Western Continent

[Female Earth] rumbled.

The dark light filling the sky transformed into countless white bats beating their wings, clustering around a colossal creature.

Its wings blotted out the sky and sun, its eyes were crimson, and all manner of Earth Virtue qi churned across its body, transforming into dense layers of scales...

It was none other than the [Female Earth] Great Sage—Gui Sang!

The colossal creature suddenly flew into a Grotto-Heaven, its form instantly shrinking to something incomparably tiny.

Purple qi brimmed all around, while white immortal qi rose up, bearing a palace aloft.

At the end of the jade steps stood a man.

He wore a Daoist robe, yet looked remarkably young.

"Gui Sang... pays respects to Master!"

The [Female Earth] Great Sage transformed into a little novice monk clad in a ragged gray kasaya and bowed with utmost reverence.

When he had received that remaining [Ketu] seat, he had sensed a thread of profound mystery.

After the three sermons ended, he immediately began painstaking contemplation.

At last, he penetrated its mysteries and was able to enter the Heaven of Purple Firmament once more!

"Still calling me Master?"

Fang Qing stood with his hands behind his back, looking at this reincarnated body of Sangji with a smile.

Gui Sang only felt the scene before him constantly shifting. White skeletons danced, frost flowers filled the sky, forming the Lord of the Charnel Forest's Twin-Bodied Form!

Then milky-white radiance continuously gathered, taking the shape of a Buddha whose face brimmed with compassion.

It was that Namo White Bone Manifestation Great Compassion Tathagata!

In that instant, he understood his former life in full. Smiling as he held up a flower, he respectfully kowtowed. "Sangji... pays respects to the Venerable One!"

"Not bad, not bad..."

Fang Qing stood with his hands behind his back.