Then he opened his eyes and looked at Tang Sanzang before him, smiling faintly.
"Good, good. I knew I was right about you. You really are this selfish."
"What makes you say that?" Tang Sanzang asked slowly, rolling a prayer bead between his fingers.
"Back when we were near Chang'an City, you gave up the lives of two attendants. That was when I realized how selfish you were. Fresh lives stood right in front of you, yet you watched them get killed without even blinking, still wearing that air of boundless Buddhist Dharma and righteous virtue. Ask yourself: does the Buddha in your heart also regard human life as something worthless?
"Later, Guanyin Bodhisattva gave you a hat and said it could control Sun Wukong. Without a second thought, you gave it to him. You even lied and said you'd bought it in Chang'an City. Aren't you a believer in Buddhism? You must have memorized the saying 'A monk never tells lies' by heart. So why don't you follow it? Even after I exposed you, you still kept up the lie to the very end.
"You didn't even know whether that thing could endanger Sun Wukong's life. Yet, on Guanyin Bodhisattva's word alone, you resolutely put the hat on his head. Ask yourself: when your own life was truly in danger, why didn't your merciful Guanyin Bodhisattva rush to your side? Hm? Who saved you? Sun Wukong—the very person you betrayed, who still resolutely did everything in his power to save you!"
The more Ye Chen spoke, the angrier he became. It wasn't that he was trying to stand up for Sun Wukong. He simply thought this monk had no humanity. He went around saying "Amitabha" all day, but when he himself was in danger, where was the Buddha who