"Fellow Daoist, mind your words."
The crystal skull warned him, saying that although there were no true emperors in the world, there were beings suspected of having become emperors. Speaking recklessly of emperors might invite tremendous karma.
"Strange. You all believe emperors don't exist, yet you also consider them taboo. Isn't that a contradiction?" Di Yi did not quite understand how their minds worked.
"With all things in this world, once we reach this level, it is better to believe they exist than to believe they do not. It is a kind of hope, and also a kind of helplessness," the crystal skull said.
"Why?" Di Yi asked.
"There is no particular reason. Don't you want to become stronger, fellow Daoist?" Rather than explain directly, the crystal skull asked him this.
"Stronger..." Di Yi understood. For them, this was indeed a kind of encouragement. A hazy road ahead was better than no road at all.
"So, whether true emperors exist in this world or not, do not speak of them recklessly. It is for your own good. If you can set foot on that road in the future, you will not invite trouble because of what you said today," the crystal skull said, warning Di Yi that inexplicable karma often existed in this world, whether Heavenly Tribulation or man-made calamity. In short, one had to hold emperors in reverence.
"Oh, in that case, by failing to bow before an emperor, haven't you incurred karma and forfeited your true lives?" After listening to the crystal skull, Di Yi asked this on a sudden whim.
"Fellow Daoist, you've mocked us time and again. Do you really think we have no temper?!" The hand bone clearly had a worse temper than the skull and the eyeball. It floated up and instantly enlarged, looking