Yet Namo Great Wisdom Manjushri Bodhisattva shook his head and said, "Since Senior Brother has attained the Bodhisattva Fruit of Namo Great Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, you are a Bodhisattva of our Thunder Sound Temple. Perhaps you are unwilling to come to Thunder Sound Temple and reshape your Buddha body, but you are still this little monk's senior brother!"
"Alas, forget it, forget it..." Xiao Hua waved his hand and said helplessly, "Do as you please! In any case, this Xiao will not go to Thunder Sound Temple to stand on a platform! Anything else?"
"Stand on a platform?" Namo Great Wisdom Manjushri Bodhisattva froze, then smiled. "Senior Brother misunderstands. It means standing respectfully before Great Sun Tathagata World Honored One to listen to his teachings. That is a blessing beyond the envy of countless Buddhist disciples—others could not go even if they wanted to!"
Xiao Hua did not know whether to laugh or cry. He already understood why he had suddenly attained Guanyin Bodhisattva's Bodhisattva Fruit! Back when he had collected the waters of the Liao River in Changsheng Town, he had nearly attained fruition. The merit from that occasion had not merely come from the faith of Changsheng Town's common people; it had likely also come from the merit of scattering fine seeds far and wide across Xiaoyu Continent. Later, Buddha Bodhi had descended into the world. Buddha Bodhi was Xiao Hua's Buddhist sect avatar, so all that merit had fallen upon Buddha Bodhi. Then, when Xiao Hua had mistakenly entered the Ruins and obtained Namo Maitreya Buddha's sarira and merit, he had even sacrificed himself for the beings of the Ruins. That merit had long surpassed the Bodhisattva Fruit. Once Xiao Hua and Buddha Bodhi teleported back to Great Snow Mountain and Jingliu'er cast aside his long-cherished wish,