Even without memories of his previous life and reborn into the mortal world, Xie Tian was still no stranger to the five words of the Womb of the Earth Bodhisattva.
Deliver from suffering, rescue from distress.
He had vowed that hell would not be empty, and until then he would not become Buddha—such a vast and mighty vow.
Furthermore, the line of the gatha "If I do not descend into hell, who will descend into hell?" was also spoken by him.
Setting aside what intent Yuan Ba had in softly chanting this gatha twice before and after, what Xie Tian could think of was that it was precisely this gatha which, when Yuan Ba was about to kill Chou Tian, first alarmed Indra, the ocean of slaughter.
Hearing the words of the enemy who had suppressed him in antiquity—if Indra didn't jump twice at that, he would be unworthy of being called a mighty one.
