Same Past Life, Different Present Life

Jiang Li and the people of the Underworld got along splendidly, chatting about heaven and earth and recounting the strange tales each had encountered.

"Back then, the Ten Kings of Hell challenged me together to test my skills. After the battle, King Chujiang even said my punches did not hurt—that I had not even knocked out a single one of his teeth."

"And Houtu Empress pretended to be a female ghost constable and showed me around the Underworld. In the end, she tricked me into drinking Meng Po Soup and tried to make me the ruler of the Underworld."

"Luckily, Meng Po Soup did not work on me. I still remembered who I was, so I did not become the ruler of the Underworld."

"Senior Longbrow Buddha, I saw you in the Time River before, but I worried that speaking with you might affect the course of the world. This counts as our first conversation."

When Longbrow Buddha saw Jiang Li, his heart was filled with emotion.

Nine thousand years ago, he had been the person closest to becoming immortal. When the Immortal Ascension Ladder vanished, his Dao heart had nearly crumbled. For a time, he sought another path to immortality and had nearly fallen into deviation.

Back then, Immortal Elder Changcun told him that beyond the Tribulation Transcendence Stage lay the Great Ascension Stage. Only then did he steady his mind and turn his attention toward the Great Ascension Stage and Great Vehicle Buddhism, believing there had to be some connection between them.

After dying in battle, he came to the Underworld and learned that the Great Ascension Stage had never existed in the world. Only then did he realize Immortal Elder Changcun had deceived him.

He understood Immortal Elder Changcun's helpless lie. The notion of the Great Ascension