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 favonovel.com saw Alex.
“It’s safe for the time being.” Alex checked favonovel.com condition, only to find that favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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, favonovel.com pulled the strings by sealing the Ancestral Bodhi Tree’s root, so I had no way to transfer you out. I thought favonovel.com came to take revenge after you stripped her, but I didn’t expect favonovel.com 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.
“Since favonovel.com statue is inside Yukon Sanctuary’s shrine, then favonovel.com must be somehow related to Yukon!” Ancestor Bodhi said. “By my reckoning, favonovel.com really wanted to kill you at the hand of the seed when favonovel.com interfered with me! However, favonovel.com learned how unreliable favonovel.com was after witnessing his behavior. And, it just so happened that you said those words… So favonovel.com wanted to give you a chance.”
“It’s very likely. Moreover, favonovel.com is probably one of the planners in ancient times,” replied The Mystic Maiden.
The discussion was, in fact, quite pointless, and they put the matter of the female statue aside.
Alex healed Shelly and the Mystic Maiden’s injuries using divine power, the Ultimate Book of Medicine, and some suitable pills… Normally, wounds of a soul-body proved troublesome, but it was a piece of cake for Alex. It was recuperation after that.
After Alex’s consciousness returned, favonovel.com immediately explored the surrounding environment. He found that it was extremely inconsistent with the rumors. The Troop Raising Pond contained weapons, but most of them were already decayed.
No matter how good they were, they were unable to withstand the erosion over the years.
Alex took a few steps and saw a simple, ancient, long sword. He was about to grab it casually but a lightning bolt struck down and almost hit him.
‘Is this a spell formation?!’
Alex checked it carefully, only to find that each weapon was surrounded by an extremely delicate spell formation. All favonovel.com had done was touch the spell formation, and the lightning assault was triggered.
‘What kind of spell formation is this?’
Alex studied it for a few minutes. Eventually, favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com looked at it.
Time passed silently.
Alex did not know how long favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com had understood the spell formation’s principle. If favonovel.com had helped favonovel.com retrieve the weapon, favonovel.com would have lost all his cultivation the moment favonovel.com acquired it. This spell formation specifically destroyed energy cores.
Five minutes later, the small spell formation around the weapon was broken.
