Blink!
A white ray of light appeared before Alex’s eyes. It awakened his blurred mind like a ray of hope. His spirit became high… The seemingly endless negativity turned from its strong presence to a slow retreat.
“No, wait, what’s this?” Alex’s mind gradually became clear, seeing the true source of the white light.
‘Is that a planet… No, a woman… A goddess!’
‘It’s… Shelly!’
“This bead is called the Starbound bead. It should be of some help to you, but I can’t do much about the demonic, corrosion of the Blue Demonic Lotus. You have to go through this challenge with your own willpower!”
“Here’s another nine hearts. This is all we can give you. You’ll have to go through the remaining fights on your own.”
“The journey will be tough, but as long as your will is sincere, you’ll pass this challenge easily.”
“It’ll be as easy as picking up a girl.”
Alex nodded and faced the strong negative attacks straight on.
Outside, Shelly and Ancestor Bodhi stood next to each other.
Ancestor Bodhi looked like favonovel.com had just met a ghost. “Shelly, you told favonovel.com it’ll be an easy challenge? But to my knowledge, in this world and in past history, some had indeed tried to gain great powers by attaining the Blue Demonic Lotus. ”
“Unfortunately, no one succeeded, and they all died painful deaths.”
Shelly slumped to the ground, no longer looking at how Alex was doing. Instead, favonovel.com observed the space within the Cleansing Vase. “We can only make a bet on Alex! If we lose, it’ll be the end of the Siddhartha realm.”
Ancestor Bodhi paused for a moment, then finally nodded. “You’re right. There are too many rules in the Siddhartha realm, we’d be better without it anyways! I love alcohol!”
He searched for a while and took out a bottle of beer. He was about to open it and drink it, but Shelly snatched it over and drank it immediately.
“Buddha, Amitabha!”
“Amitabha, Abhava!”
One of them looked like a twelve year old girl, while the other looked like a young monk that was about seven. However, the meaning of the words these two had spoken could never be fully understood by many in their whole lives.
***
Two days later, Alex was getting frustrated.
He had no idea what the Blue Demonic Lotus was. Believing it was just a normal lotus that grew in the demon realm, favonovel.com had used all his powers to purify its negativity. The Starbound bead and heart were also fighting the nine lotus seeds.
However, they had no effect on it.
After the nine seeds entered his mind palace, they would plant themselves within his Heavenly Self-renewing Soil and wouldn’t come out… It was as if they treated Alex’s mind palace as their own home.
Soon, the land sank and became like a swamp. What angered Alex more was that the Starbound bead had planted itself into the soil too as if planning to reproduce.
‘It can’t possibly grow another Shelly from the soil next year?’ Alex thought He was, however, relieved that things were calm now.
Alex was clearly disturbed. According to Shelly, refitting the lotus should’ve been very easy. It was supposed to be so easy that any weakling could pass through despite having lousy willpower.
However, as favonovel.com went through the process, favonovel.com felt stuck. It was like his mind was about to give up at any time. It was definitely not as simple as Shelly had described.
Alex was even starting to doubt if his will was weak. Finally, the weird ax within his mind sent out a wave of pure energy and shook the negativity of the nine lotus seeds away. Only then did Alex let out a sigh of relief. The stalemate finally came to an end.
Besides, the nine hearts combined with Alex’s pond and formed a sea. It could be found in each golden core.
Whoosh… Whoosh…
