Chaoge Arc: Predicament

"Please, sit here. Here."

Li Dazhi set out two seats atop the clouds and pulled Xu Sheng and Yun Zhongzi over for some casual conversation.

Yun Zhongzi asked with a smile, "Fellow Daoist, you called us here in such a hurry. Could it be to admire this mortal scenery... Uh, this place is truly filthy. Mortals are actually dissecting other mortals... What is this?"

Old Master Xu Sheng also frowned in silence.

Li Dazhi smiled. "No need to make such a fuss. A small problem arose in the Southern Continent, that's all. Ping'an is handling it, handling it. We'll wait here for a while. Ping'an has probably gone to Jade Void Palace. I don't know when he'll return."

Yun Zhongzi said, "Does Fellow Daoist have some difficult matter?"

"It's not exactly difficult," Li Dazhi said after some thought. "I just feel that Ping'an has developed some psychological issues. I know that child. He takes things to heart and easily gets stuck in a rut. I was hoping the two of you could talk him through it."

Xu Sheng shook his silver-white, lion-like head and asked in puzzlement, "Talk the Dao Master through it? How? You think far too highly of me."

"Deep down, Ping'an is still a young man. He listens to what his elders say."

Li Dazhi gazed down at Chaoge City and said slowly:

"It happened like this. I'll start with Old Man Wangri's story. Otherwise, I'm afraid you two won't understand why Ping'an is getting himself so worked up right now..."

Above the clouds, Li Dazhi slowly recounted the tale through voice transmission.

The Heavenly Dao sensed it on its own and concealed their voices, lest they interfere with the normal operation of the karma Great Dao.

Beneath that cloud, an old man sat leaning against a