Half a Life Adrift, Regretting Never Meeting a Wise Father

In Lu Bei's understanding, the peacock and the Golden Winged Great Peng were brothers, the former the elder and the latter the younger. Both eggs had been laid by a phoenix.

Amid the complicated changes between versions, the two brothers were either strengthened or weakened. The only constant was that, true to their natures, they loved eating people.

The Great Peng ate the entire Shituo Kingdom. The peacock was even fiercer. When he swallowed people, he accidentally ate Tianluo Head and, after cutting open his belly to give birth, joyfully gained a fine eldest son.

The peacock became the Buddha Mother, working for her son during the day to recruit believers. At night...

Considering how narrow-minded the abbot was, whenever nobody was around, the old mother had surely been ridden plenty of times.

In another version, the peacock did not swallow people. He brushed them away. Unexpectedly, the old Taoist named Zhunti was even better at brushing people away than he was. One Big Slap knocked him back into his true form, and Zhunti rode him straight to the West on the spot.

The stupa was the peacock's nest. With the addition of five-colored light effects, the peacock began the business of recruiting believers day and night.

Oh, right. This version also had a Golden Winged Great Peng named Yuyi Xian. Because he ate things indiscriminately, Old Taoist Randeng rode him away.

Later, the old Taoist changed his appearance and became the Past Buddha. Since he was the past, neither the present nor the future had anything to do with him. His main job was to lie dead inside a Coffin Lid and tell everyone that he was already past, so he did not need to recruit believers, nor would it ever be his turn.

Thus, the Golden Winged Great