The Eternal Punishment of Suffering (Third Update)

"We are gods..."

Hu Ma remembered Mr. Longjing had once said that with great pride.

Great Red Robe had said something similar about being invited, too. But looking at things now, didn't it seem like a joke?

Erguotou gave a bitter smile first. "If we were invited down here, why have we never received the treatment we deserve?"

"For the past twenty years, we've had to live in hiding. Even keeping such a low profile, who knows how many of us have been discovered? They were hunted down, tortured, burned to death, ground to death..."

"What kind of gods would live like this?"

They had just seen, during the recent Year-Suppressing Ritual, the scene buried in the depths of the Reincarnators' nightmares. There was no way they couldn't be afraid.

But Tieguanyin only gave a self-mocking smile. "So the truth's out..."

"Perhaps, in the Great Luo Dharma Sect's view, anyone capable of opposing the Tai Sui must be a god on the same level as the Tai Sui."

"But they might have overlooked one thing. Back then, perhaps we weren't opposing the Tai Sui at all. We were simply struggling. Perhaps the Tai Sui had only recently devoured our world and hadn't yet finished digesting the scraps that were us!"

"But whatever the truth, at first they looked upon us, these visitors from beyond the heavens, with reverence."

"..."

She sighed softly. "They watched us in secret and discovered that we were all terribly weak, and had even forgotten our past. So they cautiously awakened us."

"They were also afraid the will of this world would assimilate us and wash away our memories. So they borrowed the power of the oldest Ancestral Altar in this world, summoned the will of countless ancient Pond Gods, and gave us Natal Spirit Temples