"What did the Bodhisattva mean by that?"
Ye Tian's expression changed, growing less than friendly.
"My damned original self left and abandoned this place for who knew how many tens of thousands of years, making me stay here alone in bitter vigil for the appearance of some so-called fated person. Yet I waited tens of thousands of years without a single soul coming here. Now you are the first, but once you obtain the legacy, I am to vanish from the world forever. If it were you, would you be willing to accept that?"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's face turned somewhat ferocious as he spoke to Ye Tian.
Ye Tian merely watched him calmly as his appearance changed.
Unhurried, he slowly took two steps back.
"Hehe, hahaha! Even if you fled to the ends of the earth, there would be no escape. I have already entered your sea of consciousness. Everything here will now be under my control. If I want you to live, you live; if I want you dead, you die. But do not worry. Once I take your body and leave this place, I certainly will not let you remain ordinary. That legacy... is mine!"
The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva before him no longer resembled a Bodhisattva at all. He was more like a man-eating evil ghost crawling out of hell, clamoring to devour someone.
"I truly wonder what kind of person the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of old was, to leave behind an evil thought such as you."
Ye Tian frowned.
"That is right. I am indeed a wisp of his evil thought, but he forced me into it as well. He made me guard this place for tens of thousands of years, enduring endless dull and barren days. Now that someone has finally come, could I really hand you the legacy