"..."
Yuan Zhuo paused outside the door, then said, "Since Junior Brother Chu isn't here, I'll come again next time?"
"Sure," Chu Liang replied.
Bang.
What followed was a heavy sound of the door being pushed open.
Chu Liang looked at that square, upright face and smiled slightly. "Long time no see, Senior Brother Yuan Zhuo."
"The one here now isn't Yuan Zhuo. It's me." The voice beneath that face was unusually weathered, carrying a trace of irritation. "You guessed, didn't you?"
"Senior Brother Yuan never leaves the Dharma Protector Pavilion," Chu Liang said with a smile.
After learning that Yuan Zhuo was one of the temple master's three thousand avatars, many of his strange behaviors became explainable—for instance, his astonishing mental capacity, his emotional detachment, and the fact that he never left the Dharma Protector Pavilion...
Strictly speaking, Yuan Zhuo was also quite an independent personality, but everything he saw and heard would be gathered back at the Divine Ruins Temple. Chu Liang could not help but be somewhat wary.
As for now, naturally, the temple master had logged in remotely.
"I had you take the Pan God Bone to eradicate Venerable Myriad Dharma. I heard it went smoothly?" The temple master sat down cross-legged and looked Chu Liang in the eye.
"Hehe." Chu Liang gave an awkward laugh. "Thanks to the temple master's blessing, it went fairly smoothly. But there's good news and bad news."
"What are they?" the temple master asked.
"The good news is naturally that Venerable Myriad Dharma has been executed. The great calamity of the Nine Provinces can now be resolved," Chu Liang said.
The immortal sects had reached a consensus on this point. Although Venerable Myriad Dharma had previously experienced his body shattering and soul scattering, only to revive regardless, that had been