As Qi Shiyun ate her son, she asked his father, "A-Xin, are you planning to take Maitreya down the mountain? What if this unfilial son murders his father and mothers?"
She still felt a little guilty. After all, she hardly behaved like a mother herself, so she could hardly expect her son to be filial.
Lin Ruoshui was worried too. "Maitreya isn't easy to deal with. On Kuang Mountain, we can still restrain him. If we go down the mountain without the Kuang Furnace, Maitreya really might do something outrageously treacherous."
"It's fine."
Lianshan Xin was much calmer than the child's two mothers.
He was the head of the household, after all.
"Maitreya wouldn't dare be disobedient or unfilial."
Lianshan Xin's words were plainly childish, yet at that moment, he radiated domineering confidence. His utterly unwarranted self-assurance baffled Qi Shiyun and Lin Ruoshui.
The child's two mothers exchanged a glance and found the same bewilderment in each other's eyes.
Lin Ruoshui reminded him, "Maitreya only withdrew just now because we're on Kuang Mountain. Once we leave and lose our home-ground advantage-that's Maitreya we're talking about."
"Wrong. That's merely a wisp of spiritual essence leaking out of Maitreya, who's been sealed for a thousand years."
Lianshan Xin corrected Lin Ruoshui's understanding. "Shui Shui, Maitreya was certainly powerful at his peak. But the Maitreya we can eat and see isn't actually that powerful anymore. Immortals derive their strength from the unknown and the mysterious. Once they enter the fray, they're nothing so extraordinary. Especially for me, the current Maitreya is just right. He can broaden our horizons and improve our strength, yet he can hardly pose too great a threat to us."
"Why do you say that?"
"Someone truly powerful wouldn't let us humiliate him, much less eat him. If he had