"Um... Ye Chen was disrespectful. I shouldn't have spoken rashly about the Bodhisattva's appearance in her presence. Please forgive me, Bodhisattva." Ye Chen quickly bowed deeply to apologize.
"It's all right." King Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva waved her hand lightly. A powerful force immediately held Ye Chen in place, then lifted his upper body upright.
Ye Chen looked at King Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and saw her smiling back at him. He felt too embarrassed to meet her gaze, so he quickly lowered his head.
"The world is illusory, like a dream, a bubble, a shadow. Only by casting aside appearances can one see the true nature of one's heart," Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva suddenly said.
Ye Chen raised his head and looked at Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, but she wasn't looking at him, as if she hadn't spoken to him at all.
"Monkey, what did the Bodhisattva mean by that?" Ye Chen quietly asked Sun Wukong again, but Sun Wukong gave him a strange look.
"Tell me, are you running a fever? The Bodhisattva hasn't said a word since she helped you up, you silly boy." Sun Wukong had a smile on his face. Though he didn't actually laugh, Ye Chen could still sense the mockery in it.
"You cheeky monkey..." Ye Chen raised his hand as if to hit Sun Wukong, but suddenly realized that the Bodhisattva had said those words specifically for him.
But Ye Chen couldn't understand why she had said that to him. He didn't even know where his true nature lay. When it came down to it, he didn't know why he had set out to obtain the scriptures at all.
It wouldn't be wrong to say he was doing it for the secrets he carried, but Ye Chen knew that wasn't what he truly wanted deep down.
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