The wine instantly sobered him up.
This scene was far too horrifying!
Li Qingshan stared dumbfoundedly at the red-lipped, white-toothed young monk on the platform and could not help rubbing his eyes. "Did I really drink too much... Why am I seeing Brother Gu?"
Waves surged through Li Qingshan's heart. Though this monk had no hair and wore white robes, his appearance was unmistakably identical to Brother Gu.
Yet unlike Brother Gu's domineering indifference, this monk possessed an elegant bearing and a gentle expression.
He truly resembled an enlightened monk.
Xiao An was somewhat curious as well and followed Li Qingshan's gaze.
There, atop the Buddha Platform, sat a young monk dressed in moon-white robes.
The monk was tall and slender, red-lipped and white-toothed. He sat as still as a mountain, yet carried an aura of serenity and clarity that put others at ease.
Like the bright moon in the heavens, lofty and untainted; like the blazing sun, dazzling enough that people could not help but focus their eyes upon him.
"Qingshan, do you know this... master?"
After hesitating for a moment, Xiao An still asked.
She cultivated the White Bone Beauty Path and was naturally an enemy of Buddhism, yet when she saw this young monk, she felt an uncontrollable urge to draw close to him.
"...Yes... Ah... I know him. I know him."
Li Qingshan was still rather dazed. He wanted to call out, yet found it hard to believe.
After all, the last time he had personally seen Brother Gu act against the Buddhist sect, beating Tathagata of Many Treasures until he vomited blood and fled, while the Five Great Wisdom Kings had been left with unknown fates.
How had he become a monk now?
"This is the only great Dharma master within the Tang Empire acknowledged