Master Kong Wen pressed his palms together. "Thank you, benefactor, for explaining the cause of Fuyun's death. Yet Fuyun has already suffered Heavenly Punishment. Though his evildoing left calamity in its wake, with his departure, dust should return to dust and earth to earth. One must know that good and evil have no inherent cause; once one matter is settled, a hundred matters should be settled. Amitabha!"
"Amitabha! Amitabha..." Lin Su also raised his palms perfunctorily in imitation, reciting the Buddha's name twice in the most half-hearted manner. "With Fuyun dead, no matter how unreasonable this junior may be, I could not possibly hold others accountable for his sins. However, there is another matter! After Fuyun died, Liu Tianyin of the Tianming Daoist Sect divined Great Cang's destiny anew and informed me that fate had changed! The Great Cang Cataclysm would no longer occur! That was why we stopped pursuing Ji Shang. Yet the Great Cang Cataclysm happened all the same! Hundreds of millions of Great Cang's people had their souls sent to the underworld in this calamity! Abbot Master, why do you think that was?"
Master Kong Wen's eyes were filled with bewilderment. "Benefactor means to say that even the judgment of destiny cannot be trusted?"
"No! The judgment of destiny can be trusted!" Lin Su said. "Liu Tianyin's misjudgment that day was not fundamentally her fault. The reason lay with your Thousand Buddha Temple. Someone used Buddhist or demonic arts to mislead her!"
Yu Xiaoyao and Ding Xin stiffened from head to toe. This was something that had completely escaped their predictions.
No one knew of this matter.
They knew even less.
But now Lin Su had spoken of it. The moment he did, cold sweat covered the backs of both women. Could the Thousand Buddha Temple truly