The first day of the Sparrow-Passing Calendar.
By now, corpses littered the ground before the Living Person Coffin.
Apart from Lianshan Xin and his companions, everyone still standing was Jiang Ping'an.
Every last one was Jiang Ping'an...
Only those who understood the craft knew just how terrifying this was.
As it happened, all three members of Lianshan Xin's family understood it, as did Maitreya. The least knowledgeable was actually Heavenly Sword, who had just displayed his tremendous might. Maitreya stared at the "Gu King" before him, thoroughly unsettled. "How is his Divine Feet Ability so powerful?"
Lianshan Xin: "? Listen to yourself. Is that something a human would say?"
You were the founder of the Divine Feet Ability, after all.
Why were you making such a fuss over a junior using it?
Where was your dignity as Maitreya Bodhisattva?
Faced with Lianshan Xin's doubts, Maitreya answered with perfect conviction, "I'm a Primordial Divine Being. I was never human to begin with."
Lianshan Xin: "..."
"Why are all the youngsters of this generation such monsters?" Maitreya muttered. "This Jiang Ping'an has practically made the Divine Feet Ability blossom into a thousand tricks. I never even knew it could be used like this."
Lianshan Xin very much wanted to ask what this damned child was good for now besides providing commentary, but he swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.
For the sake of family harmony.
Meanwhile, Heavenly Sword was deeply shocked by the changes in both the "Gu King" and Lianshan Xin.
"Gu King, you're one of the Heavenly Queen's people?" Zhang A-Niu's voice was full of bewilderment.
If this really was the Heavenly Queen's arrangement, why hadn't she mentioned it in her letter to him?
What if he had accidentally killed the Gu King?
The "Gu King" coughed