Rumble—!!!
Deep rumbles rolled across the horizon.
Enormous fissures split the sky.
As a dazzling golden dragon appeared, overwhelming heavenly might poured down. Everyone beside the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool instinctively covered their eyes.
"What... what's going on now?"
Chen Changgeng stood rooted to the spot. He had not revealed a trace of his aura, intending to wait for the Buddhist Gate to act so he could report back to the Heavenly Court.
He had never expected this sudden upheaval.
At the sight of the resplendent dragon overhead, his expression darkened at once.
"The Dragon Subduing Arhat? Why act now? Has he discovered me?"
But soon...
Two more immense auras manifested in the sky.
Surging waves swiftly claimed a swath of the heavens.
At a glance, they resembled a Heavenly River pouring across the sky.
The River Crossing Arhat appeared out of thin air, standing atop a single reed.
"Dragon Subduing! Have you gone mad?!"
When the Bodhisattva had instructed the two of them to summon Dragon Subduing to oversee this Repayment Gathering, the thought had been that one more Supreme Capital expert meant one more safeguard.
They had assumed that, however stubborn he was, invoking the Bodhisattva's name would keep him from doing anything, even if it angered him.
They had never imagined Dragon Subduing could be this obstinate!
Attacking his own sectmates before everyone's eyes...
Even if he had been in the right, that would put him in the wrong!
Besides, he had little justification to begin with... and if this disrupted the refinement of the Precious Lotus, was he not afraid the Bodhisattva would hold him accountable afterward?!
His face tightened with distress. He was about to try persuading him again.
But the Cloth Bag Arhat beside him wore an icy expression. He snorted. "Stop trying. Since he