With their suppression, it would not be so easy for Zhenyuanzi to self-destruct.
Having restrained Tathagata, who had wanted to self-destruct, Tathagata sneered. "Zhenyuanzi, you want to self-destruct before so many quasi-saints of our Buddhist Sect?"
"You are simply delusional!"
With so many quasi-saints present, if they still allowed Zhenyuanzi to self-destruct, they would truly be humiliated beyond all measure.
Zhenyuanzi was being suppressed. Even if he wanted to self-destruct, he could not. He was now filled with endless despair.
As one of the most peak figures in the Three Realms, when had he ever suffered such humiliation? It was a humiliation beyond words.
Am I really going to be suppressed like this in humiliation?
Zhenyuanzi thought to himself.
He was deeply unwilling.
No one answered Zhenyuanzi.
Tathagata said, "Fellow Daoist Zhenyuanzi, sleep forever!"
"Remember this."
"If there is a next life, remember not to make an enemy of the Buddhist Sect. Accept the toast when it is offered—you cannot afford the punishment wine."
As he spoke.
Tathagata signaled for them to suppress Zhenyuanzi.
"No..."
Zhenyuanzi cried out unwillingly.
Roar...
At that moment, a dragon's roar resounded, shaking heaven and earth. A Five-Clawed Golden Dragon appeared, coiling through the sky.
With a single dragon roar, it forced everyone back.
It rescued the bound Zhenyuanzi.
The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon took human form.
The newcomer was none other than Ancestral Dragon.
The ancestor of the Dragon Clan.
Tathagata narrowed his eyes slightly as he stared at Ancestral Dragon and said in a deep voice, "Ancestral Dragon, what do you mean by this? Are you planning to interfere in the affairs of our Buddhist Sect?"
Ancestral Dragon clasped his hands behind his back and said domineeringly, "Your Buddhist Sect gangs up on the weak with numbers and has no shame. I