Wandering Gods of Day and Night

"That’s right, Zhao Wuya is the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird under the Ancient Buddha."

Boba didn’t hold back and continued the conversation that Ning Jin Longba started.

When Ning Jin Longba heard this, he waved his hand and said to Boba, "Then it’s even more impossible. The Six Great Families could never use the ’Twenty-one Zen’ as a sacrifice, let alone the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird; they would be even more unwilling."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Xuan felt puzzled—logically, the Twenty-one Zen are manifestations of the Ancient Buddha.

From a certain perspective, one could directly regard the ’Twenty-one Zen’ as part of the Ancient Buddha.

And the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird, at best, is just a pet bird of the Ancient Buddha, it’s still just a bird, how could it be more precious than a manifestation of the Ancient Buddha?

Though curious at the moment, Zhou Xuan refrained from asking, fearing he might let something slip, so he continued to listen silently.

Seeing Ning Jin Longba becoming slightly anxious again, Boba chuckled softly and asked, "Longba, let me ask you, what harm is there in using the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird as a sacrifice?"

"Golden Buddha, do we really need Longba to explain what the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird represents?"

"Go ahead, tell us." Boba pressed, with a tone of feigned ignorance.

Zhou Xuan also noticed this intonation,

He silently noted that this Boba was a master of psychological games—knowing many things but forcing others to speak,

This approach subtly wears down the other’s resistance and enhances his own authority.

Longba sighed, stood up, and said, "Golden Buddha, the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird is a symbol of the Great Snow Mountain, a pet of the Ancient Buddha, and more importantly, it is truly the Buddha Mother of the Ancient Buddha, not the Five-Colored Divine Bull."

Zhou Xuan had already seen depictions of the "Buddha Mother" during his time at the Heavenly Spirit Tower,

It was the Five-Colored Divine Bull that brought the Ancient Buddha to Jing Country, thus it was called the "Buddha Mother."

In the entire Snow Plain Prefecture, cattle are called "Earth Mother."

But now, the role of the Buddha Mother had changed, what could the reason be?

Boba’s next words did not elaborate on why the "Heavenly Peng Bird is the true Buddha Mother," he simply said to Longba,

"Lord Longba, it is true that the Heavenly Peng Bird symbolizes the Great Snow Mountain, but the disaster of your Six Great Families and the entire Snow Plain Prefecture started from the Great Snow Mountain,

Your symbol is about to destroy you, and yet you prepare to welcome your slaughter and even applaud it—aren’t you being foolish?"

Boba finished speaking, without rushing, he enjoyed watching the slow rise of anger in Ning Jin Longba’s eyes,

This look was a masterpiece of guiding the human heart.

At such times, Boba always paused to enjoy his creation.

Although Zhou Xuan was just an observer, he too felt an inexplicable surge of anger.

The flame of this anger wasn’t subsiding.

Zhou Xuan secretly thought, "Boba’s voice carries a hidden trick, some kind of mystical skill."

He felt that Boba’s divine skills indeed easily stirred people’s anger.

"Truly deserving of the name ’Ear Listening Anger’, he skillfully manipulates the heart and the sense of anger."

Ning Jin Longba, after hearing Boba’s words, also began to resent the Heavenly Peng Bird, but as a Snowfield Person, his reverence for it was ingrained in his bones.

Longba said, "This Heavenly Peng Bird, indeed, is a fierce bird, but its status is too high."

"And what reasoning is there for such high status?"

Boba again pretended to ask, knowingly.

Though Ning Jin Longba was displeased with Boba’s behavior, he reluctantly said, "Golden Buddha, how could you not know, that the Ancient Buddha was brought into the Great Snow Mountain by the Five-Colored Divine Bull,

But he was, after all, a visitor from Outer Heaven, not accepted by the restrictions of Jing Country’s Heaven and Earth,

Although the Great Snow Mountain’s Buddha Hand was grand and brilliant, in the days following its descent, it was actually gradually withering."

Ning Jin Longba recounted the past of the "Heavenly Peng Divine Bird", unknowingly satisfying Zhou Xuan’s curiosity.

Zhou Xuan only knew that the Ancient Buddha’s birth was marked by a colossal hand, but now hearing Longba’s words, he realized that the Ancient Buddha’s growth was not smooth sailing.

"And thereafter?" Boba continued to ask.

"Afterwards, came the spirit of the Great Snow Mountain—the vast and boundless Heavenly Peng Divine Bird, which swallowed the Ancient Buddha’s giant hand in one gulp."

"The Heavenly Peng is the fiercest bird in the world, having eaten countless humans, not even fearing the Ancient Buddha,

But by some twist of fate, the Heavenly Peng Bird’s stomach isolated it from the earthly restrictions, protecting the growth of the Ancient Buddha,

A hundred years later, the Ancient Buddha’s giant hand emerged from the belly of the Heavenly Peng, reappearing in the world,

During these hundred years, being nurtured by the Heavenly Peng, the Ancient Buddha’s body absorbed Jing Country’s aura, escaping the monitoring of the heavenly restrictions,

In other words, at that moment, the Ancient Buddha truly became the Buddha of Jing Country,

The Heavenly Peng fell, its body transformed into the ’Cuomu God Peak’ of the Reincarnation Snow Mountain, and the Ancient Buddha declared it the ’Buddha Mother’, revered by all Buddhist Sect disciples."

Zhou Xuan silently nodded, realizing the root of why the Heavenly Peng Divine Bird was titled ’Buddha Mother.’

This part of the ancient history of the Snowfield was laid out by Ning Jin Longba, and Boba was very pleased, nodding as he said, "The history you narrate is indeed what countless generations of texts of the Great Snow Mountain record."

Ning Jin Longba obviously heard the undertone in Boba’s words, and he asked, "Do you mean that this part of history deviates somewhat from the truth, Golden Buddha?"