Above and Below the Bridge

"A man-eating river... Finally, please tell us where that evil river's true body is..."

"Tell us..."

"Us..."

"We..."

"..."

Liu Jian curled up beneath the covers in his bedroom, his eyes tightly shut as echoes rang through his mind.

He found it a little strange. Why were the people praying to him today a group of Miken People?

Those people had always been arrogant and conceited. They always wanted to outdo Eastern Continent and believed they alone were the City on a Hill, so he had never liked them much.

The people of Southern Continent, comparatively speaking, were more obedient and had never posed much of a threat to Eastern Continent. When he chose his territory, that had been one of his subconscious considerations.

Besides, he had listened carefully to their request. It was a little too complicated, nowhere near as easy to handle as those Ordinary Persons.

So his first instinct had been to turn them down.

Unfortunately, the offering they had provided was simply too tempting...

Well, this was also the first time he had learned that offerings could directly collect Alien Power.

That was the information the Red Orb had fed back to him.

As long as he agreed to their request, the Alien Power they paid could be transferred directly to him.

What was that equivalent to? It was like the Expert Power Transfer and Power Absorption Technique from the Martial Arts novels he had read before.

He would originally have needed several more years of cultivation to reach Expert Level, but if he accepted their request, the Red Orb estimated that he could cut several months off his training time in one go.

Moreover, this successful experiment could open up a new path for him in the future.

Previously, when he accepted sacrifices and offerings,