Chapter 1387 - 1386: The Purpose of Great Brahma Heaven Temple’s Visit

Chapter 1387: Chapter 1386: The Purpose of Great Brahma Heaven Temple’s Visit

Lu Zheng raised an eyebrow; he hadn’t expected the Great Brahma Heaven Temple to have come for this matter.

Master Qiu Yan... Master Qi Zhi...

Back then, Lu Zheng and his group went to Zhongjing to visit Fahua Temple, and happened to come across Great Brahma Heaven Temple and Fahua Temple debating the Dharma. It ended in a draw.

Then on the road leaving the capital, two old monks from Great Brahma Heaven Temple blocked the way, wanting to invite Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan to the West to cultivate that damn "Brahma Heaven in My Cultivation Method" and obtain that damn Bodhisattva Fruit Position.

The result was naturally obvious. Snatching his people on his turf? Si Lingxi erupted, and directly burned the two old monks to ash.

Only, if that’s how it is...

Lu Zheng frowned, thought for a bit, then looked at Master Qi Kun again and asked, "Back then at the Dharma debate in Zhongjing, you were there too?"

"Amitabha Buddha!"

Master Qi Kun folded his hands in a salute. "This poor monk did not participate in the debate, and furthermore sat in the very back. Donor Lu not recognizing this poor monk is only natural."

Lu Zheng nodded in understanding.

The situation was clear now. After the debate in Zhongjing that year, Great Brahma Heaven Temple’s Master Qiu Yan and Master Qi Zhi came to block the road. This Master Qi Kun also knew about it.

Then those two monks died. Of course Great Brahma Heaven Temple could guess that Lu Zheng’s group must have taken part in killing them. When they ran into them again a few days ago and learned where Lu Zheng and the others were staying, they brought people to the door.

It’s just that, there was still a question.

After that battle back then, the Spiritual Martial King of the Da Jing Court appeared afterward and had once promised Si Lingxi that he would go warn Great Brahma Heaven Temple, telling them to behave themselves in the Central Plains from then on.

Looks like it didn’t work, huh...

But no matter what, he still had to ask, right?

Lu Zheng’s eyes narrowed; he frowned and asked, "The Da Jing Court never warned you?"

"Amitabha Buddha!"

This time it was Master Du Mo at the side who replied with a cheerful smile, "The Da Jing Court truly has no authority over our Western Buddha Country."

Lu Zheng let out a mocking snort. "Big words."

"Although the two mages of our temple did not die by your hand, they ultimately died because of you."

Master Tucha suddenly spoke. "This poor monk seeks you out to resolve this grievance. For you as well, it is karmic retribution."

"Hmm?"

Lu Zheng raised an eyebrow, not understanding for a moment what Master Tucha meant. But when he looked again at the three monks’ eyes, he immediately got it.

So these three monks think that Master Qiu Yan and Master Qi Zhi did not die by his hand, but that he delayed them, and after the experts of Zhongjing rushed over, they died at the hands of the Court’s people!

Or rather, at the very least Court people joined in besieging them, and then finished them off.

Lu Zheng’s eyes shifted. Thinking it over, it actually made some sense.

Given Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan’s Dao Practice, they obviously weren’t qualified to hold those two off, while his own cultivation just happened to be about the right level.

In terms of strength, he couldn’t beat those two monks. But those two monks wanting to take him and the people under his protection in a short time was also absolutely impossible.

Except...

If that’s the case, shouldn’t the real target be the Da Jing Court?

"Then how are you going to settle your karmic entanglement with the Court?" Lu Zheng asked curiously.

"Amitabha Buddha!"

Master Qi Kun chanted the Buddha’s name. "The Western Buddha Country and the Da Jing Court’s grievances and karmic ties have already been entwined for a hundred years. There will naturally come a time for them to be settled."

Hearing this, Lu Zheng couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh. Nice phrasing, but first they directly swapped Great Brahma Heaven Temple out for the Western Buddha Country, and second, they stuffed this matter into the big running tab.

The overall ledger between the Da Jing Court and the Western Buddha Country—wouldn’t that be a muddled account?

How could it ever be calculated clearly?

But by doing it this way, they don’t have to go confront the Da Jing Court just for this particular incident.

"You monks play a slick game of logic."

Lu Zheng shook his head and said mockingly, "Sure enough, even though it’s two different worlds, human nature is still human nature. Even Enlightened Monks can’t escape it." Lu Zheng said coolly.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean your Great Brahma Heaven Temple bullies the weak and fears the strong. No wonder you hide in a corner and get beaten down by Fahua Temple." Lu Zheng snapped.

"Amitabha Buddha!"

Master Tucha, Master Du Mo, and Master Qi Kun all folded their hands together and chanted the Buddha’s name.

The plain truth is the most hurtful.

Nothing cuts deeper than killing the heart.

"You don’t dare openly cross the Da Jing Court, but I, Lu Mou, am also a disciple of White Cloud Temple!" Lu Zheng decisively pulled out his backing.

"White Cloud Temple is one of the leaders of the Central Plains Daoist Sect, seated in Three Rivers Dao Jizhou Prefecture, famed far and wide, blessing lands for a thousand miles. My fellow brothers and I would never dare offend them by barging in." Master Qi Kun said.

"However, our Great Brahma Heaven Temple is also the nation-guarding spiritual temple of the Western Brahma Heaven Buddha Country. If any Quanzhen of Dao from White Cloud Temple wishes to come to the Brahma Heaven Buddha Country to seek instruction from us, we would sincerely welcome experts of the Central Plains to grace us." Master Du Mo said with a cheerful smile.

Lu Zheng’s eyes hardened; his pupils shrank.

"So you’re openly saying you don’t dare talk tough to the Court, and you don’t dare go to Jizhou to demand an explanation from my sect. You only pick on me, alone here in Tonglin County, setting up house with no one to rely on, ready to pinch me as you please?" Lu Zheng sneered.

"Amitabha Buddha!"

Master Tucha’s thick brows drooped as he said in a deep voice, "Donor Lu, there’s no need to keep struggling with words. The fact that our temple’s two high monks died by your hand is undeniable. Today, you dying by my hand is likewise only proper."

"Karmic cycles turn; retribution never fails." Master Qi Kun said.

"In a next life, when you are reborn, this grievance will be concluded." Master Du Mo said.

"You want to kill me, and then after you kill me, you still plan to have our grievance ’concluded’?" Lu Zheng stared, dumbfounded. "I’ll conclude a damn thing with you!"

What kind of screwed-up brain circuit is this?

Standing beside Lu Zheng, Si Lingxi finally spoke. "If they’re going to kill you, of course they’ll kill you clean, completely, with your soul scattered, your Divine Soul annihilated. How could they possibly leave behind a broken remnant of soul to let you reincarnate and carry things into another life?"

"And once body perishes and Dao collapses, Divine Soul erased, naturally the grievance is concluded and karma is no more." Si Lingxi said calmly.

Lu Zheng: ???

Damn, that actually makes sense!

Only at this point did Master Tucha and the other two finally turn their gaze onto Si Lingxi. At the same time, a flicker of wariness flashed in all three of their eyes.

Just now, who knows why, they had subconsciously ignored the woman beside Lu Zheng, only feeling like she was a character similar to Shen Ying or Liu Qingyan, someone they could casually take down.

But facing three high monks of Great Brahma Heaven Temple, not only was Lu Zheng completely unafraid, even this woman’s face was expressionless.

Either she trusted Lu Zheng absolutely, or she couldn’t tell who among those present had higher or lower cultivation.

However...

Would the woman by Lu Zheng’s side really be that stupid?

"May I ask how the female donor should be addressed?" Master Qi Kun asked solemnly.

Among the three monks from Great Brahma Heaven Temple present, his cultivation was the lowest, so he was the most alert.

"If your monk Fansa came, he’d still have the qualification to speak to me. What the hell are you three that you dare ask my name?"