The impact caused by the Heavenly Court was enormous, yet it ended at an exceedingly strange pace.
It had come quickly and vanished even faster.
Perhaps not even the Great Emperor of the North Pole had considered, on an instinctive level, whether ordinary people could walk across thousands of kilometers of Wasteland to arrive beneath this so-called Heavenly Court and bathe in immortal light.
Naturally, Spirit Mountain remained completely unaware of this at the moment.
Forced by the Heavenly Court's preemptive move, the people of Spirit Mountain instantly felt a sense of urgency and hastily convened a meeting.
However...
Long-Eared Wang Ye and Maitreya Wang Ye knew nothing about this meeting.
It was not because their identities as infiltrators had been discovered.
It was because...
They looked down on Long-Eared. What qualifications did a bootlicking dog that only knew how to flatter others have to attend a meeting?
They could not afford to provoke Maitreya. He was a ruthless figure, and they still did not know whether the Buddha would hold him accountable for his crimes, so it was unwise to offend him.
Thus, the two of them sat at home, completely clueless.
Only after the meeting had already begun did everyone seem to reluctantly remember that two people appeared to be missing.
In the end, an Arhat, with a trace of helplessness, accepted his bad luck and knocked on Long-Eared's and Maitreya's doors to notify them of the meeting. The moment he finished, he promptly left without lingering.
Talk to Long-Eared for too long, and he might lose face.
Talk to Maitreya for too long, and he might be implicated in his punishment.
Wang Ye was somewhat speechless at this. He increasingly felt that the identities he had chosen were fucking ridiculous.
And so, Maitreya and Long-Eared arrived one