Watching the brothers Golden-Winged Great Peng and Kong Xuan look utterly grateful despite being punished, the Sages present felt the corners of their mouths twitch.
Just what had you two brothers, Jieyin and Zhunti, done
to make people hate you so much?
They would rather be sentenced to a thousand years in the Ninefold Purgatory than enter your Western Buddhist Sect and be converted...
Sensing the strange looks from the Three Pure Ones and the others, Jieyin and Zhunti also felt the corners of their mouths twitch.
They had no idea either!
Could a life spent beside ancient Buddhas and oil lamps really be worse than being struck by heavenly lightning every day????
They could only watch as these two rising talents of the Demon Race, all but guaranteed to enter the Quasi-Saint Realm someday, slipped through their fingers.
Jieyin and Zhunti's hearts ached.
Especially since Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, whom they had originally held in such high regard, had now entered the Netherworld Office and made that Great Vow about not becoming a Buddha until hell was empty.
He had forcibly trapped himself in the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm forever.
That was effectively the loss of three Quasi-Saint disciples.
At that thought, Jieyin and Zhunti's hearts ached even more!
Since the punishment had been handed down, and Nüwa herself had spoken, Bai Ze naturally had no objections. He immediately ordered his men to pull Golden-Winged Great Peng and Kong Xuan up from where they still knelt and take them out of the Hall of Ascending Heaven.
As for where they were going, it was naturally the Ninefold Purgatory!
Seeing that Golden-Winged Great Peng and Kong Xuan were about to slip from their grasp completely, Jieyin and Zhunti opened their mouths, ready to make another attempt. But then they looked at