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Lifetime World.
When Meng Qi entered Meng Chuan's Livestream Room, he was in the Nine Netherworlds. Before him stood Xuan Bei, holding the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens and Ksitigarbha's relic.
Xuan Bei had been Meng Qi's teacher when he first cultivated at Shaolin, and he was also Meng Qi's uncle.
Xuan Bei's path resembled that of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. With Meng Qi, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, behind him, he naturally had a place in this underworld.
Since Meng Chuan's last arrival and departure, Meng Qi had been through a great deal. Returning home in brocade was a must.
He had also struck a bargain with the Azure Emperor, refined a Zhen Ding Tathagata incarnation at the Weak Other Shore level, revisited the Nine Heavens, and traveled to Earth with Gu Xiaosang to meet his parents.
The two of them had even obtained a marriage certificate.
There had been the many affairs surrounding Water Ancestor's reincarnation, a clash with the Heavenly Emperor, Nezha and the Bull Demon King...
And now, he had arrived at Ksitigarbha Pure Land.
As Meng Qi answered Meng Chuan's question about how long remained before the Final Tribulation, Xuan Bei asked him a question of his own.
"The apocalypse has come, the era is nearing its end, and the dead keep coming... What do the Heavenly Venerables and Buddhas intend to do?"
Xuan Bei was worried about how all living beings would survive the Final Tribulation.
He truly had a compassionate heart. This was no performance or pretense.
In Lifetime World, Ksitigarbha had been like this in the past, and Xuan Bei was like this now: kind beyond measure.
Meng Qi told Meng Chuan and the others what was happening on his end in the Livestream Room while answering Xuan Bei.
"From the