Zhen Yong was a planted agent sent by King Kong Temple to Shaolin Temple.
His purpose was to steal Shaolin Temple's martial arts.
As one of the Four Buddhist Temples, King Kong Temple should theoretically have been an ally of Shaolin Temple. Even if fellow trades were rivals, they would at least maintain surface-level harmony.
In reality, however, King Kong Temple had risen to prominence through another form of Buddha's Palm. Since their Zen cultivation was lacking, they had always coveted Shaolin Temple's third form of Buddha's Palm.
Their petty schemes had never ceased, and whenever monks from the two temples encountered one another while traveling down the mountain, they were usually far from friendly.
Of course, King Kong Temple acted this way not only because it was one of the Four Buddhist Temples and possessed considerable foundations, having even produced Dharma Body experts in the past.
The crucial reason was that Shaolin Temple had always truly upheld compassion, acting relatively uprightly and rigidly.
Thus, even with Kong Wen, the divine monk ranked third on the Heaven Ranking, King Kong Temple had still dispatched a planted agent to steal Shaolin's martial arts.
After all, quite a few of the Seventy-Two Ultimate Skills had originally been developed by Shaolin's patriarchs after attaining the Dharma Body and drawing insights from Buddha's Palm.
They could simply deny everything afterward. Success meant immense profit, while failure would merely earn them a few questions from Shaolin, with no real losses.
A gentleman could be deceived by propriety.
As long as there was no irrefutable evidence, Shaolin could do nothing to King Kong Temple.
That was why Zhen Yong had been so concerned with Zhen Hui's cultivation progress.
Nianhua Finger was the foremost of Shaolin's Seventy-Two Arts. When cultivated to its peak, one could directly transition