Dusheng Nunnery.
Li Kuanghua's breakthrough radiated with brilliant Buddhist light.
At this moment, Nun Dairou sat cross-legged alongside Dharma Master Hongzhen and Dharma Master Hongdan.
Chants echoed in overlapping layers, and the entire Buddhist pagoda was covered in Buddhist runes.
"Dharma Master Hong Kuang's breakthrough is imminent. It wasn't in vain that we built a Buddhist temple and erected a Buddha statue for her."
It had been a year since Dharma Master Hongdan's incense offerings were stolen. By now, she had long forgotten those unhappy matters.
Watching Li Kuanghua's Buddhist light, she felt extremely gratified.
"Dharma Master Hong Kuang's Buddha statue has received the gift of vital blood and energy from martial artists.
Given time, breaking through to the Body Integration realm is just around the corner."
"You two must not slack off either."
Nun Dairou urged, "Spread the Buddhist Dharma. When I break through, we will no longer have to fear Holy Monk Yidian.
The day the Crown Prince returns to the court will be the day our Buddhist Dao flourishes."
"Nun." Dharma Master Hongzhen's expression held some doubt.
"Back then, Holy Monk Yidian exterminated our Buddhist sect, and in Shadowfell Prefecture... we were the first to retreat, causing Shadowfell Prefecture to fall.
Will the people of the world still be able to tolerate us?"
"I have my own plans." Nun Dairou's expression was calm; she already had a well-thought-out strategy.
"Hongdan is already at the extreme limit of the Void Refinement realm, and Hongzhen has even reached the Half-Step Body Integration realm. Now we also have Hong Kuang.
Let alone the fact that I have my own calculations in how I act, when the time comes, and our Buddhist sect has three Body Integration experts, and we summon the Buddhist disciples of the world, what in this world will there be to fear?"
"Yes, Nun."
Hongzhen deeply agreed.
Their Buddhist Dharma was profound, and the people of the world who received the Buddhist Dharma knew to repay the grace.
Coupled with the fact that there were few Buddhist sects in the world today, the speed at which their Bodhisattva statues spread the power of faith was even faster than they had anticipated.
For Void Refinement realm experts like them, this kind of speed surpassed any opportunity in the world.
Hongzhen was confident that in another few hundred years, their single sect would have more Body Integration experts.
"Nun, there is one matter that still makes Hongzhen feel uneasy to this day." Hongzhen still had a somewhat solemn expression.
"A year ago, Hongdan's incense offerings were stolen. Since the other party had the means to steal our incense offerings, they must have had a motive.
Yet they only stole it once and then made no further moves, leaving us completely clueless as to who did it."
"Senior Sister, you really had to bring that up."
Hongdan clenched her fists tightly. She had a habit of saving up her faith power.
She simply couldn't resist the thrill of saving up a massive amount of faith power until she could break through a realm in one fell swoop, even if it was just a minor realm.
But it was precisely this habit that had harmed her, allowing the incense offerings she had saved for over twenty years to be stolen by someone.
"Shameless little thief, breaking precepts (the five Buddhist precepts: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and intoxication) before the Buddha. Don't let me find out who did it, otherwise I'll let them see the Wrathful Bodhisattva."
Dharma Master Hongdan let out a cold snort.
Just as the three of them were talking, they all furrowed their brows and looked toward the cloudy sky of the Dusheng Nunnery's Grotto-Heaven.
Dharma Master Hongdan was straightforward by nature and immediately shouted, "Oh no, someone has found the location of our Buddhist sect!"
Within the cloudy sky of the Dusheng Nunnery's Grotto-Heaven, a cold gleam could be seen piercing through the clouds and flying into the Grotto-Heaven.
With a twirl, it landed inside the Buddhist pagoda where the three of them were.
It was a dagger.
The dagger was a common weapon, pitch-black all over, standing slanted right in the middle of the three of them.
From the dagger, a wisp of Void Refinement absolute limit Spiritual power emanated, and a voice transmitted through the lingering resonance of the Spiritual power.
"The Azure Cloud Li Clan is coming to kill. Flee quickly."
The expressions of the three changed.
The Dusheng Nunnery's Grotto-Heaven transformed into a green lotus and hid within the void; this was the concealment method they had used for many years.
They acted with extreme caution.
Even when sending disciples to the mortal realm to build Buddhist temples and seize faith, it was done by having Nun Dairou put the disciples into the cauldrons to seize bodies using the Buddhist Dharma of the "Sutra of Rebirth."
Inside the cauldrons, the disciples' memories would be washed away. Absolutely no one knew their location.
Even when they extorted faith, it was stored inside the Buddha statues, and they would cautiously and meticulously bring the Buddha statues back.
"Wait, this dagger... it has the aura of the person who stole my incense offerings." Dharma Master Hongdan grew even angrier. "Bastard! This is a provocation!"
"No, it is not a provocation."
Nun Dairou's phoenix-like brows furrowed tightly.
"The person sending the message has no reason to provoke us.
Since he stole Hongdan's incense offerings and then hid, absolutely refusing to be greedy for more, it proves that his schemes are even greater.
This kind of person wouldn't provoke us easily."
"Then this..."
Hongdan looked at the dagger in confusion. "And his message..."
Nun Dairou said, "The only possibility is that this person has an ulterior motive, and what he said is true.
The Azure Cloud Li Clan was, most likely, lured here by the person sending the message.
The messenger wants us and the Azure Cloud Li Clan to go to war, thereby allowing him to sit back and reap the fisherman's profit."
"This..." Dharma Master Hongzhen and Dharma Master Hongdan exchanged a glance.
Dharma Master Hongzhen said, "Nun, your calculations are truly divine."
"No." Nun Dairou looked at the dagger indifferently.
"I can simply sense the aura on this dagger. Having cultivated in Shadowfell Prefecture for so many years, Benefactor Yun Hongcai is still as despicable as ever."
"Yun Hongcai?!!"
Dharma Master Hongdan's expression was ugly.
"The ancestor of the Yun Clan whose lifespan is nearing its end?
His Yun Clan has already been exterminated by the Azure Cloud Li Clan, yet he still dares to provoke our Dusheng Nunnery and lure the Azure Cloud Li Clan here!
Nun, if the Azure Cloud Li Clan dares to trespass into our Dusheng Nunnery, we will send them to meet the Buddha!
And Yun Hongcai—he can only go down to the eighteenth layer of hell!"
"To seek revenge against my Dusheng Nunnery, the Azure Cloud Li Clan is unworthy!"
"To reap benefits from my Dusheng Nunnery, he, Yun Hongcai, is unworthy!"