530 [Clues to the Gluttonous Ghoul's Next Advancement]

He Zhao sensed the Skull of the Great Vehicle Buddha within his Mental Space and found that it had not vanished because of the Rollback. He could not help smiling in relief. Then he immediately set to work on the second seduction. Luring and hooking up—forget it. Seduction it was.

But when their auras intertwined and the mature Great Vehicle Buddha instinctively prepared to switch lairs, sending out its rock-solid Life Qi in full force, he suddenly discovered that he could not absorb it.

It was as if one mountain could not hold two tigers. Though the Life Qi came from the same source, it still obeyed a rule of repulsion between like kinds.

If he wanted to contain the Great Vehicle Buddha's Life Qi from the second Rollback, he had to expel the wisp of Life Qi he had absorbed before the Rollback.

"???"

Why? On what grounds!

He had worked so hard, even going so far as to sell his looks, to get his hands on Life Qi that belonged to a god—so why couldn't he? Wearing a worried expression, he rubbed his chin and pondered for ages, yet still could not figure out what the underlying principle was.

However, he had one strength: if he could not figure something out, he simply threw it to the back of his mind and stopped dwelling on it.

Just because I can't do it doesn't mean other ghouls can't.

Perfect. The Great Vehicle Buddha's rock-solid Life Qi could be used to nurture the few Blood-colored Great Ghouls he had.

"Hmm?"

When he drove the Substitute Ghoul, the Possessing Ghoul, and the Yitong Ghoul, he suddenly discovered that they did not burrow out from the Skull of the Great Vehicle Buddha, but instead emerged from his own head.

"Wait. My head