The Sea of Suffering is Boundless, Turn Back and You'll Find the Shore

Peach Mountain Battlefield.

King Dizang watched the enraged Yang Jian, his face still wearing that expression of boundless compassion.

"Benefactor, your murderous karma is too heavy. The resentment in your heart has already become an inner demon."

"The sea of suffering is boundless; turn back, and the shore awaits."

"Your mother's suffering is her karma. What you do today will not only fail to save her, but will instead bring greater sin upon yourself and your sister."

King Dizang's voice was like a curse, every word viciously stabbing into Yang Jian's most painful wounds.

"Karma? Sin?"

Hearing those two words, Yang Jian laughed in extreme rage, his laughter hoarse and mad.

"Hahaha... What fine karma! What fine sin!"

With bloodshot eyes, he fixed King Dizang in a deathly stare and demanded, word by word, "My mother, Yaoji, merely fell in love with a mortal, yet her own elder brother—that lofty Jade emperor Haotian—had her pinned beneath Peach Mountain, where she suffered a thousand years of torment without ever seeing daylight! Tell me, what karma is that?"

"I, Yang Jian, was branded a bastard from birth, hunted by a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, surviving nine deaths for every one life! Tell me, what sin is that?"

"You people, always mouthing benevolence, righteousness, morality, and compassion—where were you when my family was suffering?"

"Now that I want to use my own hands to save my own mother, you jump out and preach to me about some bullshit karma and sin?"

"I'm telling you! Even if the King of Heaven himself came today, don't dream of stopping me!"

"Get out of my way!"

Yang Jian erupted completely. No longer paying heed to King Dizang's crooked, heretical nonsense, he gripped the giant Shield-Axe and cleaved at King Dizang once more!

He would use the