Within Mangshan City.
The madly surging demons, devils, and evil spirits had placed enormous pressure on this newly built city of the Northern Region. Originally, only the Mangshan disciples lived in the city, so it had not been particularly large. Now that it had become a gathering place for evil spirits from all four seas, it immediately descended into utter chaos.
Fortunately, Chu Yi had issued orders in time, forbidding anyone other than humans from entering the city. The remaining evil spirits could only wait outside for the city to expand, finally stemming the disorder within. Yet amid such chaos and lawlessness, evil spirits charged the city at every moment.
He therefore ordered Lü Jiangtong to lead a team, dealing ruthlessly with any troublemakers. Only then was the turmoil quelled. But it was foreseeable that, as more and more evil spirits—and even humans—who wished to follow Venerable Myriad Dharma poured into the Northern Region, the chaos here would only intensify.
That was right. Even under such circumstances, many human believers still firmly believed that Venerable Myriad Dharma remained the boundlessly compassionate great sage he had once been, and that only by following him could they reach the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
Even though the Yu Dynasty had already spread word throughout the Nine Provinces that Venerable Myriad Dharma was the ancient nameless Buddha who had fallen into demonic cultivation and cultivated anew, his purpose being to slaughter every living creature in the world.
Yet in the ears of those fervent believers, they only heard half of it: "What? The Venerable was originally an ancient Buddha? Then following him definitely can't be wrong!"
No matter how extensively the imperial court publicized the evil deeds he had committed, the believers would only think that they were deliberately smearing their Venerable.
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