"Amitabha, Patron, why create more bloodshed? Opening the Longshan Altar would require at least a hundred million lives as sacrifices. They are all innocent." Zhu Xie pressed his palms together, his face full of compassion.
Jiang You took a long look at the monk standing beside Xu Rizhao. Ever since deciphering the stone tablet murals, the monk had remained silent and taciturn. Of course, he had never been much of a talker to begin with.
But if he was a man of few words, he should not have said something so inappropriate at a time like this.
"Monk, are you blind?"
She stared coldly at Zhu Xie. "To hell with your Amitabha. They're the ones trying to kill me right now. I've stayed obediently in Longshan and Tingfeng City from beginning to end. They're the ones who wanted to kill me!
"Open your damn eyes and look at these so-called innocents. They casually slapped one person with the crime of plotting against all living beings, then ganged up to attack her!
"You don't think they're doing evil, but instead think that I, the one resisting them, am committing sins?
"What, in the logic of your Buddhist sect, is the victim supposed to just stand there and let herself be persecuted?"
Zhu Xie said, "If you wish to know the fruit of your next life, look at what you do in this one; if you wish to know the cause of this life, look at what you did in your previous one."
"What do you mean? Are you saying I committed countless evils in my past life, which is why I ended up with this result in my current one?"
Jiang You bared her teeth in a smile, brazen and wild.
Her shrill laughter stabbed painfully at Zhu Xie's eardrums.
"Why