Chapter 224: Riding Downhill
After finishing this sentence, I looked at Wu You. This time, I didn’t transmit my voice through my heart, but directly shouted at him: “Believe in our brother, I accept! I approve! Do you approve?”
Wu You kicked away Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s staff and laughed heartily and confidently, “Hahahaha, of course it’s the ultimate! It’s mine now!”
I smiled and then looked at Liao Chen and Jie Wuchen. The three of them simultaneously cast a firm gaze at Big Brother me.
Surging passion churned in Big Brother’s heart. After laughing three times, Big Brother roared arrogantly, “Combine!”
Hearing this, Wu You, Liao Chen, and Jie Wuchen transformed into three dazzling streams of light and shot directly into Big Brother’s body. At the same time, accompanied by a world-shattering roar from Big Brother’s body, it came: “Sky Tyrant! Earth Tyrant! Tua~!”
An incomparably powerful aura suddenly erupted. The three pure ones reversed, and the three pure ones merged back into one. In an instant, the entire vast and boundless space seemed to be violently shaken by an invisible giant hand and began to tremble slightly.
Mysterious and powerful energy poured out from Big Brother’s body like a surging torrent. Wherever it passed, the void shattered like fragile glass, turning into countless fragments shimmering with strange light that shot in all directions.
Under the ravages of this power, an incomparably immense energy descended like Mount Tai crushing eggs, seemingly about to turn the eerie and terrifying Underworld upside down.
Even Earth Store Bodhisattva and Zhong Kui were forced to retreat repeatedly by this surge of energy.
“Stop! Stop, son, don’t hit anymore!”
King Yama, my godfather, spoke again to dissuade us.
Everyone else also shut their mouths, no longer supporting Big Brother as they had before, because they were all starting to feel uneasy. It felt as if in the next second, the entire Underworld, along with them, would be smashed by me.
“Nephew! Stop quickly! We won’t fight anymore! Calm down! Uncle Zhong invites you for a drink, stop fighting, stop fighting.”
Uncle Zhong Kui hurriedly begged for mercy.
“Amitabha, Chan Xin, we are all family, no more fighting, no more fighting. Great Lord Ksitigarbha’s temper got out of control, don’t take it to heart, Great Lord. We won’t fight.”
It’s not that the two of them were afraid of losing to me.
Rather, if the aura I was currently unleashing were to be fully unleashed, even if it were over, the Underworld would definitely be completely shattered. And those who would suffer wouldn’t be anyone else but the long-term residents of the Underworld or those Yin Souls waiting for reincarnation.
If the reincarnation mechanism were to be crippled by accident, that would be truly disastrous. The deceased would not be able to reincarnate, leading to a world where people die but none are born, inevitably causing great chaos in the world, and even the destruction of the mortal world.
It’s not terrifying if I destroy the Underworld; I can restore it by gathering energy again. But if I break reincarnation, then that’s a real problem.
Seeing that both of them had given me an out, Big Brother wanted to take advantage of it. However, if I were too pleased, it would make Big Brother seem too guilty.
Although I couldn’t maintain this state for long, others didn’t know that! So I had to put on a show, right?
Big Brother withdrew his aura and said expressionlessly, “What’s up, Great Lord Ksitigarbha, Uncle Zhong? Aren’t you going to ‘shave’ me anymore?”
Hearing me ask this, Earth Store Bodhisattva recited a Buddhist chant: “Amitabha, you and I are originally of the same origin. We won’t fight anymore. I apologize to you, Great Lord. I’ll work on my temper too. How does that sound?”
Zhong Kui also said, “Yes, Da Zhi’er, we’re all family, why fight? Uncle Zhong knows you would never fall into demonic ways. Even if you did, with your ability, you could still come out of it.
Uncle Zhong was just trying to scare you, wanting to see what your real strength was. Don’t take it to heart, Uncle apologizes to you.”
Hearing this, Big Brother also understood the principle of going with the flow. Since both elders were placating me, why should Big Brother continue to put on an act? If I continued to put on an act, it would be truly ungrateful.
Let’s just say that Great Lord Ksitigarbha had guided Big Brother’s cultivation many times before, and my ghost-eating technique was taught by Uncle Zhong.
Hearing the two of them, who were elders, apologize to me, a junior, I felt great inside. However, I am also a sensible person. I instantly changed to a cheerful expression and ran over to massage Great Lord Ksitigarbha’s shoulders: “Great Lord, you are truly valiant! That was too fierce! I know you’ve been holding back and not going all out. If you had truly gone all out, with my small physique, how could I withstand a single kick from you? Hehe.”
After flattering Great Lord Ksitigarbha, Big Brother then went to give Uncle Zhong a back rub: “Uncle, please calm down. Da Zhi’er didn’t mean anything else. I just saw you two arguing endlessly with no solution. You and Great Lord Ksitigarbha have known each other for so many years, and you’ve always taken good care of me. How could I bear to see you two fighting? If you got hurt, I would be so worried and heartbroken, hehehe.”
Neither of them is petty. The fact that they could compromise and apologize to me, a junior, for the sake of all living beings is something that ordinary people cannot do.
In the mortal world, there are many muddled ordinary people who don’t care about their children’s right or wrong, nor whether they are right themselves. They rely on their seniority, act old, and blame all responsibility on the children. Such people truly have no dignity!
Looking at them again, the Bodhisattva and the Celestial Master are not as stubborn as that. They clearly distinguish between principles and righteousness, and there’s no issue of bowing their heads or not. They admit their mistakes when they make them, never considering seniority. What right do you, a mortal, have to act that way?
Admitting mistakes is not shameful. Refusing to admit mistakes and relying on one’s seniority is the most shameful thing.
Juniors too, why argue with a senile elder? Reason with those who understand reason, but what’s the point of reasoning with those who don’t?
It’s the same the other way around. It’s not shameful for a child to bow their head a little. Just like Big Brother, if I’m given a step down, I’ll take it and quickly appease these two elders.
Why would you endlessly challenge your elders? What kind of promise does that show?
Stupid egg, everyone being happy is the king’s way.
As expected, after Big Brother appeased these two elders, each of them transmitted a mind method to me, yahahahaha.
Godfather’s face was saved, and arrangements were made for people to eat and drink to ease the atmosphere.
Big Brother secretly apologized to Godfather: “Father, it’s not that I didn’t listen to you. I saw you stuck in the middle of this matter, and as your son, I was worried. If I hadn’t intentionally acted crazy like that, and Great Lord Ksitigarbha and Uncle Zhong were fighting, you would have been dragged into it. I felt heartbroken, please don’t blame me. Just this once, never again.”
Godfather isn’t a petty or calculating person. He secretly replied to Big Brother: “Damn! You scared your father to death! Next time you do something crazy like this, can you let me know first? You little bastard.”
“Hehe, if I had told you, wouldn’t it have given it away? Then you wouldn’t have tried to stop me so genuinely, and with their wisdom, they would have guessed what was going on immediately and definitely beaten me up, hahaha. Godfather, please don’t blame me.”
