"I wondered for decades. With a full forty-three thousand years of accumulated earth-vein energy, how could it still fail to rise? So that was why. So that was why."
He Yuanyue murmured to herself.
Filled with disappointment and sorrow, she murmured, "The human heart... could actually be so terrifying!"
"They would rather imprison the phoenix and kill it, merely to drink a mouthful of inconsequential phoenix blood, than let it soar into the heavens and fly through the nine skies!"
He Yuanyue gave a wretched smile and said softly, "The phoenix rises and cries, and the nine heavens celebrate together; the true dragon answers, and dragon and phoenix herald good fortune; heaven and earth, mountains and rivers; tranquil seas and clear waters... This should have been the eternal tide that followed heaven and answered the people, welcomed by the Heavenly Dao and in harmony with the human way! Yet now, the phoenix cries in sorrow and cannot rise, while the dragon remains hidden and struggles to emerge. And all of this was caused by human selfish desire!"
Her eyes filled with boundless hatred, He Yuanyue stared ahead, thinking of two places she could not see at all, and spoke as though her heart were being pierced and she were weeping blood. "With hearts like these, they deserve to be beasts for all eternity, their nine degrees of kin exterminated!"
Beasts for all eternity, their nine degrees of kin exterminated!
Mu Yanyan shuddered inwardly.
For He Yuanyue, revered as a living Buddha in countless households, to utter such a grave curse, this matter had evidently reached a truly serious point!
"Former Principal, what exactly is going on? Could I trouble you to explain a little?"
Mu Yanyan asked solemnly.
"Teacher Mu, please wait a little. Once I finish observing tonight's signs,