"If he hadn't come, I would almost have forgotten I still had an enemy like him!"
He Pingsheng narrowed his eyes as he looked in the direction Ming Yue had left. "But now that he's come, I don't know where to begin dealing with him!"
"Brilliant!"
"Perhaps he had a sudden enlightenment!" Jinku added, "What he said just now probably wasn't a lie. He must have grasped certain truths. Didn't he say that, in his youth, he hadn't understood the profound meaning of delivering all living beings from suffering well enough, and that was why he had nearly cut off Zhou Qingmei's opportunity?"
"One thought brought him an understanding of Buddhist teachings, and that let him break through his cultivation bottleneck?"
He Pingsheng said nothing.
Jinku continued, "Of course, it's also possible that giving you the pearl untied some knot in his heart, allowing him to break through!"
"But either way, it wasn't fake!"
Jinku was right. If Ming Yue had been scheming against He Pingsheng this time, he couldn't possibly have broken through his bottleneck outright.
There was just one thing He Pingsheng couldn't understand.
I'm damn well trying to save someone, to go into the Netherworld and fish out Zhou Qingmei's soul. How did you know that, Ming Yue?
And not only did you know I was going to retrieve Zhou Qingmei, you even knew I'd run into trouble?
You even knew I had an old Earth Immortal ghost with me?
He couldn't figure it out.
"Perhaps... the Buddhist Path has some secret arts!" He Pingsheng could only shake his head and console himself. "Let's go, you old thing. Time to head down and get to work!"
He Pingsheng put away the Buddha Flame Pearl, then turned into a streak of light and plunged straight into the Nine