Supreme Goodness Like Water, Supreme Evil Like Shou; Asking My Friend for Counsel, a Sacrificial Show

A humanoid dog...

The Five Domains fell silent. Everyone listened with their hearts pounding in terror.

At first, no one understood why Zhu Yike had started counting after coming out, or why he had opened the brocade pouch after finishing the count.

The ingenious plan within the pouch was, in truth, nothing at all. It merely told Zhu Yike to...

Tell a story? The moment the story began with "There was a beast," some people had already sensed that something was wrong.

This was too absurd! At such a moment, with all eyes upon him and everyone waiting for battle—

He instead swayed his head and began reciting "There was a beast" to them? But "beast" sounded like "Shou." At first, everyone thought Master Shou wanted to boast about himself in public—through Zhu Yike's mouth, which was still his mouth; it made no difference! Yet as they listened on... no, they did not even need to hear the whole thing. Just a few later lines were enough to make faces change drastically.

How was this self-praise? This was plainly casting aspersions through veiled allusions! On the surface, the entire piece described some humanoid canine beast—even the word "dog" never appeared. Yet as they listened, the concept of a "dog" gradually formed in their minds.

By the end, everyone understood perfectly well.

That humanoid canine beast—wasn't it referring to "Love Dog"?!

"Those x-ray eyes—weren't they the Eye of the Great Dao?"

"Firing without stop—wasn't that the scene when the Evil Sin Bow unleashed its arrows?"

"Wrapped in black cloth—wasn't that pointing at the black cloth draped over Ai Cangsheng's legs?"

"Loves binding itself—wasn't that plainly cursing Great Emperor Cangsheng's Seed-Spell Confinement, saying he liked tying himself up first just for the fleeting thrill of release?"

Too terrifying!

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