The Classic Either-Or Choice

Fake.

Minkler's dad might have exploded, but Minkler's dad actually staying exploded was pretty unlikely.

Because right beneath Lou Feng and Minkler's eyes, the torrential rain of blood rose once more, flowing toward the sky and gathering again. In the blink of an eye, he was fully restored.

Bustaman laughed wildly, spewing a pitch-black tide from his mouth toward the three-headed, six-armed Boggio!

"Your dad's alive," Lou Feng said.

"..."

Minkler's expression twitched. "I can see that. Can't you tell me something I don't know?"

BOOM!!

Amid the True Word that shook heaven and earth, Blazing Light burned fiercely.

"This move is the Fire of Resentment and Jealousy."

Lou Feng readily obliged, explaining, "The Flawless Temple emphasizes 'true emptiness' and 'extinction,' holding that nothing acquired after birth truly belongs to us. To attain unsurpassed supreme enlightenment, everything outside the self must be considered external—even the self that is not the self is a delusion. The jewel refined through Tumo Samadhi is one's own intrinsic nature, the only true Dharma.

"Everything else, all love and hatred, even compassion, is treated as evil thought and a demonic path, to be stripped away entirely. What's burning now is the discriminating mind the monks stripped from their intrinsic nature, and the resentment and jealousy it produced..."

"Huh?"

Minkler looked utterly blank. "Didn't understand a word."

"Oh. Basically, your dad's on fire."

"..."

Minkler opened his mouth, then stopped.

BOOM!!!

"Your dad got struck by lightning."

This time, Lou Feng kept it short.

Minkler's expression twitched. You just wanted to say that, didn't you!

After another boom, Lou Feng had barely opened his mouth when Minkler raised a hand. "Okay, I get it... You don't need to keep telling me."

In the brief silence, Lou Feng sighed regretfully.

Your dad's got quite a repertoire!

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