After thinking over everything that had happened here from beginning to end, I finally understood.
Erha said this was one of my trials, and Ksitigarbha had said the same. I had to rely on myself to overcome it; he could not interfere. After all, if his power had truly not been restricted, killing Yangjin would have taken no time at all. As long as he killed Yangjin, I would have been able to return.
But now, it seemed Yangjin should not die.
Yangjin had come to seek revenge. Of course, she eventually gave up, because if the Tumba Family could be saved, why insist on an ending where the family was wiped out?
Yangjin had committed no grave wrong.
On the contrary, I rather admired her. She was a remarkable woman of loyalty and feeling.
I had originally thought she had returned to indulge herself and live a luxurious life. But that was not the case. She had returned solely for revenge, at any cost. She did it for all those members of the Tumba Family who had died. She believed that disaster back then had been caused by her, and she wanted to give those who had died unjustly an explanation—while also giving one to herself.
In the end, I talked her out of it. Naturally, the Great Living Buddha also deserved credit. He had exhausted his dharma power to give Yangjin a chance to correct her mistake.
And as for me, in the Great Living Buddha's words, the Tumba Family had risen because of me and perished because of me. Yangjin was correcting her mistake, so was I not doing the same?
I had come for only one purpose: to stop Yangjin from making a mistake.
Now that things had come this far, I understood the key to