Chapter 55 (Part 2)

Good heavens. The Buddhist Sect’s abbot cried out, “Good heavens!” Although that treasure ultimately appeared in another sect, the Buddhist Sect’s abbot dared to be certain that the ones who had robbed it were people from the Taizhen Immortal Sect.

So after realizing that this one big and one small pair were disciples of the Taizhen Immortal Sect, they did not dare have the slightest crooked thought.

Besides, they indeed had no bad intentions. They were only thinking that the City Lord’s Manor was relatively safe, that their conversation would not easily be overheard by outsiders, and that it could leave the Buddhist Sect a bit of face.

“Eldest Senior Brother?”

Yu Yu looked toward Lingji, asking whether they should accept their invitation.

“Fine.”

Lingji agreed. Even if it was for the sake of ensuring his junior brother’s efforts were not wasted, he still had to press that previous Arhat to death.

One Arhat led the way in front, while another escorted his junior brother at the rear.

“Many thanks to our benefactors for saving our lives.”

“Thank you.”

“Many thanks, honored benefactors.”

Along the way, the whole city’s people knelt before Yu Yu and Lingji, continuously kowtowing.

There were also some low-level cultivators who all bowed to Yu Yu and the others one after another.

The evil path cultivator was a Tribulation cultivator. Ordinary cultivators like them had no way to do anything, and there was no possibility of escaping.

As for the Arhat who should have protected them but had never shown himself, only appearing at the end, it was not as if there were no perceptive people among the commoners. They all revealed mocking smiles.

Facing the dissatisfaction of the whole city’s people, the two Arhats’ faces were full of bitterness. Their junior brother did not know, but they knew clearly in their hearts.

Among these common people, many were the parents of little novice monks from their Buddhist Sect.

Among them, a few were even relatives of their senior brothers, martial uncles, or martial great-uncles.

Their junior brother had lost his head for a moment and committed a sin. Although he had not succeeded, he had still offended those senior brothers, martial uncles, and martial great-uncles.

Even if they did not say anything, once those senior brothers, martial uncles, and martial great-uncles received the news, their junior brother would still be punished.

Colluding with an evil path cultivator—forget ascending to the Buddhist Realm. If their junior brother could leave Demon-Subduing Cave, then they would count it as their loss.

Those senior brothers, martial uncles, and martial great-uncles, whose strength and status were both higher than theirs, would absolutely not let their junior brother off.

With such a monstrous disaster, if they did not use their junior brother’s life to pay for it, how could the abbot appease the Buddhist disciples within the sect?

If other people followed this example, the Buddhist Sect would be in danger.

How was this still cultivating Buddhism? This was clearly entering the evil path!

It was said that Buddhism and demons could not coexist, but in this world, demon cultivators and Buddhists merely found each other displeasing.

Demon cultivators were not evil cultivators, and they would not wantonly create killing karma. So in this world, the Buddhist Sect and evil cultivators had become mortal enemies.

To hook up with their mortal enemy and harm the lives of an entire city’s common people—such an evil deed truly made it hard to believe that it had been done by an eminent Buddhist monk.

The common people who survived had long since contacted their relatives in the Buddhist Sect.

The other party had already come from the Buddhist Sect. This matter would not be easily erased.

Even if the abbot wanted to plead for mercy on his behalf, it would be impossible for him to be spared.

Only by handling it strictly could they intimidate the rest of the disciples.

Even an Arhat would lose his life. All the more so ordinary disciples. If they dared collude with evil cultivators, then Immortal-Receiving City’s Arhat would be their fate.

By the time Yu Yu and the others finally squeezed through the enthusiastic common people and reached the City Lord’s Manor, the Buddhist Sect disciples who had received the news had already arrived.

When Yu Yu and Lingji saw this scene, they inexplicably felt a little delighted at another’s misfortune.

Oh my, a person really could not do guilty things. That Arhat named Yuantong had now stumbled, had he not?

He had probably never expected that so many Buddhist Sect disciples would appear in this Immortal-Receiving City.

The success rate of producing talent was very high, so the disaster he had caused was even bigger.

Yuantong even saw several martial great-uncles and martial uncles, as well as one senior brother from the Discipline Hall whom he usually feared greatly.

Now he was really done for. No saving him. Might as well bury him on the spot.

“Many thanks to you two for saving the lives of this poor monk’s relatives. This is our gift of thanks.”

Under the lead of the most senior eminent monk, the monks presented gifts of thanks.

Monks also understood worldly courtesy. When someone had saved your family, it truly would not be right not to give a gift of thanks.

Every Buddhist disciple had prepared some gifts of thanks. Even disciples who had business and could not come had asked fellow disciples to bring gifts on their behalf.

The more disciples who gave gifts, the more they reminded Yuantong exactly what stupid things he had done.

Even if the evil cultivator had sucked away the souls of the whole city’s people today, it could not have been hidden from these disciples.

In other words, even if Yuantong’s scheme had succeeded, his final fate would not have been good. Yu Yu was even somewhat doubtful. If he had schemed so much for the sake of merit, would Heavenly Dao actually give it to him?

After all, the one who had lured away the two Arhat senior brothers was Yuantong. He had also colluded with an evil cultivator and let the other party into the city to harm the common people. With the result of such actions, even if he had ultimately killed the evil cultivator to avenge the common people, it probably could not count as merit, right?

Could merit obtained through schemes still be considered merit? Neither Yu Yu nor Lingji could understand it, so this question could only be set aside for the time being.

After all, Yuantong’s scheme had not succeeded, had it?

It had been ruined by Yu Yu and Lingji, who had suddenly appeared in Immortal-Receiving City. One saved people, and one killed the evil cultivator. Both of them gained merit. It was just that Yu Yu had saved too many people and delivered countless souls onward, so he obscured much of the role Lingji had played in it.

Even the fact that Lingji received twenty percent of the merit did not draw Yuantong’s attention.

Because by comparison, Yu Yu’s merit was far too dazzling. Yuantong was so jealous he was nearly driven mad. These merits should originally have been his, but now they had all benefited that brat from the Taizhen Immortal Sect.

The hateful thing was that he could not beat Lingji, so he could not even avenge himself.

Yes, that Yuantong actually still believed that Yu Yu and the others had stolen his merit, and thus he hated the pair of senior and junior brothers.

He simply did not dare show his thoughts. No one wanted to go up against the sword madmen of the Holy Sun lineage.

Even far away from Central Province, they had heard the rumors that Daoist Lord Qingyang was unreasonable.

“Yuantong, do you know your crime?”

The Buddhist Sect’s martial great-uncle of the Yuan generation, Arhat Shixin, sat at the very center. He was the presiding judge of this trial.

As for Yu Yu and Lingji, they sat on guest seats to the side, quietly watching this scene. They were outsiders, so it was not appropriate for them to interfere in the Buddhist Sect’s affairs. If they had not happened to be present this time, they would not now be sitting here watching the trial either.

In truth, this trial was only a formality, because everyone knew in their hearts that Yuantong was not clean in this matter, and might even be the mastermind.

Shixin and the others did not even need to question Yu Yu and Lingji. Yuantong’s behavior when the evil cultivator came was enough. Everyone here was a thousand-year-old fox, so there was no need to play strange tales.

What Yuantong had been planning could be known by having Yuande and Yuanxing cross-check their accounts.

The two of them had been sent away by Yuantong one after the other. The reason he used was that he had discovered an evil cultivator outside the city and asked the two senior brothers to go investigate.

Look at that. The reason was very well chosen. In fact, an evil cultivator had indeed appeared. It was just that this evil cultivator was colluding with Yuantong to scheme against the entire Immortal-Receiving City.

However, the evil cultivator and Yuantong did not trust each other either. One monk and one evil cultivator each had their own calculations. As for the evil cultivator’s calculations, since he was already dead now, no one could figure them out.

But it was certain that Yuantong wanted the evil cultivator’s life. He had merely wanted to use the evil cultivator to earn Heavenly Dao merit.

Mm. The plan was honestly quite well made. It was just drawing water with a bamboo basket—all for nothing. He got absolutely nothing.

More importantly, the city’s common people were unharmed, and only the two culprits who had plotted everything fell into the net.

One was killed, and one was captured.

All the benefits were picked up by Yu Yu and Lingji, these two Daoist disciples who had no choice but to temporarily live in Immortal-Receiving City because they needed to wait for the teleportation array to open.

So, some things were truly hard to say. Some people schemed and plotted, yet not only did they get nothing, they even exposed themselves. Their reputation was ruined, and they made a pile of enemies.

Yu Yu and Lingji, on the other hand, were people chased by the heavens and fed straight into their mouths. Who could have thought that one of the two of them would have a bonded spiritual weapon that just so happened to counter the Myriad Ghost Banner?

Even more unexpected was that the evil cultivator who refined the Myriad Ghost Banner could not beat Lingji.

Good heavens. Of this senior and junior brother pair, one countered the Myriad Ghost Banner, and one countered the evil cultivator. No matter how the other party struggled, he could not escape the beating from these two senior and junior brothers.

Where could he go to argue about this? In any case, the evil cultivator had not even been able to leave his primordial spirit behind. He was thoroughly accounted for.

As for Yuantong, he could not find any excuse to clear his name either, because all the evidence pointed to him.

Add to that the fact that he had clearly been in the City Lord’s Manor, yet remained unmoved when the evil cultivator appeared. How could he possibly clear his name with just a few words?

Yuantong confessed on the spot, making the Buddhist Sect furious.

The head seat of the Discipline Hall personally brought people to investigate. After confirming the facts, he personally destroyed Yuantong’s sarira cultivation and spiritual root. Without cultivation and without a spiritual root, Yuantong instantly turned to ash and vanished before everyone.

Yu Yu and Lingji looked at each other. Neither of them had expected this head seat to act so mercilessly, resolving Yuantong cleanly and efficiently.

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