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Chapter 382 - 88 Reincarnation Hall and the Infinite Magic Circle (Request for Monthly Tickets) _2

Chapter 382: Chapter 88 Reincarnation Hall and the Infinite Magic Circle (Request for Monthly Tickets) _2

"Is that so?" you nod thoughtfully, but in your heart, you think, "Trust you? Hell no! A mentor? You would turn your back and light the way as well, wouldn’t you?"

"What will you choose next then?"

"This guy obviously harbors ill intentions; if you help him to escape, he will definitely do harmful deeds to society once out, like sacrificing living people and summoning the Evil God, like other Esoteric believers. Your conscience must hurt... right?"

"But if you don’t cooperate with him, are you going to just watch as a ripe opportunity to fully understand Tailed Ksitigarbha slips right from under your nose?"

"Your choice is..."

Ah?

My choice?

As Xu Shu watched the jumping question marks on the screen, he almost lost his composure.

Comrade, oh no, master, are you playing with me the "do one bad thing in exchange for information" routine?

Are you serious?

Don’t you know this is the future I have foreseen?

Honestly, this was the easiest decision Xu Shu had ever made.

How to choose was not even a question; of course he would accept!

Because, for an ordinary person, this would indeed be a difficult choice.

If one were to sacrifice the safety of some irrelevant and unfortunate commoners in exchange for the information, one might suffer from inner turmoil and guilt from the conscience.

However, if he didn’t exchange information, this would be his closest brush yet with the reality about Tailed Ksitigarbha, and if he gave up, then all his previous efforts would be for nothing.

For a person with a conscience, sacrificing others for self-preservation and sacrificing others for the pursuit of benefits are significantly different.

And Xu Shu, he did not...

No, he still had a little conscience, albeit not much.

But the problem is, this is a journey!

To "act" in exchange for "information" feels like a freebie for Xu Shu.

In the Journey, releasing him suffices; gather the information, then close and open your eyes back in reality, nothing ever happened, but the knowledge stays.

Xu Shu felt relieved and without hesitation immediately chose "trade."

Of course, this does not mean that he fully trusts the other person.

This monk looks rather sinister; he could well be lying.

The best way is first to see what his aim truly is.

"You have made a decision and have decided to cooperate with him."

"Very well, the Tai Chu Scroll has seen it, and you will achieve a win-win situation."

"Win-win means you win twice, and the other party gains nothing!"

"Seeing how straightforward you are, the monk is also very satisfied."

"You immediately ask, ’You first say it, and after you have, I’ll help you.’"

"With a smile and a twirl of his fingers, he told you, ’I know what you are worried about. Do not worry, patron, we can sign a blood oath contract."

"As he spoke, he tore a piece of human skin paper from his own chest and dripped blood onto it."

"After a brief contemplation, you also cut your palm and smeared a little fresh blood."

"As the gold letters on the human skin paper briefly shone and then faded, you felt a contract being established between you, knowing any breach would strike you with a force beyond your current strength."

"’The cause and effect between us are now entangled; we cannot back out now, so I might as well start speaking.’"

"The monk was confident about his human skin contract and so answered your triple question: ’What is Tailed Ksitigarbha? Where is this? How to get out?’"

"First to the first question, he told you: ’Tailed Ksitigarbha is a Primordial Spirit, a true Primordial Spirit! It emerged from a fusion monster born after the final battle between defenders and betrayers, seemingly powerful with a divine-level status above the fifth realm, but it is merely the fodder for a lamb, nothing but a chaotic cultivator.’"

"Hearing this, you instantly knew the other party indeed had a huge background, which highly matched some of your previous conjectures and experiences. It seemed he was not lying, but whether the truth was whole or lacking was unknown."

"You know that Ksitigarbha and the Death God, Althias, hold a grudge. Based on certain descriptions, you conjectured that the so-called ’defender’ must be Ksitigarbha, who has sworn ’not to attain Buddhahood until Hell is empty,’ and hence the ’betrayer’ naturally is the ’Death God’, ’King of Infinity’, Althias, manifesting as a giant tentacled monster."

Hmm?

Seeing this, Xu Shu’s eyes lit up instantly.

He knew one of his former conjectures had indeed become reality.

"Ksitigarbha once told my secondary account, Arthur, saying, ’What is fated cannot be escaped,’ thus he chose to embrace his fate and decided to no longer hide from Althias’s pursuit but to fight him openly."

"In the end, it formed a Primordial Spirit, namely Tailed Ksitigarbha. Judging from the many Octopus Brothers among the believers of Tailed Ksitigarbha, it seems that Ksitigarbha likely lost...

"However, what this monk said about a fusion monster implies, it seems, Althias didn’t completely win either?"

"So it was a pyrrhic victory? Althias still seemed to have the upper hand..."

Xu Shu stroked his chin thoughtfully.

However, there was another point that intrigued him even more.

The Primordial Spirit was a super existence above the fifth realm, which was completely unexpected.

Surprised, he touched the small jade Buddha tied around his waist, "Primordial Spirit·Wisdom: Narrow Sleeve Guanyin."

Tailed Ksitigarbha, after all, was the product of a battle between two divine-level beings, Ksitigarbha and Althias, and considering its various bizarre performances, it certainly fits the "divine-level" designation.