Stop it, Taoist, Your Fight almost Ruins the DAO!
Chapter 941 - 514: Crafty Moves, Bai Yunzi Secures the Prize, Red Dust Buddha, True Technique Observing!

Great Qin Western Region.

The Sumitra Zen Institute is located on Lotus Platform Mountain, a precious mountain monastery. Though the mountain path is difficult, its incense offering ceremonies are flourishing; countless believers constantly brave hardships and traverse mountains and rivers to present their offerings.

A huge city has long since formed at the foot of Lotus Platform Mountain.

With its bustling silks and satins, noisy flutes and drums, boats clouding the waters, the bustle never ceases, night or day.

Moreover, the mighty Guicang River flows through here, bringing fertile land as far as the eye can see, watering countless fields on both banks, where waves of wheat ripple in the wind and the scent of rice blooms speaks of bountiful years; truly a sight to behold.

The Sumitra Zen Institute is divided into a front and a back temple.

The front temple is mostly where monks who study the Buddhist scriptures reside and handle secular affairs, decipher divinations, teach the dharma, and spread Buddhism widely.

Naturally, the Sumitra Zen Institute also has sources of income such as temple fields and mineral resources, but compared to the Buddhist temples in Central Continent, these are hardly worth mentioning, especially the temple fields.

This is not because the Sumitra Zen Institute is of higher virtue, but rather because Ying Si disallows it.

The back temple is mostly where cultivating monks reside, fewer in number, but their status is even more transcendent.

Because the competition on the Eastern Continent is fierce, not only between sects, but with Great Qin watching like a tiger; the criticism of Buddhism is still less tangible than the criticism that can truly sway people's hearts.

By the combined efforts and mutual support of the front and back courtyards, the Sumitra Zen Institute in the lands of the Western Region of Great Qin can be said to have an illustrious reputation.

Today, the sun rises in the east.

In the rear courtyard's treasure hall of the domineering Sumitra Zen Institute in the Western Region, many high monks are gathered together.

As the sole inheritor of the Buddhist scriptures of his generation, Jia Shenmi naturally occupies the seat of honor. His eyebrows are like snow, his energy deep like an abyss, exceedingly eye-catching. Unknowingly, he has reached the Breakthrough Limit Double Layer Realm. Should he wield the Buddha Treasure left by the Heavenly Buddha, his combat power is astonishing.

Below him, nine senior monks draped in golden red kasayas sit in high positions, all of whom are at the Dao Mastery Realm. Among them, the two leading monks have energy vast like the sea; one has touched the very edge of Breakthrough Limit, his might surpassing even the Shura Monk who once surrounded Yi Chen, and the other has already Broken Through.

"Esteemed monks, Great Qin is now extensively searching for martial scriptures throughout the lands; the Cultivation of Yi Chengzi, the dazzling State Preceptor, is so exceptional I need not speak of it. Now Ying Si has sent out an imperial edict, desiring to cast a golden body for the Heavenly Buddha Relic. Esteemed senior monks, how shall we decide on this matter?"

The white-browed old monk Jia Shenmi, with a calm demeanor, rotates the prayer beads in his hand, his words falling like beads.

"Jia Shenmi, my nephew, this matter must absolutely not proceed."

"Since the Third Patriarch emerged from the Patriarch's secret land, our Sumitra Zen Institute set the rule early on to neither come nor go from there, to prevent the Patriarch's relic from being tainted by worldly dust and disturbing its purity."

"Moreover, the secret land of the Patriarch is critical to the protective Great Formation of our Sumitra Zen Institute. This place is connected to the water veins of the Guicang River and the earth veins of Lotus Platform Mountain. Opening the Patriarch's secret land might damage our monastery's millennia foundation."

"Great Qin's power is immense, we simply need not clash with that Yi Chengzi, why open the Patriarch's secret land to please the Dao Sect's Yi Chengzi?"

Under the signal of the leading Breakthrough Limit old monk, the second senior monk seated on the left stood up to face Jia Shenmi with a bow and spoke, his expression showing a fair bit of agitation.

"Do not be anxious, Uncle Master. We do not yet know how Great Qin became aware of the Patriarch's relic matter; the matter is still undetermined." Looking at the agitated monk, Jia Shenmi inwardly sighed, and can only placate continuously.

These uncles of his have been cultivating in the monastery for many years, and they are unaware that the outside world has already turned upside down for the past few years. Aren't some things just not as simple as not wanting to do them?

"Abbot, I believe Uncle Master's points are indeed reasonable."

"Our Sumitra Zen Institute has not wronged Great Qin. With the present anomalies in the world, our monastery has expended great efforts in each major event, and has never offended the Great Qin State Master."

"For such a trivial matter, could that Taoist Yi Chengzi really assault our monastery gates? Abbot, there's no need for you to worry too much about this; Taoist Priest Yi Chengzi, though fierce as fire, surely would not commit such a bandit act."

"Taoist Priest Yi Chengzi would absolutely not be so foolish as to make every sect in the world feel threatened, risking his own ruin and disgrace."

Following the words of the leading Breakthrough Limit old monk, the situation in the hall quickly became one-sided as the monks echoed in agreement.

Seeing such a scene, Jia Shenmi could only sigh deeply in his heart.

Although he had the highest Cultivation, such important matters were not something he could decide alone; moreover, these uncles and elder brothers had treated him extremely well in the past and did not compete with him afterward, but rather ceded the chance to inherit the sole Buddhist scripture to him.

Against such prevailing sentiments, just as Jia Shenmi was about to speak, a purple-haired young girl descended from the sky.

Who else could this person be, if not Lin Luo, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice of Great Qin?

Lin Luo, holding an imperial edict, gracefully walked into the Buddha Hall.

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"State Preceptor, your plan is indeed cunning... and brilliant!"

"But will the Sumitra Zen Institute really agree?"

Inside the Imperial Palace, Ying Si and Yi Chen are gripping black and white pieces, competing for the idle title of Great Qin's Chess Saint within the study room, engrossed in a tightly contested game. As evenly matched players meet, talent encounters talent, and out of five games for three victories, each has won two. They have now entered the final determining game.

"Your Majesty, do you know what are life's three hardest bowls of noodles to swallow?" Yi Chen did not answer directly, instead, he smiled faintly and placed a black piece on the board again.

"Oh? Which three bowls of noodles are those?" Ying Si, looking at the chessboard, fell into deep thought.

"These three bowls of noodles are, of course, human relations, sentiments, and social interactions!"

"Since secret news such as the 'Thousand-World Glazed Light' and the Heavenly Buddha Relic has been leaked, at the very least, it proves that the Sumitra Zen Institute is not a monolith; there are those within who are inclined to be on good terms with Great Qin."

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