"Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, Heavenly Ingenuity Sect?" Lin Xuan's pupils shrank slightly, and a trace of surprise appeared on his face. "Could they be among the Seven Great Powers..."
"Senior is correct." The young cultivator nodded. "No one knows what strange breed of Demon Monster this Giant Monster is, but ever since it appeared, several hundred million mortals in the secular world have been killed or wounded. Even we immortal cultivators have suffered disastrous losses. Rogue Cultivators aside, more than a dozen sects and clans alone have been washed in blood. If it is left unchecked, it will become a calamity for all of Cloud Province. What is especially terrifying is that the more cultivators this thing devours, the faster its strength grows. In a few more years, perhaps truly no one will be able to restrain it. That is why the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and Heavenly Ingenuity Sect stepped forward to summon everyone, hoping to borrow the strength of fellow Daoists from all sides and eradicate this scourge in one stroke."
Lin Xuan fell silent in thought.
The Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, as its name implied, was the foremost Buddhist sect of the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces, and its strength was astonishingly formidable. Aside from the abbot, the elders of Arhat Hall and Bodhi Courtyard were also great cultivators at the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
Although it usually kept its mountains hidden and its waters unrevealed, rumors had always circulated among the common folk that while the Seven Great Powers appeared to stand shoulder to shoulder, if one truly had to determine a victor, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect could press down all the heroes and rank first among the seven sects.
Of course, they were only rumors, but as the saying went, no wind, no waves. Aside