"Technically speaking, in my current state, I can indeed be considered dead," Li Xiu nodded and said.
His current situation was no different from being separated by life and death. Saying he's dead would not be an exaggeration.
"Now that you understand, it makes things easier. Now you can beg ," the Spirit Jar said smugly.
"Beg you? Why should I beg you?" Li Xiu asked, puzzled.
"Don't you want to be resurrected? Right now, I'm the only one who can help you co back to life," the Spirit Jar said.
"You killed , and now you want to help resurrect. Are you the fool, or am I?" Li Xiu scoffed with disdain.
"Neither of us is a fool. I help you resurrect, and you help with one thing," the Spirit Jar said.
"Let's hear it," Li Xiu said nonchalantly.
"It's simple, after you resurrect, you need to take back to the deepest part of the Bottomless Pit," the Spirit Jar said.
"Why do you want to go back?" Li Xiu asked leisurely, not feeling any happiness.
"It's not that I want to go back; it's that I can only be there. If it wasn't for that bastard bringing out, who would want to stay in a place like this?" the Spirit Jar said.
"Oh, who brought you out of the Bottomless Pit?" Li Xiu asked with interest.
"Are you interested in these questions, or do you want to be resurrected?" the Spirit Jar snorted coldly.
"I am naturally more curious than others. If I had to choose between resurrection or knowing the answers to these secrets, I would choose to know the answers to these secrets," Li Xiu smiled and said.
The Spirit Jar stared at Li Xiu intently for a while before snorting coldly, "People like you deserve a short life."
"Living for the mont, death is without regret," Li Xiu said calmly.
The Spirit Jar really couldn't deal with Li Xiu. From the beginning, Li Xiu's actions were completely unexpected, making it challenging for the Spirit Jar to grasp Li Xiu's thought patterns. The maneuvers it usually employed had no effect on Li Xiu.
"Besides the Demon Country Celestial Emperor, which human could enter the Bottomless Pit to do such a thing?" the Spirit Jar sighed.
"So it was the Demon Country Celestial Emperor. Why didn't you deal with him?" Li Xiu asked with a smile.
"At the ti, I just wanted to co out for a stroll, hence I fell into his trap, got left behind in the Demon Kingdom, and was sealed inside an Ancient Gold Box by him," the Spirit Jar snorted.
"Was it that you fell into a trap, or you couldn't do anything to the Demon Country Celestial Emperor?" Li Xiu detected the discrepancy in the Spirit Jar's words.
"Hmph, think what you want. What is the Demon Country Celestial Emperor anyway? If it wasn't for..." the Spirit Jar abruptly stopped as if realizing it had said sothing it shouldn't, then continued, "The Demon Country Celestial Emperor didn't gain any advantage either. He sealed in that Ancient Gold Box, yet I didn't let him have an easy ti. His most cherished little daughter fell for my trick, turning into so half-human, half-ghost monster..."
"Are you talking about the Celestial Princess?" Li Xiu began to sowhat believe the tale.
"What Celestial Princess? She only got that nickna after being calculated by ," the Spirit Jar said proudly, "Do you know why she got the Celestial Princess nickna?"
"Why?" Li Xiu asked.
"Because she has the Celestial Eye," the Spirit Jar laughed foolishly, its nine eyes nearly laughing into flowers.
"Celestial Eye?" Li Xiu was familiar with the term Celestial Eye.
The Celestial Eye is a kind of great divine power in Buddhism, allowing one to see the suffering and joy of the six beings in the cycle of life and death, and see all manner of forms in the world without obstruction. It is one of the Six Divine Powers of Buddhism, a great divine power that sees everything.
In layman's terms, it's akin to the Thousand-Mile Eye or X-ray Vision but stronger, even enabling one to see the past and future cycles of the six realms.
Of course, these are all just legends; no one has actually seen soone who truly possesses the Celestial Eye.
"Yes, the Celestial Eye. Do you want to possess the Celestial Eye? I can also help you acquire the Celestial Eye," the Spirit Jar's voice was like a seductive demon luring one into Hell.
"I could go for that," Li Xiu said with a steady expression.
"After the Celestial Princess acquired the Celestial Eye, she could see the true nature beneath the human guise. It's indeed fascinating. Are you sure you want it?" The Spirit Jar laughed foolishly.
"What do you an?" Li Xiu frowned and asked.
"Have you heard of the term inner beauty? So-called inner beauty is the true nature, the beauty of the soul; the facade is the apparent nature. The Celestial Eye allows you to see the true nature through the facade," the Spirit Jar said.
"Isn't that good?" Li Xiu pondered.
"It would be good to see beautiful true nature. Unfortunately, humans are not as beautiful a species as you think," the Spirit Jar chuckled. "Beneath the beautiful exterior of humans often lies faces as hideous as evil spirits. The more people covet the Celestial Princess, the uglier their true nature appears to her."
"Your parents, your best friends, everyone around you, in your eyes, will turn into evil spirits in human skin, baring fangs as if they might devour you at any mont. Wouldn't that be fun?" The Spirit Jar laughed, as if speaking of a most amusing matter.
But Li Xiu felt his scalp tingle. He could imagine the terror and despair of a naive teenage girl, surrounded every day by those human skin evil spirits.
"No wonder legend says the Celestial Princess loves skinning people, turns out it is so," Li Xiu sighed.
"Do you still want the Celestial Eye? I can fulfill that for you right now. With the Celestial Eye, you can enjoy pleasures that others can never experience. From then on, as you peep at beauties, you'll see clusters of rosy skeletons clad in human skin. The one sleeping beside you as a wife will resemble a ghostly beauty. If you wish, you can even have a child with her. Don't assu children are pure and innocent; you'd be gravely mistaken. Human nature is inherently evil, and children are the ugliest demons when born. Perhaps you can observe how much the child's hideous true nature resembles you... Do you... still want it?" The Spirit Jar's nine eyes glared at Li Xiu, as if they were the demonic eyes piercing the soul.
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