Western Extremity Province.

It was now part of the territory of the Western Extremity Kingdom. ### After Buddha Jing Heng slew his way into Lanling City, the court sealed off every major route connecting Western Extremity Province to the outside world. ### Once Pudu Temple announced the establishment of the Western Extremity Kingdom, the blockade became even stricter. ### They did not merely seal off the major roads. The court also established countless checkpoints along the border to ensure that no supplies could be smuggled into the Western Extremity Kingdom. ### Of course, if an expert forced their way through by sheer martial strength, these checkpoints certainly could not stop them. ### But experts were few, and they could not bring in many supplies. ### Pudu Temple had been passed down for a thousand years and had long since achieved self-sufficiency. ### But the self-sufficiency of a sect and the self-sufficiency of a nation were two entirely different concepts. ### If the blockade continued, the so-called Western Extremity Kingdom of the Buddhists would become nothing more than a laughingstock! ### Pudu Mountain. ### Clang—clang—clang— ### The morning bell drifted leisurely from the temple. As the first light broke through, it scattered across the upturned eaves of the ancient temple like gold leaf. ### Across the square before the main hall, rows of figures stood solemnly. ### The monks wore dark monk robes that stirred steadily in the morning breeze, baring their chests and right arms. ### Their bronze-colored muscles were etched with golden Sanskrit characters, as though carved by cleaver and axe. ### Each man gripped a heavy octagonal mixed-iron staff, as steady as a mountain. ### They stood in silent stillness. Their eyes held the rocklike calm of solid stone, as well as the searing heat of molten lava! ### These men