Shelly and the Mystic Maiden’s soul bodies were injured and were breathing slightly sluggishly.
“How is it going out there?” The Mystic Maiden asked when she saw Alex.
“It’s safe for the time being.” Alex checked her condition, only to find that she was severely injured. Her physical body had been ruined due to the previous injuries, but it was in bad shape this time. The seed’s strength was no joke. Although merely a mental body, it was an existence they couldn’t resist even after joining forces.
“It is safe? Didn’t the seed catch you?”
“He wants to do that, of course, but I’m afraid he can’t. I’ve entered the Troop Raising Pond. Each of them possesses a relatively high cultivation level, beyond the limits of the Troop Raising Pond. Lorelei wouldn’t have allowed me to retrieve the weapon, otherwise.”
Shelly was startled for a moment. “There were so many of them, yet you managed to do this. You’ve exceeded my expectations.”
Alex was dejected. “I may have to disappoint you then because I didn’t meet your expectations. I didn’t hide inside on my own. Someone kicked me in here.”
“What? Who kicked you into the Troop Raising Pond?”
“The female statue.”
“That’s really strange. What’s going on with it?”
Ancestor Bodhi asked. “At first, she pulled the strings by sealing the Ancestral Bodhi Tree’s root, so I had no way to transfer you out. I thought she came to take revenge after you stripped her, but I didn’t expect she would save you in the end.”
Alex said, “She listened to me and even gave me a warning since I wanted to become the real seed. She would turn me into a pig in my next life if I were to fail.”
“Become a pig in your next life?” Shelly snorted. “You don’t have to wait for that! You’re already a pig in this one! A boar!”
Alex asked, “Why do your comments taste like a sour grape? Are you jealous?”
“Get lost, bast*rd!”
After that, they discussed the female statue’s origin.
‘What kind of spell formation is this?’
Alex studied it for a few minutes. Eventually, he confirmed that the spell formation that comprised those symbols differed from normal formation patterns. Instead, they were some sort of cuneiform!
The symbols of ten thousand spell formation flags stored in his ring matched those symbols… Descriptions about such a spell formation were also present on that scroll. He then meticulously studied the symbols of the spell formation located in the interior of the Troop Raising Pond, trying it out as he looked at it.
Time passed silently.
Alex did not know how long he had been studying, but eventually, on a certain day, an epiphany enlightened him. He suddenly understood many previously incomprehensible things.
Alex couldn’t help cursing the woman in white, Lorelei, because he had understood the spell formation’s principle. If he had helped her retrieve the weapon, he would have lost all his cultivation the moment he acquired it. This spell formation specifically destroyed energy cores.
Five minutes later, the small spell formation around the weapon was broken.
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