Half an hour later…
Yuno’s soul still couldn’t seem to stabilize. Yet the ball of green light became brighter and brighter.
Yuno smiled softly. “Stop wasting your energy. Once I return to my original body, I am still part of the Peacock Heavenly King.”
Alex stopped and let out a deep sigh.
Just then, the peacock gestured towards the light, returning it back into herself. She was stunned for a brief while. “The soul is still somewhat unstable, but you managed to retain her memories. You did very well already.”
As she merged Yuno into her soul, she went through her memories.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, the peacock frowned as she found out that there were scenes of sleeping with Alex within Yuno’s memories… She obviously didn’t sleep with him as herself, but she was in Phoebe’s body instead. However, the memories were simply unacceptable when Yuno had taken over Phoebe’s body.
As an ancient god, the Peacock Heavenly King couldn’t possibly leave such dirty memories in her body, as she would be only tainting herself.
Whoosh!
The peacock stopped the merging and used her pure divine power to cut off Yuno’ divided soul, even going as far as slicing through the part where it was connected to her actual soul.
She huffed. “I don’t want this divided soul anymore.”
“Huh..?” Alex froze.
‘How could she just say she doesn’t want it?’
“I’ve already cut off the mark of the Peacock Heavenly King within the divided soul. Her memories are not mine. You can just let her go back to that Phoebe human. Just take it as a thank from me!”
Alex was dumbfounded and immediately caught Yuno’s soul with his hands.
Dorothy pointed toward her man. “He is the future Buddha.”
Agatha was so shocked that she nearly bit her tongue. “He’s going to be Buddha? He had so many women! The holy realm would become a whole brothel.”
Alex spoke up again. “Sister Agatha, now that’s where you’re wrong. The holy realm isn’t only for virgins. It’s a religion, a type of faith, and a type of law. One of the laws within the colossal cultivation of heaven and earth actually.”
“It has nothing to do with sex. Both men and women can join Buddhism, even couples. There is a ‘no marriage’ rule for Buddhists in the mortal realm, only because they are worried, we don’t have enough energy and willpower. Hence their journey in Buddhism would end up getting disrupted by trivial things.”
“However, if one were to be intelligent and determined enough, one would still be able to complete their journey regardless.”
After a short pause, he continued. “More importantly, I’ve been to the Dairaionji Temple!”
The Peacock Heavenly King gasped. “You’ve been there before? You’re not joking, right? Don’t trick other people, or you’d be seen as a clown!”
Alex muttered to himself. “But you’re not exactly human, are you?”
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