Chapter 425: Alas, this damned worldly wisdom

Inside the dim wooden hut.

A sharp female voice rang out, as if pinched at the throat.

"What intelligence are you reading, looking so serious?"

At the tea table, the young boy with a youthful face dressed in black robes tilted his head slightly to glance at the one-eyed crow on the table.

"It's you, Odin."

Heitian merely glanced at Odin, then turned his head back, his gaze refocusing on the scroll.

"I am looking at intelligence related to Arcadia."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Odin revealed a surprised and hurt expression.

"What? You actually have other intelligence merchants under you besides me?"

"Did I do something wrong? Or is it that you don't love me anymore?"

"I only went to spend a few nights with the Queen, that's all."

"Put away your pretentious act, will you?"

Heitian's gaze never left the scroll as he said with disdain.

"Do you really want me to say it out loud? The crow raised by the Queen."

"What?"

Odin revealed a shocked expression at this moment.

"How did you know I had already retrieved Odin's Spirit Status?"

Hearing this, Heitian raised his head and glanced at Odin.

"First, I did not know you had already retrieved the Odin Spirit Status."

"Second, you and I are just a transaction; it is enough to part on good terms."

"Finally, when did you get the illusion that I trusted you? You are just relatively easy to use."

Well, just a bit greedy, but the work is indeed done cleanly and efficiently, and the speed is high.

After hearing Heitian's explanation, Odin suddenly looked enlightened.

"Fine, it seems our relationship can only be like this."

"In that case, there will be no discount for the intelligence you buy from me!! I originally wanted to give you a discount for the sake of our relationship."

As he spoke, Odin raised his head and huffed in a rather haughty manner.

Listening to Odin's dramatic words, black lines immediately appeared on Heitian's forehead as he said.

"You say that as if you could give me any kind of discount?"

"A 0.1% discount, that is already a very big discount."

Odin's voice gradually grew quieter.

Hearing this, Heitian did not react, saying calmly.

"I want to purchase the latest intelligence on Arcadia; how many intelligence sources do you still have on hand?"

"Oh? You have business?"

Odin's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this.

"Do you want Thousand Eyes'? Or the Hydra's? Or perhaps Arcadia's? Buddhism is also fine; their intelligence is quite cheap lately."

Speaking of this, Odin raised his black bird wings and made a human-like hand-rubbing motion with a sly laugh.

"Of course, this requires a negligible middleman fee."

Hearing this, Heitian looked at Odin with black lines all over his head and said.

"Is there a difference between these intelligence sources? I do not want any intelligence that has been processed by Su Nian."

Hearing this, Odin shook his head helplessly and said.

"Then I am sorry, there are no other intelligence sources."

"Intelligence from Greece is hard to say has not been processed by that woman Athena, and as for the Queen's side, I dare not sell it; I would be beaten to death."

Is this a monopoly? Heitian could not help but show an expression of the impermanence of the world on his face.

He used to be the one monopolizing others' intelligence, but now, for the first time, his own intelligence sources were being monopolized.

"What about Buddhism?"

Heitian still wanted to struggle a bit.

"Buddhism? Buddhism does not dare to sell intelligence on Arcadia right now; they are being toyed with by Canary to the point of misery, what do you think?"

Odin rolled his eyes and looked at Heitian speechlessly.

"Then give me a copy on Arcadia, and make a note not to have it doctored."

Heitian pondered for a moment and said to Odin.

"Alright, boss, no problem, boss."

Odin's tone immediately became very gentle.

"It is just that I do not know which aspect of intelligence you want, boss?"

"The intelligence on this person..."

Heitian suddenly took out a photograph and handed it to Odin.

It was the scene of Izayoi Sakamaki falling from high altitude.

"This is?"

Odin quickly searched his intelligence database, and after a long while, he said.

"Izayoi Sakamaki, a Weapon Against Absolute Evil cultivated by Canary in the outside world, Spirit Status close to Four-digit, related to the Perpetual Motion Machine, powerful physique, suspected to be a God King Candidate."

"Hmm? Is this a newcomer to Arcadia? Would a guy like Su Nian put a newcomer's intelligence into the database?"

Hearing this, Heitian was slightly stunned.

"This kid actually thought the same thing as me."

Everyone has a duty to sabotage Buddhism.

To be fair, because of Canary's anti-corruption campaign, even he made a small profit, tearing a piece of meat off Buddhism.

Moreover, with the World-Honored One suppressing things in Little Garden, he had no way to fully stretch his limbs.

He also wanted to help the World-Honored One escape his predicament, and while he was at it, sponge a favor from the World-Honored One; his requirements weren't high, he just needed to take away the Spirit Status of Vishnu's Ninth Avatar, Liberator Siddhartha.

And isn't this just a coincidence!!

Su Nian happened to be worrying about how to reasonably sell the intelligence on Izayoi Sakamaki to Buddhism.

With this operation now, Heitian instead owed Su Nian a favor.

Sigh, this damned world of human favors.

Heitian shook his head with a helpless smile.

"Now you can sell this intelligence to Buddhism."

Heitian said to Odin with a smile.

"Hmm?"

Hearing this, Odin's gaze suddenly turned strange.

"Is there something special about that little girl's intelligence? A weapon against Absolute Evil?"

In an instant, Odin understood; it turned out this was a setup for Buddhism.

Thinking of this, Odin's tone suddenly became excited.

"Oh!! My intelligence headline can already be written as 'The Miracle girl who slew the evil dragon has been born'!"

"A big deal, a truly big deal!"

She flew several circles in the air in excitement before landing again and asking.

"But having said that, you shouldn't be taking a cut of this business, right?"

Heitian looked at Odin with a smile, his tone calm as he said.

"No, you can keep all the intelligence fees this time, but you had better contact that kid from Arcadia, otherwise..."

Upon hearing this, Odin's face turned bitter, and she said with a worried look.

"It seems I won't even be able to afford feed money this time."

"By the way, there is one more thing: Buddhism cannot know about this matter, understand?"

"Oh~!!"

Odin drew out the tone at this moment, then nodded heavily and said.

"I understand!!"

"I heard that a Mage from Buddhism recently, while visiting a nightclub, accidentally discovered a bag of documents left behind by a guest at the bar counter, and very coincidentally, the documents contained the latest intelligence on Arcadia; even more coincidentally, these were paper documents, impossible to trace back to the owner."

When Odin said this, she sighed with a face full of regret.

"This is truly too regrettable."

Heitian put away the scroll and nodded, saying.

"Indeed, so this regret can only happen once, right?"

"You are too wise!"

Odin saluted Heitian with her wing, then said eagerly.

"Then, can I leave now?"

"Take care on the road~~"

Before the words had faded, Odin vanished with a 'swish'.

At this moment, Heitian put away the miscellaneous items on the table, gazed at the pitch-black sky outside the window, and raised his wine glass in the direction of Spirit Mountain.

——

Heavenly Army, detention room.

Several bald monks draped in kasayas sat squatting obediently in the detention room with dark faces.

And outside the detention room, the Dragon-Subduing Venerable looked at his former colleagues who had been locked inside, not knowing what to say.

"Sigh, Jingzuo Arhat... sigh, you all..."

The Dragon-Subduing Venerable sighed, turned around without the slightest attachment, and prepared to leave this place.

"Wait, Dragon-Subduing! We still have something to ask of you."

"Hmm?"

The Dragon-Subduing Venerable's eyelid twitched, and a bad feeling struck him; no, he had to leave, he had to leave quickly!!

"Through the maneuvering of Kasyapa, you have been arranged to be an accompanying member for the lower realm of Kunsha Heaven."

Jingzuo Arhat said without the slightest pause.

After speaking, the Dragon-Subduing Venerable's footsteps halted; he turned around and looked at Jingzuo Arhat with a dark face.

"Jingzuo? Are you trying to harm me? We shouldn't have any grudges, right?"

Jingzuo Arhat gave a 'hehe' laugh, rubbed his hands, and said.

"Dragon-Subduing, what kind of talk is that? We are all good brothers, how could I harm you?"

"This is a good job."

A good job? The Dragon-Subduing Venerable held a skeptical attitude toward this.

If it were really a good job, would it be his turn?

Jingzuo Arhat ignored the thoughts of Dragon-Subduing Venerable and continued speaking to himself.

"You only need to retrieve a piece of intelligence, and when the Heavenly Lord of Kunsha Heaven Gate descends to the lower realm to purge the Hydra, you just need to deliver that intelligence."

Dragon-Subduing Venerable did not answer, only looking coldly at Jingzuo Arhat.

He had never felt Jingzuo to be so unfamiliar, as if he had become someone unlike Jingzuo Arhat.

No, to be more precise, he had become someone unlike a Buddha!

Afterwards, Dragon-Subduing Venerable did not hesitate, turned around, and left the detention room.

He had originally thought they had merely made a mistake, and that it was not too late to turn back now.

But as it appeared now, he felt they had completely fallen into demonic ways, the kind of demonic fall that could not be saved.

Jingzuo Arhat watched Dragon-Subduing leave without looking back, and grew increasingly anxious.

"Dragon-Subduing, don't go!"

"Hey, Dragon-Subduing, just consider this your brother begging you for the last time!"

"Dragon-Subduing, are you still our brother or not!"

Hearing this, Dragon-Subduing turned around and looked at Jingzuo with a firm expression.

"Fine, this is the last time I will help you."

Jingzuo opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something more, but watched as Dragon-Subduing used Divine Footwork to leave decisively, without a single motion of lingering attachment.

For some reason, he felt a pain in his heart, as if he had lost something important.

But once he thought about how this was the order of Kasyapa and concerned the grand plan of Buddhism, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At least Kasyapa's arrangements had not gone wrong.

There was truly no other way but to have Dragon-Subduing go; who else could it be when, under the investigation of Canary, not a single person in this vast Buddhism had survived?

This Canary truly had some ability; even though they had already destroyed all the evidence, she still managed to find it.

He really did not know how Dragon-Subduing had hidden the evidence of his own dirty dealings.

It couldn't be that this wine-and-meat monk really hadn't eaten any, could it?

(End of this chapter)