Just as Jade Pool began healing Haotian, elsewhere, inside the Heavenly Emperor Palace...
"The Vermilion Bird Faction sent an envoy to invite Haotian over to discuss something?" Hearing Hou Yi's report, Black Bear Ancestor raised an eyebrow. That damned bird Lingguang really refused to give up. Things had already reached this point, yet he still dreamed of turning back the raging tide.
"Brother Xiong Er, should we stop them from meeting?" Hou Yi asked Black Bear Ancestor.
"Hmm... I don't think we need to stop them. At worst, we can deal with Lingguang along with him. But you should go to the Netherworld and ask my True Form about this, Great Shaman. Let it decide, so it won't accuse me of acting on my own afterward. I'll just handle Haotian," Black Bear Ancestor said after some thought.
Hou Yi wholeheartedly agreed. Decisions like this were better left to Brother Gungun. Brother Xiong Er, you're even more vicious than a Great Shaman like me. At the drop of a hat, you talk about dealing with someone or wiping someone out. You could easily ruin things that way. He immediately said, "All right, I'll go now."
With that, Hou Yi, the errand runner, set off again, heading for the Netherworld.
In the Netherworld, on the River of Forgetfulness.
"Snore... snore... snore..." A fat black-and-white figure lay on the river's surface, his enormous belly sticking up as he slept soundly. A bubble beneath his nose swelled and shrank, making anyone who saw it want to poke it with a finger and see whether that would wake him.
That was right. This fatty living such a ridiculously comfortable life was none other than our great Heavenly Emperor-His Majesty Gungun.
Back in the Pure Land World, he had still been pondering how to resist