Alex devoured Fu Tao.
He had a hard time, and Fu Tao fought back. Still, he devoured him completely, all by himself.
Once he was done, he looked below him coldly and saw that the spiritual sea had grown much denser than before. At the same time, since he had to wrestle with Fu Tao's spiritual strength while he devoured him, he also had to spend quite a little of his own spiritual energy.
As such, despite improving by nearly half as much as before, his spiritual sea had also depleted by half as much.
"I could've done that if you wanted me to, you know," the artifact spirit said from the side.
"Sorry, that was something I needed to do on my own," Alex said.
Alex didn't want Fu Tao to see the mountain floating in his mental space and run away before he had a chance to even get him.
As such, he also couldn't let Fu Tao see or hear the artifact spirit for fear of him running away.
"It seems you are a bit distr—"
