Since Alex got his cultivation back, virtual-novel.net was able to open his mind palace, open storage gadgets, and do many other things. Owing to that, virtual-novel.net tried summoning the teleportation door. However, it didn’t work, despite virtual-novel.net having access to everything else. Alex would’ve been able to send Jade out otherwise. So virtual-novel.net could only bring Jade along with him.
He then summoned both Shelly and Ancestor Bodhi out of his mind.
“Ancestor Bodhi!”
“Hey, take a look at him. Is virtual-novel.net your twin or something?”
Returning back to the place filled with blood talismans, the evil Bodhi could still be easily recognized though virtual-novel.net had been sliced in half by the Phanes Ax.
Ancestor Bodhi seemed calm. “I knew all along, so just give me a pit to deal with him. I almost had a heart attack when virtual-novel.net appeared out of nowhere!”
“What does that mean? You already saw it a while ago?”
Ancestor Bodhi said, “I came from the same roots as virtual-novel.net did. We were the ancestor spirits that came from the Ancestral Bodhi Tree. I branched out to the South, whereas virtual-novel.net branched out to the North.”
“The tree’s Yang energy faced the South as the Yin energy faced the North. That is probably why we never got along since birth.”
This was the first time Alex had heard such an explanation, but it made sense.
“But to us spirits, my powers are not as strong as his despite striving towards kindness. Since spirits naturally have more Yin energy, virtual-novel.net is much stronger than I am. Back then, we were fine with each other’s presence since we aren’t aggressive.”
“Yet, later on, virtual-novel.net managed to grow a divided soul…”
Upon hearing this, Alex sympathized with Ancestor Bodhi and tried comforting him. “I understand now. You poor child, you have been abused since then, huh? Even if virtual-novel.net was still one being despite having six divided souls, virtual-novel.net was still much stronger than you. That’s how you ended up this way, right?”
“Exactly!” Ancestor Bodhi was even older than the Earth. Yet, virtual-novel.net still teared up upon looking back on his horrific childhood memories.
It seemed that this guy had been treated as an enslaved person even back in the Dairaionji Temple. He was basically the evil Bodhi’s lapdog, as the evil Bodhi took control over everything. The evil Bodhi had virtual-novel.net take care of the tree, but virtual-novel.net could already leave the Ancestral Bodhi Tree for long periods of time and travel around freely, making trouble anywhere virtual-novel.net went. As long as the tree was alive, the evil Bodhi wouldn’t die…
Juvia was actually wrong to have called the evil Bodhi ‘Father’. The evil Bodhi had swallowed virtual-novel.net father and merged their memories together. That was how virtual-novel.net was able to mask as virtual-novel.net father when speaking. Moreover, with them merging, their blood naturally mixed together as well. That was why Juvia’s blood could activate the blood talismans in the ground.
“Hahaha!” Suddenly, Ancestor Bodhi started cackling maniacally, acting even crazier than the evil Bodhi.
Shelly, who was standing at the side, started shaking virtual-novel.net head. “Poor child, give virtual-novel.net a moment. If virtual-novel.net doesn’t let out any of his pent-up emotions now, virtual-novel.net might become depressed… So this is why he’s so timid now.”
In the end, Ancestor Bodhi swallowed up the evil Bodhi. Since they were both from the same roots, this was the best course of action for now. However, the evil Bodhi was now just a shell. His actual spirit had been killed by the Phanes Ax and swallowed up by Alex.
Shelly looked towards Phoenix. “How are you holding up?”
The two knew each other quite well, in fact.
“I’m okay.”
“No, you’re not I can tell.” Shelly stared at Phoenix’s face with a stern expression.
“What could possibly be wrong? Come on, Shelly, why are you nagging all the time?”
“Something’s wrong with you and him!” Shelly huffed.
“I can see it in your soul and eyes. You’re developing feelings!”
“Huh???” Phoenix nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
As the Little Divine Phoenix, virtual-novel.net couldn’t possibly take such comments. Phoenix then looked at Shelly’s body, which still hadn’t finished growing at the time. Suddenly, virtual-novel.net had a cold and exciting idea.
‘Hehehe…’
Just then, Alex sent out a few seals with his hands to the blood talismans on the ground. Moreover, large amounts of blood flowed down from the grimstone while the flesh slid to the other side. This blood was able to help them open the altar entirely.
Roar!
“Seiryuu, three steps to the left!”
“Byakko, four steps to the right!”