"Any wish at all?"
Xu Taiping asked Fairy Lingyue for confirmation.
"At least within this Thousand Buddha Kingdom, Ancient Buddha Kasyapa's will stands above all else."
Fairy Lingyue nodded.
"If I can hold off those coming to seize the Bodhi Fruit for Second Senior Brother and bear that malice in his place, will I be able to make a wish to the Ancient Buddha?"
Xu Taiping asked.
"You must think this through. Once you invoke this precept, every cultivator who has coveted the Bodhi Fruit will vent their malice on you."
"You'll face not only hundreds of Mystic Understanding Realm cultivators, but even Spirit Refining Realm cultivators like Shang Jiu."
"Against such numbers, even if you can use All Beings Are Equal, you'll struggle to hold out."
"Most importantly, once this precept is activated, even I won't be able to intervene."
Fairy Lingyue reminded Xu Taiping with great seriousness.
"Sister Lingyue, you said that if someone with a mortal bone wants to achieve anything on the path of cultivation, he must fight-against men, against demons, against devils, against heaven."
"This time, I want to wrest Second Senior Brother's life back from their hands."
Xu Taiping spoke with unwavering resolve.
As he understood it, "fighting" meant not only fighting for himself, but also fighting for those beside him.
Hearing this, Fairy Lingyue fell silent for a long time.
To someone like her, who had lived for countless years, Xu Taiping's words were undoubtedly naive and impulsive.
Yet this was also something people like her had lost.
If I had been a little more impulsive back then, if I had fought a little harder, could I have saved Master, Senior Brother, and the others?
An inexplicable wave of sorrow passed through Fairy Lingyue's heart.
But a moment later, her gaze grew resolute