"Yes, yes, yes. This humble king will explain it all to the holy monk at once."
King of Miefa answered again and again, then told Xuanzang the whole karma of the matter.
It turned out that in his previous life, King of Miefa had borne an irreconcilable grudge against Buddhist temples.
In his previous life, he had also been an accomplished monk cultivating in a temple, but because Mortal Heart had stirred in him, and after returning to secular life he had taken a wife and had children, the Buddhist temple made him a typical example of wavering faith.
King of Miefa's wife and child from his previous life had died at the hands of a Buddhist temple.
After reincarnating, he became the prince of Miefa, and from childhood he had seen how the temples in his country swallowed up land and preyed on the common people.
New hatred and old resentment, piled together, ignited the blazing fury of King of Miefa, and that was how the order to exterminate Buddhism came to be.
After King of Miefa ascended the throne, the first order he issued was to violently eradicate Buddhism!
He made a great vow to completely flatten every Buddhist temple on the land beneath his feet!
"So they were evil Buddhists."
Xuanzang understood.
In this matter, the fault did indeed lie with the temples of Miefa.
But King of Miefa was also somewhat in the wrong.
He should not have beaten them all to death with one rod.
Xuanzang had always firmly believed that in this world there were no cultivators who were absolutely good or absolutely evil. The consciousness of living beings was complex, autonomous, uncontrollable; good and evil could appear for all kinds of reasons.
Even though Xuanzang himself was a monk, he would not shield