He is a pure-blooded dragon in the miniature garden.

Chapter 221 We still don't know what Alger said that day.

For those in positions of power, the most important thing is to clearly understand who their friends are, who their enemies are, and who is opposing them.

Given the current situation of the Heavenly Army, Athena always feels that her position as the ruler of the Heavenly Army is fake, and that the support she receives from Indra, Zeus, and Kurima is also fake.

After several days of meticulous analysis, and by using the final trial as a pretext for action, Athena finally identified her allies and enemies amidst the factions within the celestial army.

In fact, the support of Indra, Zeus, and Kurima was very effective.

Although her marriage to Su Nian didn't bring her much overt support in terms of resources.

However, many groups of gods, especially those from the Taoist sect, the Heavenly Court, and the Thousand-Eyed Ones, were willing to do her a favor and give her face.

Only the Buddhist sect, which is the most powerful, deeply rooted, and corrupt among the heavenly forces, is unwilling to cooperate or give Athena any face. Instead, they seem to be secretly working together to undermine Athena.

The rumors that they are abandoning the existing sandbox and building a new one were secretly released and spread by them.

If other forces hadn't intervened and suppressed the rumors, Athena would probably be facing a headache right now regarding the upcoming council of gods' meeting to discuss abandoning the existing miniature garden.

In this respect, Athena was certain that she still had supporters behind her.

Although those supporters were only superficially willing to give this face, most people tended to remain neutral, depending on Athena's tactics and the outcome of the campaign against Azdakha.

"So, is Buddhism the enemy now?"

Su Nian said with a serious expression.

The Buddhist sect, currently one of only three colossal groups of deities in the miniature garden, are the true behemoths of the garden, their every breath and movement capable of shaking the garden.

Like the Chinese pantheon and the Christian pantheon, it is a force with more three-digit god-kings than most pantheons with four-digit god-kings, and it is also one of the four forces that are confirmed to have two-digit god-kings.

The remaining one is the Thousand Eyes, but strictly speaking, the Thousand Eyes is not a divine group. It is more inclined to be a neutral commercial community. Its leaders, the two goddesses, are mainly responsible for supervising the central hub of the sandbox, and their status is transcendent.

The most crucial point is that the Buddha is the one behind Buddhism, and Buddhism may not necessarily give Kurima any face.

If the Buddhist sect is truly determined to cause trouble, then there is really nothing he can do, not even if Athena intervenes.

If it were Indra, that would be fine. That old guy has some influence with Shakyamuni, so he could just take his Brahma-Indra spear and block the door of those troublemakers.

They're all Buddhist monks, who's afraid of whom? Anyway, if things get out of hand, in the end, it'll just be the head monk who has to mediate.

"Yes, for now."

Athena paused, then said expressionlessly.

Upon hearing this, Su Nian immediately felt a toothache.

He's only two months old, how come he's already going to fight with Buddhism?

No? Is this really something someone his age should be doing?
Thinking of this, Su Nian shook her head and sighed.

"The old folks in this little garden are all really good at getting things done."

Upon hearing this, Athena looked at Su Nian with a slightly strange expression, as if she didn't quite believe it.

When it comes to getting things done, who can beat you? You've turned the sandbox upside down at just two months old.

"Now I'm afraid that the Buddhists will cause trouble for us when we are fighting the three-headed dragon that broke out of the seal."

Su Nian shrugged helplessly.

All the things he's doing now are based on his familiarity with the original work. As for Buddhism, in fact, there's not much mention of it in the original work; it's always been in the background.

That's quite frustrating. Without intelligence, he can't figure out the Buddhist sect's current purpose.

"It shouldn't be..."

Athena shook her head, denying Su Nian's statement.

"Most of the gods and Buddhas in the upper echelons are pessimistic about overcoming Azdaqah. The great gods are more eager to see me make a fool of myself. No one really thinks we can successfully defeat Azdaqah."

"However, we should still be on the safe side."

Su Nian shook his head.

"However, the most urgent task now is to figure out what the real purpose of Buddhism is in doing this."

"Then why not ask Alger?"

At this moment, Athena smiled.

"Arger?"

Upon hearing this, Su Nian immediately understood Athena's meaning.

If there is anyone in the sandbox garden who is an expert on Buddhism, then there is probably no one else besides Arger.

After all, during the dawn of time, Alger had single-handedly challenged the gods, Buddhas, and demons of the three thousand worlds and had persisted for dozens of years without being defeated.

The Asuras and Buddhas of the three thousand worlds refer to the Buddhist sect that joined the Little Garden during the dawn period. In the Little Garden, only the Buddhist sect likes to use the three thousand worlds to represent their cosmology.

"Yes, and I'll also fulfill the promise you made to Alger to help her break the seal and restore her status as a Protoss and a God."

Athena said very considerately, and then took out a roll of parchment from her hand. This was the most famous simulated creation chart of the Greek gods, the Theogony.

"Oh right, I almost forgot, the sovereignty of Argel should also be handed over to you now."

Then, Athena gave Su Nian a black contract, which she had obtained after Perseus cut off Arger's head and defeated Arger in the past.

In this way, even if Alger's seal is broken, Su Nian can still use this contract to control Alger and make him obey her.

Taking the contract and looking at Athena, Su Nian paused for a moment before deciding to give Athena a reminder.

"Nana, I'm summoning Al-chan now."

After all, Athena included Arger in her dowry, which caused Arger quite a commotion for a while.

Now that Argel has been summoned, who knows what kind of surprise Argel will prepare for Athena?

Upon hearing this, Athena nodded slightly, indicating that she understood, while maintaining her intellectual and elegant demeanor.

Then, without hesitation, Su Nian summoned Alger directly through the aura of Medusa on her wrist.

Sure enough, the moment Arger appeared, a large bucket of sulfuric acid poured down from Athena's head.

"Today is another great victory for Al-chan!!"

"Ugly girl, are you ready for Al-chan's surprise?"

Al-chan gave Su Nian a smug smile and made a peace sign.

But then Athena took out a pocket watch and pressed it.

As the hands of the pocket watch turned backward, the concentrated sulfuric acid flowed back into the bottle, which Athena then removed and placed on the table.

"A time-reversing pocket watch, an interesting little gift that can reverse time to a small extent. It was one of the wedding gifts my sister, Onomia, gave me." Athena smiled as she placed the pocket watch on the table.

Upon hearing this, Alger clicked his tongue in displeasure.

"Ugly people are always the most troublesome."

As he spoke, Alger very naturally found a comfortable position on Su Nian and sat down.

For no other reason than to provoke Athena.

Athena frowned upon seeing this, but said nothing.

"Speak up, why did you call Al-chan out of the blue? This is precious beauty time."

Argel crossed his arms and looked at Athena with displeasure.

Even a fool could tell that this was definitely Athena's suggestion to have Su Nian call her out.

Seeing Alger's arrogant demeanor, Su Nian slapped away Alger's arms, which were crossed over his chest, and made him sit more upright on her lap, so that she could hug him more comfortably.

"What else can we do? Of course, we'll remove the seal on your spirit, allowing you to reclaim your former Star Spirit spirit and divine status."

As she spoke, Su Nian gave Athena a wink.

In the name of Athena! Free yourself from your shackles!

Remember it, sing its praises!

This is an epic of the gods!

【Return, Demon Star Argol!!】

Accompanied by the singing, the dazzling starlight burst forth at this moment. It was Algol, located in the distant starry sky, and also the variegated star that represents the devil.

Suddenly, Argel's spirit began to expand—no, to recover, to return to its former peak.

That was Argol, the primordial demon, and Gorgon, who was given the divine status of Medusa when he joined the Greek pantheon.

At that moment, the Demon Star's terrifying madness surged from all directions, expressing its fury and discontent to Athena.

The demon's spirit also awakened, and Su Nian's room seemed to come alive, with a constant sense of being watched and spied on.

Snapped! !

"Put away your power. Do you not want me to rest here?"

Su Nian slapped Alger on the butt, interrupting Alger's imposing aura.

"Oh."

Argel, looking aggrieved, put away his demonic power and then reverted to his previous obedient self, sitting obediently back on Su Nian's lap.

Fortunately, Athena had taken precautions to prevent the aura from leaking out of Su Nian's room beforehand; otherwise, the aura that Alger had just leaked would have been enough to turn the entire Flame City into a city of demons.

As the progenitor and mother of demons, Argir can bestow demonic qualities upon all things, transforming everything in sight into a demon.

It is clear, however, that even after regaining his former spirit status, Alger still has to obey orders obediently in front of his master, Su Nian.

"By the way, Al-chan, how much of your peak power have you regained?"

At this moment, Su Nian asked with great curiosity, because for some reason, Alger gave Su Nian the illusion that he could win even if he didn't care about the cost.

"Peak period? That's probably less than ten thousand times."

Before Arger could speak, Athena answered first.

Argel nodded, not denying Athena's words.

"At his peak, Al-chan was capable of challenging an entire large group of gods without being defeated."

At this point, Arger couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.

"But who could have imagined that when that cunning old bastard Shakyamuni, a super strong person from the outside world, came to the Little Garden, he actually concealed his true strength..."

"They directly crushed Al-chan, who was only one step away from double digits."

At his peak, Alger was at a level where he could single-handedly take on the entire Buddhist sect without being defeated, and this was with the help of the original Christian pantheon and countless other pantheons.

Basically, it can be considered that he single-handedly took on the entire miniature garden.

Argel even had the power to use the mechanism of the sandbox to spread demons and harmful creatures such as spiders, snakes, and crocodiles to all the worlds and eras observed by the sandbox.

He was almost one step away from achieving enlightenment and becoming a double-digit number.

As it turned out... no one could have predicted that the Shakyamuni who led Buddhism to the Little Garden was not some three-digit number, but rather a fully enlightened being who had transcended everything.

His becoming a double-digit number is simply a matter of whether he wants to or not.

Just as Kurima once told Su Nian, among the seventeen double-digit spirits currently in the Little Garden, very few have actually followed the Spirit Rank system to become double-digit spirits.

Many of them were already super-powerful beings from the outer universe, no weaker than those in the double digits. They were simply given double-digit spirit ranks by the central authority of the Little Garden when they joined it.

Just like her, even without the spiritual proof of Kurima, she still possessed strength far exceeding double digits, and so did Shakyamuni.

Quite a few guys have been badly scammed because of this, and Alger is one of them.

She was taught a lesson about life by Shakyamuni.

Especially because of Arger's venomous little mouth, her fate was even more tragic.

Originally a Venusian spirit, but after the sovereignty of Venus was divided up, that identity was gone, and all that remained was Algol, which is the sovereignty of the Variable Light Star.

As for the spirit that once approached double digits and became the embodiment of the opposite of everything in the world, it was completely divided up, leaving only a little bit of the original demon's spirit.

Perhaps, if Alger had been a little cleaner with his mouth and admitted his mistakes a little faster, he might have been released after reciting Buddhist scriptures for thousands of years?
"It is indeed tragic, but I always feel that you brought this tragic experience upon yourself."

After hearing about Arger's past experiences, Su Nian couldn't help but complain.

God knows what Argir said that made Buddha choose to smash her, and made Athena so angry that she wanted to start a war.

Given their temperaments, they generally wouldn't bother arguing with a problem child like Alger, right?

However, Alger has indeed learned a lot of lessons. At least in Su Nian's opinion, Alger is just a little narcissistic now. Apart from Athena, he has never called anyone else ugly.

"But speaking of which, why did you call Al-chan out?"

Argel asked curiously, "It can't just be to remove the seal on her spirit, can it?"

"We would like to consult you about the reasons for the recent developments in Buddhism."

Su Nian briefly explained the situation that Athena and she had encountered recently.

(End of this chapter)