Li Ning urged X in Ru to turn back and reach the shore of salvation, but how could she take his words to heart? His addressing her as senior sister displeased her all the more.
Within Buddhism, monastics addressed other monastics, and lay practitioners addressed other lay practitioners, as senior or junior brothers and sisters whenever there was no clear distinction in generational rank. When laypeople met monastics, they generally addressed them as master, regardless of whether they had taken refuge or received a Dharma name.
Li Ning was Chan Master Bai Mei's disciple, and there was no clear generational relationship between his lineage and X in Ru's. Calling her senior sister was not wrong.
But X in Ru considered him a junior. For him to dare address her that way was an insolent affront.
Ignoring whatever Li Ning said, she manifested her Wrathful Manifestation directly from the void.
This wrathful form stood over a hundred zhang tall, its entire body scarlet. It wore an Undead Crown fashioned from a cluster of skulls and a Crimson Dharma Robe that imprisoned countless ferocious god-demons. Their lower bodies were trapped within the robe, leaving only their upper halves exposed as they brandished claws and bared fangs, roaring at Li Ning as they tried to lunge at him.
The wrathful form's appearance was even more vicious. Its face was purplish blue, with a mouthful of fangs protruding beyond its lips. Several additional eyes grew on its forehead, each a different color, and terrifying demon light flashed as they opened and closed.
Like a demon king that had burst out of hell, she roared and lunged up to Li Ning, spewing demon flames from her mouth and shooting demon light from her eyes.
Li Ning sat upright upon the Eight Trigrams Taiji Diagram, his