"Didn't you tell me that your ideal was to lie around while your junior brothers and sisters handled everything? What, were you lying to your master?"
Seeing Wu Chu helplessly resort to shameless whining, the Patriarch laughed.
Wu Chu gave a helpless bitter smile. "How could that be the same? This thing is far too tempting! With a chance to attain the Dao and become a Saint, who would willingly give it up? Your disciple isn't stupid."
The Patriarch's smile faded as he shook his head. "Every living being must pay the corresponding price for their choices. I told you not to do something, yet you insisted on doing it. Then you must bear the consequences. There is nothing unfair about that, and you cannot blame anyone else."
After a pause, the Patriarch continued, "Besides, it is not as though I have given you no chance. I merely asked you to make a choice between yourself and Red Cloud. Compared to him, you still have a choice. Does Red Cloud have one? Would that not be unfair to him?"
"But Master, those two Western brothers have not done anything either, have they?"
"The Dao they have comprehended benefits all living beings. That is why they are destined to have this opportunity." The Patriarch looked at Wu Chu. "By comparison, I have yet to see any Dao in you that benefits all living beings. Though you were the first to enter my sect, compared to the others, I cannot see your future clearly."
Wu Chu fell silent again upon hearing this.
It had to be said that the Patriarch's insight was exceptionally sharp.
The three Kunlun brothers had their Three Teachings, the two Western brothers had the Western Religion, and Nuwa had her Dao of Creation that could create humanity. What