.
And, ethereal Chi was something more advanced than immortal Chi.
“Bodhi, take it easy!”
“Let me consume this ethereal Chi first to improve my strength so that I can kill even more demon beasts and disintegrate more ethereal Chi. I’ll naturally give it to you when the time comes, but we’d both be finished if the demon beasts here were to kill me because I’m not strong enough.”
Ancestor Bodhi said, “Your words seem to make sense. You better kill the beasts quickly then.”
After Alex had absorbed all the ethereal Chi, he spat a mouthful of impure Chi. “You’ll have to let me take a break for a while.”
“A break, my *ss. Now that Ihave gotten your physical body here and your strength has increased dramatically, you can just use the resources you’ve acquired in the battle to fight further. What is the point of taking a break? If the divided soul of the True Martial Starlord were to find out that you’re cheating, he would kick your physical body away, and you would be struggling again.”
Alex nodded. “You’re right. I’ll fight then… We’ve killed 979 demon beasts, right? D*mn it. There are still about one hundred thousand of them after rounding up.”
It was then that he received some kind of enlightenment.
He killed no enemies the next month, but hid underground and focused on modifying his martial cultivation techniques.
Bodhi’s Dragon-Tusk. Great Mighty Divine Palm. Ksitigarbha’s Ten Wheels Earth Incantation. Thunder Palm Mantra.
He even modified and adjusted the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell and the lotus filled with Buddha’s wrath.
In the third month, he rushed into a cave of demon beasts. There were at least three thousand abyssal demon wolves inside.
“Taste my new and improved Small Icebound Spell!”
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