Ksitigarbha's Tangled Feelings: Could the Ghost God List Grant Titles in the Netherworld and Take Jiu Feng as a Disciple?

True Person Taiyi left in the end.

Ksitigarbha remained where he was.

His heart felt even more unsettled.

Bitterness welled up inside him. He did not know how to express the tangle of emotions in his heart!

Senior Brother Taiyi's teacher

had actually spent years in Secluded Cultivation, pouring his energy into creating a method suited to his disciple?

With it, Senior Brother Taiyi could siphon off the Netherworld's Fortune Aura and Merit while roaming the Primordial Wilderness freely, unbound by the Netherworld!

But his own teachers...

At the thought, an indescribable bitterness rose in Ksitigarbha's heart.

If attaining the Buddha Fruit had not offered a single step to the heavens without first becoming a Primordial Origin Golden Immortal or a Daluo Golden Immortal, Ksitigarbha would have considered it an immense show of trust and an honor. But now...

He felt only a profound lack of trust

and the sting of being abandoned!

What was more, after all these years, neither of his teachers had come to see him even once!

"Forget it. No use dwelling on this. I should focus on cultivating."

Just as Ksitigarbha cast aside his stray thoughts

and drew a deep breath to gather himself,

a figure in palace robes approached the dilapidated temple. He froze.

Then he knelt respectfully. "Ksitigarbha greets Empress Pingxin!"

"There's no need for ceremony with me. Please rise."

Pingxin glanced around and watched the monk guiding Lost Souls onward. "Ksitigarbha, how have you been these past years? Have you settled into the Netherworld? Have you run into any difficulties?"

Her voice was somewhat cool,

but he could still hear a faint note of concern.

Something shifted in Ksitigarbha's eyes.

He had come to the Netherworld to claim a share of its Fortune Aura and Earthly Dao Authority. Put simply, he had