At that moment, the Three Pure Ones were also watching the Earth Immortal Realm.
Their divine senses intertwined, taking in everything in the Earth Immortal Realm, as though they were looking down on a chessboard whose outcome had long since been decided.
"Hahaha! Let's see how Jieyin and Zhunti deal with this!" Yuanshi's face brimmed with excitement, his eyes gleaming with smug satisfaction.
Tongtian smiled and nodded as well. "Exactly! Even if Jieyin and Zhunti discover that we orchestrated everything, it's already too late. If they dare kill Shakyamuni now, Buddhism's karmic fortune in the Earth Immortal Realm will collapse outright. All they can do now is watch, like a mute swallowing bitter coptis root-suffering bitterness they cannot voice."
Laozi, however, was not nearly as excited as the other two.
He kept feeling that something would go wrong.
But things had reached a point where no one could forcibly intervene. All he could do was calm himself and wait to see what happened.
Laozi's gaze remained fixed on that golden figure from beginning to end, his brows faintly furrowed, as though he already sensed something.
But at this point, everything could only be left to Shakyamuni's own choice.
Jieyin and Zhunti both wore exceedingly grim expressions.
"Senior brother, what are we to do now?" Zhunti looked anxiously at Jieyin.
Zhunti had never imagined that Buddhism would face the danger of splitting apart.
Still less had he imagined that the seeds of this disaster might have been planted many years ago.
Jieyin's expression was equally solemn.
His thoughts reached much further than Zhunti's.
He stood with his hands behind his back, his brows tightly knitted, carefully reviewing everything that had happened along the way over and over in his mind.
"Junior brother, don't you find this whole affair suspicious?
Shakyamuni's path