"Phantom Shadow Buddha, you captured me and brought me back. Why not kill me?" Uchiha Shin sat down on a nearby rock and asked.
"Who said I wasn't going to kill you? I'll boil you and eat you later!" Phantom Shadow Buddha said viciously.
Uchiha Shin burst out laughing again.
"What are you laughing at?"
"If you truly wanted to kill me, you wouldn't have brought me back to the Thousand Buddha Tree, much less talked about boiling and eating me." Uchiha Shin said. "If you have something to say, just say it. Stop beating around the bush."
Phantom Shadow Buddha walked over to Uchiha Shin and revealed a cold smile. "You really are a smart kid."
"Do you know what we Evil Spirits are? Why we appeared in this world? And how we came to exist?"
"How would I know?" Uchiha Shin said. "All I know is that I'm going to wipe all of you out."
Phantom Shadow Buddha sat down beside Uchiha Shin. "We Evil Spirits are merely shadows of the Buddhist sect."
"Shadows?" Uchiha Shin looked at Phantom Shadow Buddha in confusion.
"We are a shadow of the Buddhist sect—their darkness."
"Darkness!" Uchiha Shin was even more astonished.
"Don't think the Buddhist sect has no darkness. Wherever there is light in this world, there is darkness, because darkness must lie on the other side of light."
As Phantom Shadow Buddha spoke, Uchiha Shin found himself rather agreeing with those words.
"Just like humans, every person has evil within their heart. It is only that good people keep that evil forever suppressed deep inside, never allowing it to surface."
Phantom Shadow Buddha continued.
"Cultivators train both their bodies and their spiritual realms. Inevitably, they must face the evil thoughts buried in the depths of their hearts. That is