In the abbot's room, all the troublemakers Lu Yang had captured earlier were being held. Master Duanchen was questioning them one by one about what had happened, so he could decide how to deal with them.
When he heard the news Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou had sent, he sprang to his feet, eyes wide.
"What!"
Why had so many things gone wrong during this Buddha-Worship Festival?
Blessed be the World-Honored One. Thank goodness he'd had the foresight to invite Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou. Otherwise, the chaos at this year's festival would have been even worse.
"Hurry, tell me what's happening!" Master Duanchen couldn't spare a thought for interrogating the lecherous monks. They were locked up in here and weren't going anywhere.
"Master, you'll know if you extend your divine sense."
Master Duanchen released his divine sense. Though its range couldn't compare to Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou's, it was enough to see that something was wrong with the people.
Everyone wore a blank expression, exactly like the people in the Three-Eyed Ghost Monk's memories who had taken the Emotion-Forgetting Pills.
"From what we can tell, the problem may be in the canal water. People from the Unfeeling Sect dumped a large amount of Emotion-Forgetting Pills into it."
Lu Yang shared his theory. Master Duanchen's expression darkened with every word.
He'd let his guard down. He hadn't expected the canal water to be the problem. It really was a silent and efficient way to spread the Emotion-Forgetting poison throughout the whole city of Kaihuang.
Master Duanchen realized how serious the situation was.
"What do the two of you think we should do?"
"The most urgent thing is to keep the people calm. On our way here, we saw plenty of heartless acts: people abandoning their wives and children, or