Proud and Unruly

"Everyone, Lin is not boasting or deliberately delaying matters. It's just that... reversing life and death, reassembling a dispersed Primordial Spirit—this truly means acting against Heaven. The process is unimaginably difficult, the cost enormous, and the required materials exceptionally rare. It is absolutely not something easily accomplished."

While he was still laying the groundwork, Buddha Tathagata, who was concealed in the shadows with a weakened aura yet had been watching the battle all along, was beginning to grow impatient.

He had seen through Lin Zhu's little scheme to extort them, and he had also seen Amitabha's eagerness to settle the matter at any cost. Under ordinary circumstances, he would certainly have stepped forward to question him and protect Western Heaven's interests.

But now... he glanced at Amitabha's Golden Body in the distance, which wore a compassionate expression yet was clearly prepared to "spend money to avert disaster." Then he felt the ache in his own heart from the previous battle and the loss of treasures such as the Measuring Sky Ruler. All at once, he felt that making this teacher of his—who usually stood above all others and always regarded himself as the true body's incarnation—bleed a little did not seem so bad? In any case, it was not Buddha Tathagata himself who would be paying!

Watching Lin Zhu sharpen his blade for the "fat sheep," while the "fat sheep" practically looked as though it were saying, "Come slaughter me," Tathagata inexplicably felt a trace of dark satisfaction rise within him.

Thus, Tathagata's majestic voice rang out, carrying a faint and nearly imperceptible indifference. He actually followed Lin Zhu's lead and gave him a firmer foothold.

"Since Benefactor Lin possesses such a method, there is hope. As for the necessary items, Buddha Ancestor Amitabha is present and will naturally make