The corner of the Joyful Bodhisattva's eye twitched as he stared at the Flame Giant Ape before him, but he soon restored his smile.
"Benefactor, this humble monk..."
Before he could finish, an enormous palm came sweeping toward his face.
Unable to budge his captured hand, the Joyful Bodhisattva could only raise his other hand to block.
What followed, however, was the crisp sound of his own hand being slapped into his face.
Smack!
The Joyful Bodhisattva's head rang, but compared to the pain in his face, Chen Miao's next words enraged him even more.
"Who told you to smile?"
The Joyful Bodhisattva had never suffered such humiliation at the hands of a living person!
The smile he had maintained was on the verge of breaking. Even his eyebrows involuntarily began shifting toward the Wrathful Bodhisattva's expression.
But after years of habit, his brow ridge struggled to change.
Caught between the two expressions, his eyebrows looked as though they were twitching.
That only stoked the Joyful Bodhisattva's anger further!
Meanwhile, not far away, the face of the Three-Faced Black Buddha Statue that belonged to the Joyful Bodhisattva began turning red.
The Sorrowful Bodhisattva, who had remained motionless all this time, walked over to the Three-Faced Black Buddha Statue and sat cross-legged before it, pressing his hand against its Joyful Bodhisattva face.
At the same time, after taking another backhanded slap, the Joyful Bodhisattva's expression began to turn strange.
Neither quite smiling nor quite sorrowful!
As this change took place, his body began swelling once more.
Two point six meters, two point eight, three, three point two!
In the space of a single breath, the Joyful Bodhisattva shot up from two and a half meters to three point two, towering a full head above the Flame Giant Ape before him!
Even