After Li Longshou’s contact with Earth Mother, he left for three days for their side.
During these three days, his paper avatars traveled east and west, above the heavens and beneath the seas, making every possible preparation.
Meanwhile, his true body and the eight Dao masters in the Lake of Tears only did two things:
Experience the power of the seven emotions through Little Sorrow;
Make a complete and detailed plan.
As for using his shallow knowledge from his previous life combined with Supreme Clarity Dao rhythms and Yin-Yang mysteries to engage in verbal trickery that gave Little Sorrow more hope and less sadness…
It was just a small demonstration, not worth mentioning.
What they were studying now was a real important matter!
Grand Magus stood with hands behind his back and spoke softly, “Let’s use the Taiji Diagram directly, it’s more reliable.”
“How can we use a Primordial Treasure here?” Zhao Gongming shook his head. “Senior Brother Xuandu, why not let me use the Sea Stabilizing Pearl? It can also stabilize heaven and earth, containing all things.”
True Lord Taiyi slightly pursed his lips: “Spitting water, first time seeing a Primordial Spirit Treasure that can spit water.”
The usually silent True Lord Yuding spoke: “Senior Brothers, why not let this poor Daoist help Earth Mother’s Sorrow Avatar cross over?”
Little Sorrow in front of them pouted, sitting there hugging herself and the pearl wrapped in black cloth in her arms, muttering:
“I already agreed to cooperate with you all, yet you still discuss how to transport me back right in front of me, I… still feel so miserable…”
Just as her voice fell, several figures slowly rose from beneath the Lake of Tears – it was Li Longshou, Guangcheng Zi, and others, each pulling a section of severed silver-white chains.
These chains gently trembled, simultaneously transforming into silver light points, returning to Little Sorrow’s body.
Li Longshou said: “The time is about right, let’s begin.”
Grand Magus smiled bitterly: “We haven’t decided how to transport Little…”
Dong!
A flash of golden light and an inverted golden dipper suddenly appeared at Little Sorrow’s position, directly covering her.
Lady Yunxiao gently waved her delicate hand, and the Primordial Golden Dipper flipped over, making Little Sorrow disappear from this place…
“It creates its universe inside, she won’t be upside down.”
Yunxiao gave a simple explanation, and the immortals finally came to their senses, each nodding in approval.
Grand Magus lightly waved his sleeve, and a Taiji Diagram appeared beneath the nine immortals’ feet. As the two qi of yin and yang circulated, the surrounding scenery changed, and they appeared at one corner beside the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc.
The area near the Reincarnation Disc had already been cleared, with ten Yama Kings guarding various directions of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc. Large numbers of netherworld officials, heavenly soldiers, and Wu tribe experts were laying multiple layers of defense outside the Reincarnation Immortal Island, ready for battle.
Li Longshou spoke: “Senior Brothers and Sisters, don’t think I’m being wordy, but I want to remind you one more thing.
Once we enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc, we’ll lose contact with the outside, only the Taiji Diagram can freely enter and exit; we should strive to succeed in one attempt, following the steps we set, with no more than a quarter-hour deviation front to back.”
“Understood.”
The eight Dao masters answered in unison. Grand Magus Xuandu raised his right hand, a Taiji Diagram’s shadow appeared in his palm, and another black and white vortex appeared on the stone wall before them.
Nine people leaped up together, transforming into nine streams of light, flying into the vortex!
A thread of cold qi tried to spread out from within the vortex, but the afterimage of the Taiji Diagram flickered slightly, and the vortex immediately collapsed into nothingness, leaving only that smooth stone wall…
Breaking into the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc, the nine immortals’ landing point was still at the edge of the mist in this small world.
Almost as soon as Li Longshou steadied his feet, Lady Yunxiao, Grand Magus, and Zhao Gongming approached him from three different directions, each moving one to several feet closer.
Li Longshou: …
Well, among the nine Dao immortals here, his cultivation was the weakest.
“Such strong hatred,” Guangcheng Zi said softly, and all the immortals nodded, each raising their spirit treasures and hurrying out of the mist.
The boundless sea of sand that Li Longshou had seen last time had now mostly transformed into a lava landscape, with scorching magma constantly surging, flowing, and solidifying, giving this small world a completely apocalyptic appearance.
In the center of the small world, an enormously huge magma giant constantly waved its hands, throwing burning boulders the size of mountains…
Above the giant’s head, the Hatred Avatar sat askew on a throne, wearing a blood-red battle skirt and a short jacket that only reached the waist, interpreting the ultimate truth that less clothing means higher defense.
—Actually, this was just a common dress style among ancient Wu tribe female war shamans.
The nine immortals rode clouds rising into the sky, hurrying together towards this place.
“Tch,” the little evil woman sneered coldly, her voice traveling from who knows how far, “I thought you went to do something, turns out you just went to call for help.”
Grand Magus made a stopping gesture, rode his cloud forward, put his hands behind his back, and smiled: “Friend, you and I haven’t determined victory or defeat in our battle, why would I need to seek help?”
“Very well,” the little evil woman licked her lips, faint black qi overflowing from her body, “I’ll kill you first, then…”
“Why don’t we play a simple game,” Grand Magus smiled gently, speaking softly, “Look, I’ll take out some benevolent thoughts, you take out an equal amount of malevolent thoughts, let them…”
Whoosh—
Bang!
A boulder the size of a mountain flew across, directly smashing Grand Magus away; the whole process was without any hesitation, making Li Longshou and the other immortals unable to help but… cover their eyes with their hands.
It was unbearable to watch.
“Trash, who wants to play games with you!”
The little evil woman’s mouth curled into a sneer, and just as she was about to control the magma giant to chase after Grand Magus, that boulder that had flown to the horizon exploded with a bang, directly shattering into powder that filled the sky.
Li Longshou suddenly felt a familiar yet strange pressure.
Why familiar?
This pressure came from the Orthodox Unity Sect’s Senior Brother, the first powerful support Li Longshou had embraced, naturally couldn’t be more familiar.
But this unfamiliarity… this was the first time Grand Magus had revealed such a degree of Dao realm pressure!
The little evil woman’s mouth corners slightly raised upward, her eyes full of satisfaction, the magma giant beneath her trembled a few times, its back protruding several arms, throwing mountain-sized boulders at Grand Magus!
“Hmph!”
Half a cold snort, Grand Magus’s wide-sleeved Daoist robe billowed, his left foot raised and immediately stomped down heavily, a touch of black and white Dao rhythm surged out like a tide;
The wind and waves in heaven and earth suddenly stopped, and those boulders flying through the starry sky simultaneously shattered!
“Damn it!”
The little evil woman cursed furiously, showing her ferocious nature, the entire world seemed to fall into dark shadows, and the enormously huge magma giant directly shattered the ground, leaping up with splashing magma!
Grand Magus’s left arm was entangled with two clusters of yin-yang qi, and from who knows how far away, he opened his five fingers towards the magma giant, slowly pushing out a palm.
From Grand Magus’s palm, all the way to the front of that magma giant, black and white Taiji Diagrams simultaneously condensed.
These parallel-arranged Taiji Diagrams grew from small to large, and the last Taiji Diagram directly blocked the entire body of that magma giant…
The little evil woman screamed sharply, the magma giant let out a deep roar, but Grand Magus unhurriedly turned his left palm slightly and pushed forward another half inch.
Each black and white Taiji Diagram was simultaneously triggered, the last Taiji Diagram rotated slightly, and that incredibly huge magma giant instantly froze, paused, and shattered, turning into countless rocks suspended eerily in the air…
The little evil woman was somewhat at a loss, and two streams of yin-yang qi appeared behind her at some unknown time, condensing into a Taiji Diagram’s shadow…
Before she could make any reaction, the yin-yang qi once again bound her, pulling her against the Taiji Diagram.
Just like how she had been easily subdued by Grand Magus before…
In heaven and earth, that gloomy and cold feeling instantly dissipated by more than half, and the starry sky appeared again.
Grand Magus walked with his hands behind his back among the giant rocks in the sky, taking only a few steps to reach the little evil woman’s front, revealing a gentle smile.
His right hand turned over, that ‘goodwill’ light ball…
Was still there…
“Come on,” Grand Magus said softly, “Give me a bit of your malevolent thoughts, and I’ll show you a very profound trick, just a little bit is enough.”
“Get lost!”
“Just cooperate, it’s really interesting.”
“Pft!”
Grand Magus: …
In the distance, Li Longshou looked up at the sky, let out a long sigh, then looked at the seven Dao masters with complicated expressions, and said seriously:
“Senior Brother gained extra time of about a cup of tea, subduing the Hatred Avatar earlier than expected.
Everyone, Yunxiao and I will go help the Mother release other avatars, please wait for the opportunity!”
All immortals agreed, each holding their breath and concentrating.
Li Longshou made a ‘please’ gesture to Lady Yunxiao, they looked at each other and smiled, together transforming into streams of light, flying thousands of miles in a direction away from the little evil woman.
Yunxiao held the Primordial Golden Dipper in her palm, slowly releasing Little Sorrow.
A stream of water sounds flowed, and the lava ground below quickly solidified, turning into a small silver lake. Little Sorrow sat quietly in the center of the lake, curling her legs and hugging her knees, burying her head and sobbing softly.
In this world, bursts of whimpering sounds immediately echoed…
Lady Yunxiao stood in the air, her slender fingers lightly swept across, and pink petals fell from the sky.
Li Longshou stood beside Little Sorrow, paper people flew out from his sleeve, and several paper people took up knives, spears, swords, and halberds, jumping and fighting around Little Sorrow, making a series of wailing cries;
Several paper people transformed into palace-dressed immortal musicians, playing and singing to a light rhythm.
After a while, Little Sorrow tilted her head watching the paper people’s fighting performance, slightly lost in thought.
Li Longshou said gently: “The black cloth fell off.”
Little Sorrow instinctively hugged the pearl in her arms tighter, but the black cloth on it was slowly dissipating.
She tightly closed her eyes, not daring to look at the situation inside, until those rays of golden light penetrated through her thin eyelids, and she finally carefully opened those eyes, looking at the situation in the pearl.
Points of flowing light flew out, in Little Sorrow’s eyes, turning into her happy smile, gentle smile, big laugh, looking back, shyness.
“It’s joy…”
Little Sorrow pressed her lips together, muttering softly, her mouth corners unconsciously showing a slight smile.
Li Longshou’s finger pointed from the side, accompanied by a “sorry,” his fingertip gently fell on Little Sorrow’s forehead, and a peculiar Dao rhythm appeared simultaneously around the two people.
The earth gently shook, the stars in the sky blazed brightly, and four pillars of light suddenly appeared in this world, the light pillars illuminating the entire world.
Thousands of miles away, Guangcheng Zi called out lightly: “They’ve appeared!”
The immortals were about to move forward immediately, but suddenly heard a coquettish laugh, and a pink smoke drifted around, making the six Dao masters simultaneously frown.
“This poor Daoist will handle this.”
True Lord Yuding stepped forward two steps, his somewhat ordinary face full of solemnity, his right hand holding up his jade cauldron, bursts of light blooming from the jade cauldron.
Guangcheng Zi, Duobao Daoren, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Zhao Gongming, and True Lord Taiyi each transformed into streams of light, heading towards the light pillars at the edge of the sky.
That Desire Avatar immediately wanted to cause trouble, but True Lord Yuding called out lightly, surrounding chanting sounds arose, and pink smoke was forced to gather, directly condensing into the graceful figure of the Desire Avatar.
True Lord Yuding raised the jade cauldron, saying: “Friend, please pass my gate first.”
“Just you?”
The Desire Avatar’s mouth corners slightly curled, unhurriedly looking around.
“It seems you came prepared today, indeed planning to kill us.
I previously still showed mercy to you all, thinking killing you wouldn’t mean much, but today…
You, what do you desire?”
The breeze rippled, and the Desire Avatar mysteriously disappeared.
True Lord Yuding slowly said: “Self-existing transformation, square and round fusion.”
That jade cauldron blazed with light, and the Desire Avatar’s figure reappeared!
She was right in front of True Lord Yuding, her reaching slender fingers only three inches away from True Lord Yuding, but her figure couldn’t advance half an inch more…
There was some bewilderment on the Desire Avatar’s face.
“You can block me?”
“Seven emotions break down, all from the heart’s seal; six desires point to, all arise from the heart.”
True Lord Yuding slowly closed his eyes, the surrounding chanting grew louder, and that jade cauldron appeared above the Desire Avatar’s head, sprinkling streams of jade light, directly trapping her in place.
“This cauldron is this poor Daoist’s Dao heart.”
Hum—
The jade cauldron trembled lightly, and the Desire Avatar clutched her head with both hands, crouching down in some pain, as she was gradually suppressed!
Thousands of miles away, witnessing this scene, Li Longshou gained some understanding.
This True Lord Yuding had actually cultivated such an extremely difficult-to-achieve ‘Path of Heart’s Desire’, no wonder Guangcheng Zi brought him here.
For the Desire Avatar, this was truly her natural counter!
With the most worrisome hidden danger dissipating, Li Longshou withdrew some of his attention, looked down at Little Sorrow who was sobbing while hugging that pearl, and smiled:
“Everything is fine now.”
“You treated me like this… sob… I’m too miserable! Even being used as a tool to release other avatars!”
Lady Yunxiao slowly descended from the sky, raising her hand to gently stroke Little Sorrow’s forehead.
Streams of clouds overflowed from Yunxiao’s fingertips, wrapping around Little Sorrow, these clouds like delicate hands, helping massage Little Sorrow, allowing her to relax her spirit.
Li Longshou smiled: “How about I perform a drama for you two?”
At this point, two paper avatars flew out from his sleeve, transforming into two Daoists, beginning to perform a segment he had prepared beforehand…
An Honghuang comedy routine.
To make Little Sorrow happy, Li Longshou had already used up his trump card meant for Mother Nuwa in advance.
Yunxiao directly employed mysterious techniques to comfort Little Sorrow’s Dao heart, using her gentleness to console Little Sorrow’s empty heart.
Looking in the distance.
The Fear Avatar was wrapped in a mass of black qi, like a contradictory duality—
One side was humble and weak, a fragile being with a heart full of terror, the other side constantly roaring and howling, wanting to spread fear to all living beings as a demon of terror.
But she could completely merge these two contradictory emotions.
The outer layer was an incredibly terrifying demon of fear wrapped in black smoke, but inside the demon was a weak and fearful coward.
Elder Zhao was naturally completely fearless.
The Sea Stabilizing Pearl directly fixed this Fear Avatar who wasn’t particularly strong in combat, and Zhao Gongming directly dispersed the black qi, approached the Fear Avatar, and took out the ‘treasure’ given by Li Longshou from behind.
“Close your eyes!”
Elder Zhao called out coldly, and the Fear Avatar instinctively closed her eyes but immediately opened them again…
“Ah!”
The immortal before her eyes, who had a beard and wore battle armor, had now turned into a green-faced, fanged demon!
This Fear Avatar burst into tears with a “wa,” almost fainting from fright…
Elder Zhao took off the mask, chuckled, and muttered: “Little Brother was right, this one is the easiest to deal with.”
Then he began preparing other masks.
Meanwhile, True Lord Taiyi and Guangcheng Zi joined forces to suppress the Anger Avatar in another corner.
The Heaven Overturning Seal transformed into a mountain, pressing down on that golden-haired girl who looked no more than fourteen or fifteen, only letting her head show.
Guangcheng Zi said: “Go ahead, Junior Brother Taiyi.”
True Lord Taiyi asked somewhat uncertainly: “Senior Brother, are you sure you can suppress her later?”
“Of course,” Guangcheng Zi said with a smile, showing the bearing of a profound expert.
True Lord Taiyi nodded, put his hands in his red robe’s sleeves, and walked two steps forward.
That golden-haired girl, who looked similar to Little Evil and Little Sorrow, immediately fixed her angry eyes on True Lord Taiyi.
But True Lord Taiyi only walked two steps before retreating…
Guangcheng Zi asked puzzled: “Why did Junior Brother retreat?”
“This avatar is too weak,” True Lord Taiyi shook his head, “why don’t we let her go deal with other avatars, there’s no point in bullying such a little one.”
Guangcheng Zi: …
“Who are you calling little?”
The Anger Avatar questioned angrily, her body blazing with golden light, making the Heaven Overturning Seal pressing on her body constantly tremble.
True Lord Taiyi sneered and said leisurely: “Aren’t you just a little one like this?
In the human mortal world, you’re just a yellow-haired girl, as an avatar of the Great Virtue Earth Mother, aren’t you ashamed of yourself?
Look at Desire…”
Crack crack crack!
The golden-haired girl’s body suddenly made a series of popping sounds, golden light exploded around her body, jade arms appeared behind her back, and the Heaven Overturning Seal was slowly being pushed up!
“Who are you calling… a… little… one!”
True Lord Taiyi slipped back, standing behind his Senior Brother, giving an embarrassed smile: “Don’t be self-conscious, believe in yourself, you’ll grow up eventually, there are still transformation techniques and such.”
“Ah—”
The Anger Avatar let out a sharp scream, and the Heaven Overturning Seal was suddenly flipped over!
Guangcheng Zi raised his sword and moved forward, engaging in a fierce battle with the berserk Anger Avatar!
And Li Longshou, witnessing this scene, couldn’t help but start to worry…
With True Lord Taiyi’s mouth, whenever the Orthodox and Severance sects meet, they could turn nothing into a bloodbath!
Li Longshou took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve, the red line on the slip was almost at the bottom.
It was Chen Hour already.
At this time, the only difficulty was with the Golden Spirit Holy Mother.
…
In a distant corner of this small world, Golden Spirit Holy Mother knelt on a dune, her delicate hand supporting her forehead.
Golden Spirit Holy Mother was beautiful in a cold way and born delicate, and being a direct disciple of Master Tongtian, she had many powerful spirit treasures by her side. Usually, wherever she went she kept a cold face, and there were rumors in the Three Realms about her dislike of smiling…
Originally, when Golden Spirit Holy Mother was invited to the Netherworld to help deal with the crisis of Earth Mother’s Seven Emotions Avatars, she had prepared for a great battle.
But these three days, she listened to that newly risen Orthodox Unity disciple, the Heavenly Court’s Water God, constantly explaining various details of the plan, and even arranged for her to practice some ‘special techniques’.
Golden Spirit Holy Mother gradually discovered…
This Water God was truly steady, actually able to consider things to such a degree, not willing to overlook any detail!
And herself this time, it seemed she had come to the wrong place.
There was simply no fight to be had here.
At this moment, True Lord Taiyi was being chased and hunted by Earth Mother’s Anger Avatar, other Dao masters had all engaged with the Seven Emotions Avatars, and the entire plan was steadily progressing.
But what Golden Spirit Holy Mother needed to face now were two delicately beautiful young girls…
Their expectant gazes, those understanding eyes…
This!
These two Seven Emotions Avatars she was responsible for had absolutely no intention of fighting with her.
When she arrived here, the two young girls were already obediently gathered together, and their first words were:
“Are you the big sister who’s come to help us grow up quickly?”
It almost melted the Golden Spirit Holy Mother’s Dao heart.
What to do?
What else could be done, these were the Joy Avatar and Love Avatar, they were the ‘good’ among the Seven Emotions;
It was precisely because these two were too weak, and Sorrow and Hatred too strong, that the power of the Seven Emotions became unbalanced, leading to the birth of the Seven Emotions Avatars.
And at this time, Sorrow and Joy, Hatred and Love absolutely couldn’t meet, otherwise, these two little ones would be directly assimilated, and Earth Mother would truly merge into the abyss of Seven Emotions, with no way to save her back.
A hole appeared in the ground, and Duobao Daoren jumped out from it, urging:
“Junior Sister Jinling, how is it going? The time is almost up.”
‘Forget it, never mind!’
Golden Spirit Holy Mother lightly bit her lip, suddenly… made claws with both hands, made a grimace on her pretty face, and fiercely went “wowowo” at the two young girls.
The two young girls first hugged each other tightly, and then burst into laughter together, laughing in a heap.
Golden Spirit Holy Mother kept making faces, the two young girls laughed so hard they were bending over, and started slowly growing taller…
To the side, Duobao Daoren frowned watching this scene, watching Golden Spirit Holy Mother performing earnestly, feeling deeply moved in his heart.
He never knew that his junior sister had such a side!
He had thought Junior Sister Jinling only had her Dao heart for company, with a personality as hard as rock and fierce!
Unexpectedly…
Sigh, since his junior sister had gone to such lengths, how could he as senior brother stand idly by?
“Watch this!”
With a wave of his hand, countless treasure lights flashed, piles of spirit treasures flickered with light around them, and the two young girls let out exclamations of “wa wa”.
Duobao Daoren resisted the urge to take off his Daoist robe, leaped up, and began backstroking and butterflying among the pile of treasures, his somewhat chubby body constantly swaying.
The two young girls again collapsed in laughter, this time ‘Joy’ grew faster…
But Golden Spirit Holy Mother still couldn’t help but secretly frown…
It seemed there wasn’t enough time.
At this point these two Seven Emotions Avatars were increasing too slowly, there was less than half an hour until the ‘Seven Emotions Resonance’ moment set by Li Longshou!
Dong dong clang—
Gong and drum sounds?
‘Great Virtue Earth Mother guards reincarnation, that is our destination after death, the beginning of our next life!’
‘Long live Mother Earth!’
‘May Earth Mother live as long as heaven and earth!’
Suddenly, Golden Spirit Holy Mother and Duobao Daoren heard bursts of noisy and unfinished shouting.
This was…
Both people looked up at the same time and saw a river of stars appear in the sky, with points of starlight drifting down from the river of stars.
These starlight points went straight towards the two young girls, each point of starlight containing a similar scene:
Bustling mortal cities, men and women, old and young cheering along the streets, clay statues of various sizes being held high;
In front of the clay statues, young maidens walk barefoot, scattering flower petals;
Behind the clay statues, suona horns, big drums, bronze gongs, and clappers, beating out light and cheerful rhythms with all their might.
The first quarter of Chen Hour.
In South Jambudvipa, wherever there were Sea God Religion temples, Earth Mother statues were being carried onto the streets…
Two days ago, the entire Sea God Religion had fully mobilized, propagating the deeds of Great Virtue Earth Mother, gathering believers to nearby cities to celebrate simultaneously at this time today.
Blessing after blessing, wish after wish…
Longevity, joy, peace, immortality with heaven and earth, eternal tranquility with the world…
The two young girls stood in the falling starlight, staring in a daze, each somewhat lost in thought.
Points of light merged into their bodies, the two slowly transformed, and as starlight continued to fall, they gradually grew up, becoming young women, each wiping tears, smiling happily there.
Golden Spirit Holy Mother breathed a sigh of relief, kneeling on the dune, smiling as she took in this scene.
Duobao Daoren let out several hearty laughs, collecting the countless spirit treasures, casting an admiring glance at Li Longshou…
Soon, these two Seven Emotions Avatars temporarily gained power equal to the other avatars.
Li Longshou looked at the bamboo strip in his palm, the red line had touched the bottom!
The time had come.
Li Longshou looked down at Little Sorrow before him, and took a gentle breath, with the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda above his head, his figure leaped up and rushed toward the sky, a grass ring appearing in his palm.
Finding the place of Seven Emotions balance, finding the place in this small world where spiritual power was most gentle, Li Longshou slowly offered up the grass ring.
Seven-colored light constantly flickered on the grass ring, streams of immortal light gathered beneath the grass ring.
In front of Little Evil, where the Taiji Diagram was shining, Grand Magus was earnestly saying…
“Look at this ball covered in black cloth, the good and evil thoughts inside have now returned to chaos, can you guess what will happen next?
The chaos of emotions… hm?”
Grand Magus Xuandu’s words paused as he looked at Little Evil now, the latter’s eyes full of bewilderment, a light black beam shot out from her chest.
At the same moment…
The Desire Avatar suppressed by True Lord Yuding, the Love Avatar and Joy Avatar before Golden Spirit Holy Mother;
The Fear Avatar was scared to tears by Zhao Gongming, the Anger Avatar who had been fiercely chasing True Lord Taiyi before being trapped in the formation, the Sorrow Avatar beside Lady Yunxiao…
Beams of light shot out from each of their chests, their eyes somewhat bewildered, all simultaneously stopping their actions.
High in the sky, seven-colored light beams flew beneath the grass ring, merging into those streams of immortal light, a phantom figure slowly condensed, wearing a plain light white dress, floating with closed eyes…
Earth Mother!
Li Longshou made a deep Daoist salute, calling out loudly:
“Earth Mother’s virtue, witnessed by heaven and earth! Please, Mother Earth return to your position!”
His voice carried far out, but Earth Mother’s phantom showed no reaction, while the immortal light blooming from that grass ring began to grow dim.
As if in a dream, Mother Earth slightly furrowed her brow, her face showing a trace of pain.
Li Longshou anxiously looked up…
Had it not arrived?
Was the timing wrong?
Or could those thoughts not reach this place?
He took a deep breath, again made a deep Daoist salute, and called out loudly:
“Great Virtue Earth Mother, protects reincarnation, all beings grateful, eternal and unending!”
As soon as his voice fell, eight voices came from various places, as Grand Magus Xuandu and the other experts simultaneously made Daoist salutes to Earth Mother, chanting these sixteen characters.
Suddenly!
More magnificent, more chaotic, and even louder shouts constantly echoed in this world!
The river of stars projected by the Six Paths of Reincarnation burst forth with brilliant light, golden bubbles rose against the current from within the river of stars, floating down throughout heaven and earth.
Chen Hour, third quarter.
Along the shores of the South Sea and East Sea, wherever the Sea God Religion reached, countless figures knelt before Earth Mother statues, all chanting these sixteen characters.
By the Heavenly River in Heaven, Ao Yi and Bian Zhuang knelt on one knee, and clasped their hands, with a hundred thousand soldiers kneeling on one knee behind them!
Before Tongming Hall, hundreds of heavenly officials made Daoist salutes together, following behind East Wood Duke;
At the East, South, West, North, and Central Heaven Gates, at Jade Pool, in various places of the Lower Three Heavens where celestial people lived…
In the Four Seas, inside and outside dragon palaces, in various sea race cities…
Figures either knelt on one knee or bowed making Daoist salutes, all chanting these sixteen characters!
At Ascending Immortal Gate, disciples who had gathered two hours early, like most Three Schools’ immortal sects at this time, all offered incense and made Daoist salutes before the tablet inscribed with Great Virtue Earth Mother, chanting and shouting…
Great Virtue Earth Mother, protect our reincarnation;
All beings are grateful, eternal, and unending.
In the Northern Continent, Wu tribe members knelt on the ground, sobbing softly…
In the Netherworld, Yama Kings and judges, netherworld officials, and ghost soldiers, those souls about to step onto the Reincarnation Disc, all knelt, constantly calling out, crying out.
Even in the Three Thousand Worlds, similar scenes occurred simultaneously, streams of golden light broke into the Netherworld, joining with the golden light shining from the Five Continents, rushing into the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc!
On Spirit Mountain, several old Daoists showed angry expressions, looking at the young Daoist practitioner sitting beside Dicheng.
“Ksitigarbha, was it your order that made our Western Religion’s incense temples worship Earth Mother today?”
“Absurd! This is their Dao School’s opportunity, isn’t your action just helping them gain merit!”
Ksitigarbha smiled somewhat helplessly, opened his eyes, and said softly: “This was Master’s decree.”
Several old Daoists immediately shut their mouths.
Ksitigarbha sighed, then said: “The Six Paths of Reincarnation has nothing to do with the struggle between the Dao School and the West, this action is only to ensure that our West will still have the fortune to compete with their Dao School in the future.
Senior Brothers, Ksitigarbha will cultivate for now.”
After speaking, this young Daoist closed his eyes, his face showing some serenity.
Several old Daoists looked at each other, each frowning as they left.
The divine beast Dicheng swept its tail, and secretly rolled its eyes, lying there listening to all beings’ prayers, content.
…
Inside the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc;
Countless golden lights pervaded, the original sand sea, and lava had transformed into rolling hills, mountains, and plains covered with light green grass, white flowers slowly blooming everywhere.
In the sky, Mother Earth’s figure was now extremely solid;
She wore that grass ring on her head, her waterfall-like black hair falling down, ten fingers interlocked before her chest, kneeling in the sky muttering softly.
She was giving blessings to all beings, the aura flowing from around her was so gentle and peaceful.
In one corner of this world, the Golden Spirit Holy Mother suddenly heard a call:
“Big Sister!”
Golden Spirit Holy Mother immediately turned around the golden decorations on her long dress jingling.
Those two Seven Emotions Avatars, now looking just like Mother Earth, Seven Emotions’ Love, and Seven Emotions’ Joy, were making Daoist salutes to the Golden Spirit Holy Mother together, they smiled: “Thank you.”
Golden Spirit Holy Mother slightly shook her head, saying: “Take care.”
“Mm,” they answered softly, their figures slowly rising into the sky, flying towards Mother Earth.
In the sky, at Grand Magus’s place.
“Just you wait!” Little Evil gnashed her teeth, “When I come out again, I’ll shave your head bald and carve a green turtle on it!”
Grand Magus laughed freely, shook his head, quietly crushed that pearl in his hand, and retrieved the Taiji Diagram.
A beam of golden light shone over, wrapping up the defiant Little Evil, slowly pulling her toward Mother Earth in the sky…
In another corner.
“For this, many apologies.”
Zhao Gongming made a Daoist salute to the Fear Avatar before him, took off his mask, and smiled apologetically twice.
The Fear Avatar, already bound by golden light, obviously breathed a sigh of relief now, and made a fierce grimace at Zhao Gongming, seemingly a payback for being scared more than ten times earlier.
In another corner, the Anger Avatar also bound by golden light cursed at True Lord Taiyi below:
“You just wait! Bastard!
I’ll beat you every time I see you in the future!”
True Lord Taiyi, with a bruised and swollen face, smiled wickedly, lowered his head, and spat out a mouthful of blood, his energy weak and depleted.
In the direction where the nine immortals had entered this small world, True Lord Yuding retrieved his jade cauldron, stood up, and made a Daoist salute to the Desire Avatar, saying softly: “Apologies for the offense.”
“Pah!”
When the Desire Avatar was carried away by golden light, she cursed and grumbled, saying things like ‘monster’, and ‘all monsters’.
And then, several immortals’ divine consciousness went to where the last avatar was.
Streams of golden light fell, like chains, gently helping up the sad girl sitting on the ground.
“Sigh…”
Little Sorrow sighed softly, raised her hand to wipe the tears that had never stopped at the corner of her eyes, looked at Li Longshou and Lady Yunxiao standing before her, and said softly:
“See, I couldn’t go that far, false is still false, mistakes will be corrected, and I’m the one being corrected.”
Li Longshou showed a warm smile and slowly shook his head.
Little Sorrow muttered as her body was slowly pulled up.
“Although I know you weren’t doing it for me, but these past days… thank you all.
I talked too much, and it was all useless nonsense…
Why am I so miserable, knew from the beginning this was my fate, and because of you all I had some thoughts I shouldn’t have had, but in the end it has to be like this, knowing it would be like this…
I knew…”
Yunxiao gently bit her lip and turned away.
Li Longshou calmly looked at Little Sorrow, slowly exhaled, smiled, and said:
“By the way, do you have a name?”
“I… I am just, just a transformation of Earth Mother’s Seven Emotions, one of her thoughts.”
“From now on, I’ll keep calling you Little Sorrow.”
Li Longshou suddenly called out loudly: “This poor Daoist’s title is Changgen, Orthodox Unity disciple, Heavenly Court’s Water God, to know you as a friend, to assist Great Virtue Earth Mother together today, is my fortune for three lifetimes, an unspeakable honor!”
“I, I…”
Already pulled to mid-air, Little Sorrow kept wiping tears with the back of her hand, her voice gradually failing, but constantly calling out: “I am Earth Mother, I am the sorrow emotion given to Earth Mother by all beings, I am called Earth Mother’s Little Sorrow…
To know you as a friend… I!”
Golden light blazed, and her figure disappeared in the sky along with the other six avatars.
Li Longshou slowly exhaled and looked down at the pearl that had fallen before him, his ears seemed to echo that voice…
‘It is joy.’
“Maybe became sad-silly.”
Li Longshou picked up the pearl, “I tampered with this, that bit of your sorrow was melted away by me before being put into this pearl, it would always be joy.”
A delicate hand reached over from the side, gently holding his arm.
Li Longshou said softly: “Don’t worry, my Dao heart is very firm.”
Yunxiao responded softly but didn’t let go of Li Longshou’s arm.
In the sky, the golden light slowly dissipated.
Seven differently colored pearls were revolving around Mother Earth, streams of Seven Emotions power returning to Mother Earth herself, instantly offsetting and resolving each other.
Suddenly, Earth Mother opened her eyes, light flashing in them, the seven pearls around her simultaneously shattered, and seven avatars who could no longer resist showed phantom images again.
Grand Magus frowned and said: “Senior Earth Mother, please don’t…”
“It’s alright.”
Light flickered faintly in Earth Mother’s eyes as she looked at these seven avatars who had already lost most of their Seven Emotions power before her, her mouth corners showing a gentle smile.
She took off the grass ring from her head, saying softly:
“All beings’ suffering, I shall bear;
All beings’ grievances, I shall endure;
All beings’ hatred, I shall tolerate.
My sorrow, evil, desire, joy, fear, love, anger, why can’t I embrace them?”
Grand Magus Xuandu’s brows gradually relaxed, he smiled and said:
“Senior can make your own decision, but next time if you can’t suppress them again, please let us know early.”
“Mm, thank you.”
Earth Mother answered gently, her eyes full of tenderness, her slender finger gently pushing the grass ring forward.
The Seven Emotions Avatars transformed into streams of light, merging into the grass ring, the grass ring flew back into Earth Mother’s embrace, held against her chest.
“From now on, be good, okay?”