"Those who have never drunk muddy water cannot know the sweetness of wine."
"Those who have never wept bitter tears—how could they know how regrettable the present is!"
The filthy water-man rolled through the Sea of Sin. "Hahahahahaha!"
This body exploded in an instant. The Sword Qi contained within this "water skin" let out a crazed shriek, issuing an invitation of destruction to every tangible and intangible thing in all directions.
Countless vile visions were destroyed, only for even filthier, more terrifying vile visions to be born.
The Sea of Sin wailed before the sin-force it could scarcely digest.
Amid the endless howling waves and turbid currents stood an unmoving dark-crimson bodhi tree, hundreds of thousands of zhang tall beyond measure, its girth likewise incalculable, as though it cleaved the sea in two.
Beneath the bodhi tree, in the turbid waters, sat a humanoid form knotted from branches. It seemed to have been one with this dark-crimson bodhi tree from the start, yet was connected to it only by densely packed roots.
"Good, good," it said.
Of the so-called "Three Fiends of the Sea of Sin," the other two were outsiders. Only it was a native.
Of course, it too had undergone its most fundamental transformation because of an outside power.
Dark-Blood Bodhi spoke in a booming voice. "Dantai, why did you provoke him?"
Within the terrifying waves that swept across all quarters and devoured the sins of life and death, the filthy water-man gathered and dispersed by turns. Dantai Wenshu shrieked strangely again and again. "How did I provoke him? I'm a scholar! He went mad for no reason!"
"Ah, good, good." Bodhi Evil Ancestor called out, "Little Evil—"
Screech! Screech! Hiss!
Countless bizarre Sword Qi swarmed toward the ancient dark-crimson bodhi tree like a horde of insects. Sword