"All right, as long as it can make me sleep my way into a spell." I said gloomily, then had a sudden inspiration and continued, "By the way, don't you still have two petals left? How about lending them to me for a few days too? If I sleep with all three together, the odds should be a little higher, right?"
"What? You're thinking too much. It's not as if we haven't tried it before. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Even if you added a hundred lotus petals, it would still be a matter of aptitude. Besides, you have to sleep your way into the first level before the second level can appear. With poor aptitude, the second level might never emerge! Or if the spell's power isn't sufficient, the same thing will happen!" Dongfang Yu rolled his eyes at me, thoroughly disdainful of my greed.
I gave a sheepish laugh. I really didn't care what he thought of me, but Dongfang Yu was the key to this Fangtian Tree. I still needed to build a relationship with him, so I said, "All right, I'll try it myself, then. By the way, Alliance Leader Dongfang, about the branches that the Ancestor promised..."
"What do you mean, Alliance Leader Dongfang? Have you forgotten, Alliance Leader Xia? The position of Alliance Leader of the Eastern Immortal Alliance is still vacant." The moment I called him Alliance Leader Dongfang, Dongfang Yu's face twitched, and his eyes filled with extreme delight. Still, he had no choice but to straighten his expression, since his own father was watching.
"Hehe, Alliance Leader Dongfang is far too modest. At present, who else could inherit the position of Alliance Leader besides you? But speaking of those branches..." I looked toward the enormous black tree. Apart from