What was Huijue's background?
After asking that question, Uesugi Tetsu clearly saw Ririko's movement freeze as she picked up a piece of meat with her chopsticks.
Her pupils narrowed slightly as she suddenly recalled that Huijue had also praised her state of mind as extraordinary. She had been constantly maintaining the circulation of the Jade Heart Art and Spirit Accumulation Technique.
To outsiders, she should have been no different from an ordinary JK.
Yet Huijue had identified the Sword Heart glowing like the sun in her at first sight.
And she... had failed to notice anything unusual about Huijue until Uesugi Tetsu reminded her, realizing it only afterward.
Did that not mean that his cultivation of the state of mind was absolutely more advanced than hers?
Ririko picked up the meat and put it into her mouth, then happily exhaled as she thought, The heroes of this world truly are as numerous as carp crossing a river.
"The chief disciple of the abbot of Hongwanji Temple. Some people have already started calling him the Dharma Lord of Hongwanji Temple."
"But that's only natural. Huijue had already possessed strength close to Ghost God level before the Tide arrived. It's only fitting that he became the leading figure of the new generation of Buddhism."
Nanjō Emi shrugged. "But apparently, he had always been meditating and cultivating in the temple. He only came down from the mountain two days before the Tide arrived."
Uesugi Tetsu let out an "Oh."
No wonder Huijue was wearing that Ghost Rider-like outfit. So he really had no understanding of modern society at all.
Yet after eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddhist scriptures on the mountain for so many years, he had accepted such an eccentric outfit without hesitation. As expected of a master's state of mind.
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