Chapter 859: Forcing Ancient Buddha Randeng to Abdicate / Chapter 860: Making Trouble for Great Immortal Zhenyuan ...

Even Jieyin and Zhunti, the two Western saints, had learned of it.

Thus, Maitreya Buddha, who had originally forced Dipankara Buddha to step down, would likely have no chance of claiming the supreme position of Western Buddha Ancestor by then.

Chapter 859: Forcing Dipankara Buddha to Step Down

Under these circumstances, Maitreya Buddha would rather pay a greater price than tell Jieyin and Zhunti, the two Western saints, about this matter.

Even Dipankara Buddha was kept in the dark by Maitreya Buddha, who sealed off the news and refused to let him learn of it.

Otherwise, just as Maitreya Buddha had forced Dipankara Buddha to step down back then, Dipankara Buddha could now use the same method against him and force Maitreya Buddha to step down.

"Buddha Ancestor, may this journey bring you great fortune!"

After Maitreya Buddha said this, could all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas present possibly refute him?

Of course they had no way to refute him. Thus, under such circumstances, they could only say a few auspicious words.

At the thought that this matter had escalated to such a point entirely because of Venerable Kashyapa's terrible idea,

Maitreya Buddha was filled with rage. Wasn't Venerable Kashyapa's proposal just a case of shooting himself in the foot?

If Wuzhuang Temple had run into trouble, Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi would have immediately returned from Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountains.

Then the incident of Sun Wukong and Fahai uprooting Longevity Mountain would never have happened. At most, it would only have involved a Ginseng Fruit Tree spirit that had gained sentience.

As long as Western Buddhism insisted that this matter had nothing to do with them,

given how shamelessly thick-skinned Western Buddhism was, even if Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi became furious, he would have no way to do anything to them.