"Dingxiang must be an absolute idiot. Doesn't she know that walls have ears?"
"Well, there aren't any walls here, to be fair. But Dingxiang really is more of a hindrance than a help."
"It took the Jade Emperor two hundred million years to attain his immortal body. Look at the Monkey and Erlangshen—they barely took ten years altogether, by any calculation."
"Old Zhu doesn't have the Monkey's clout, haha. The Peach Banquet invited the Monkey, but Bajie was left out in the cold."
"They probably figured they didn't prepare enough food for Bajie, so they didn't invite him."
Inside the Celestial Screen, just as the Jade Emperor was about to take the opportunity to finalize the pardon for the Third Holy Mother, the Queen Mother—who had been hesitant and restrained just a moment before—suddenly chimed in and interrupted,
"Well, in that case, then..."
"Your Majesty, once the Third Holy Mother is pardoned, what shall we do if anyone else is seized by mortal desires?"
"When I ask your opinion, you say nothing, but the moment I make a decision, you jump in. Look..."
"Oh, I only just figured it out myself! Let me debate him on this."
What could the Jade Emperor do? Could he make his own wife lose face in front of all the immortals? Naturally, he had to indulge her.
Having received the Jade Emperor's tacit consent, the Queen Mother turned around and went straight for the jug against the bewildered Chenxiang:
"If she is pardoned so easily, who will ever take the Heavenly Statutes seriousl…
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