Curtain General Li raised his eyes wide and slowly lifted his head, but he was instantly stunned.
His face was filled with horror, panic, sorrow, and endless complexity, all of which were beyond words.
Curtain General Li was stunned for a full fifteen minutes before he lowered his head and said in a low voice:
“This sinful subject greets His Excellency, the Prison God of the Three Realms!”
At this moment, Curtain General Li was hunched over and pitiful, with unkempt hair and a dirty face, as filthy as a maggot, and even he himself felt disgusted.
He remembered Chu Hao vividly.
When he was framed by the Bodhisattva, it was Chu Hao who stood up and spoke frankly and impartially.
It was only a pity that the Western Sect's power was immense, and Curtain General Li had no background, so in the end, he was helplessly cast down to the mortal world, where he suffered thousands of calamities in this Flowing Sand River.
But no matter what, Curtain General Li remembered Chu Hao's kindness in his heart.
However.
Now, seeing the Prison God dressed in bright clothes and fluttering white robes, and then looking at his own dirty appearance, Curtain General Li lowered his head even further.
“What does Your Excellency, the Prison God, want from this sinful subject?”
Numbness, sorrow.
Chu Hao didn't waste any time and cut straight to the point:
“Curtain General Li, do you want to know the truth?”
“Do you want revenge?”
Curtain General Li suddenly felt a breath rise up, and the grief and indignation that had been hidden in his body for more than four hundred years seemed to roar.
However, it was only for a moment, and then Curtain General Li suddenly deflated again, with a numb and sorrowful self-deprecating expression on his face.
“This sinful subject shattered the glazed cup and molested Guanyin Bodhisattva. I was blessed by His Majesty's benevolence and the Bodhisattva's compassion, so I have survived until now. What truth is there? This sinful subject has never thought of revenge.”
Curtain General Li's head was lowered very deeply, and there was a trace of crystal tears in the corner of his eye.
He had said these insincere words for more than four hundred years, but he had never been able to convince himself. Now that he said them in front of the Prison God, he had already given up on himself.
However, Chu Hao said coldly: “Raise your head and look at me.”
Curtain General Li was stunned for a moment, took a deep breath, and then raised his head.
The moment his eyes met Chu Hao's, Curtain General Li had the urge to bury himself in the Flowing Sand River out of inferiority.
But even once would be good, even if it was just a luxury… He wanted to say what was in his heart!
Chu Hao stared at Curtain General Li and continued to ask:
“I'll ask you one last time.”
“Do you want to know the truth? Do you want revenge?”
“Look into my eyes and answer me!”
“For more than four hundred years, I have been imprisoned in this Flowing Sand River for four hundred years!”
“Just because I shattered a glazed cup, I was demoted here, ordered to sift sand in the river and find one hundred thousand pieces with my bare hands! And every seven days, flying swords pierce my chest and ribs more than a hundred times before returning. I suffer from hunger and cold. What wrong have I done!”
“I didn't shatter the glazed cup, and I never molested the Bodhisattva. Why treat me like this! What wrong have I done!”
This roar exhausted all of Curtain General Li's strength!
His anger and grievances of the past four hundred years had never disappeared, but had always been suppressed by him.
But at this moment, he burst out at Chu Hao, and even Chu Hao could see traces of demonic energy on his body.
Chu Hao calmly looked at Curtain General Li. In Curtain General Li's red hair, there was a hint of madness in his eyes.
Chu Hao knew Curtain General Li's life story. He was different from Zhu Bajie. He was born a proud and arrogant person.
Born with divine strength, he once roamed thousands of miles of the universe. A hero shows his prestige in the world, and a hero makes a model for others.
He travels to all nations and Kyushu, and crashes into the five lakes and four seas. All because of studying the Tao and wandering the world, just to seek a teacher and travel the vast land.
This kind of unrestrained life, however, was entangled with some karma, allowing Curtain General Li to be granted a golden pill by a True Man, ascend to the Heavenly Court, and enjoy the life of a god.
Unlike Zhu Bajie's indulgence, Curtain General Li was not a fool. He was always cautious in his actions, sincere in his friendships, and had never done anything to wrong others.
Curtain General Li glared at Chu Hao, his eyes red, and roared:
“Why me? I have already done well enough, why me! Why did the Bodhisattva frame me, why did the Jade Emperor punish me, why, why is it!”
“Because you are a person destined to face tribulation.”
Chu Hao said indifferently.
Curtain General Li was stunned for a moment and looked at Chu Hao with a puzzled expression.
“Your Excellency, the Prison God, what are you saying? I don't understand.”
Chu Hao's face was indifferent, and he said bluntly:
“You are a half-way monk, who became an immortal through the golden pill, and do not know the rules of the Three Realms. It doesn't matter if I explain it to you in detail.”
“Since the beginning of the world, heaven and earth have taken shape, and all living things are entangled in karma. Karma is like a thin thread, constantly entangled, and over time, the world is in great chaos.”
“After a long period of entanglement, a killing tribulation will appear, subverting the heaven and earth and restoring the Three Realms to their former state.”
“But there is also a way to cut off a part of the karma, like scooping water from a boiling pot to stop it. It is equivalent to tilting the karma of heaven and earth in the midst of a measuring tribulation, so that harmony and peace can be achieved, and karma will naturally not be too entangled.”
“In the Conferred Gods Measuring Tribulation, sealing the Intercept Sect was used as karma to pass through that heaven and earth killing tribulation.”
“Now, in the Journey to the West, under the karma of the West, it is destined to flourish, so it has been decided that the Heavenly Court will act as a matchmaker to introduce the Western Sect into the Central Plains to pass through this measuring tribulation.”
“And you are the person designated by the West to face the tribulation, that is, one of the people in the Journey to the West.”
Chu Hao didn't hide anything and directly revealed the truth.
Curtain General Li was a very intelligent person, unlike Sun Wukong, who was ignorant of the world, or Zhu Bajie, who was lustful. He quickly understood what Chu Hao said.
Curtain General Li looked at Chu Hao with a look of shock.
“But, I was granted a golden pill by a True Man. If there is really karma and merit, how could it belong to the West?”
Chu Hao smiled and said, “You don't know, Buddha was originally a Taoist.”
Curtain General Li was stunned in place for a moment, and it took him a long time to figure out everything Chu Hao said.
After a long time, the color returned to Curtain General Li's face, and he could vaguely see what he looked like when he was in the Heavenly Court.
“That is to say, it is precisely because I am a person destined to face the tribulation that the Western Heaven is so targeting me, and even Guanyin Bodhisattva falsely accused me of being frivolous to her?!”
The flesh on Curtain General Li's face twitched a little, and Chu Hao could see the anger in Curtain General Li's eyes quickly igniting.
Chu Hao nodded, “That's right. Soon, in a hundred years, the Bodhisattva will come to convert you, give you the opportunity to atone for your sins, let you take a trip to the Journey to the West, and then you can complete your merits and go to the West to become an Arhat.”
Chu Hao wasn't worried at all.
The Sky-Shielding Talisman on his body had completely shielded Chu Hao from the secrets of heaven, and even the saints could not calculate what Chu Hao was doing.
And Curtain General Li was also in place, closing his eyes and falling into deep thought.
Chu Hao could only vaguely see that the demonic energy on Curtain General Li's body was gradually growing…
