"Goddess scattering flowers, all living beings singing praises... I wonder which Buddha Lord this is?"
Hai Yuan gazed at the temple glowing with seven-colored divine light in the western sky. His expression was complicated, his thoughts drifting.
As the Dragon Elephant Palace's sect master and an eighth-stage cultivator, Hai Yuan felt a little uneasy.
After taking over as sect master from Hui Kong, he had carried out sweeping reforms according to his teacher Gao Xian's wishes.
All the Buddha Lords and Bodhisattvas the sect had once worshipped had been replaced with Taiji Divine Lord!
That was right. His teacher Gao Xian had changed his name to Taiji Divine Lord two hundred years ago. Divine Lord of Army-Breaking, as his avatar, had also come to enjoy the faith and worship of people across the Nine Provinces.
The other major sects in the Nine Provinces had been fine. Only the Dragon Elephant Palace had been a Buddhist sect, and now it had undergone a complete transformation from top to bottom.
The sect's supreme arts, Great Might Heavenly Dragon and Divine Elephant Suppresses Hell, had both originated with the Dragon Elephant Bright King. That title, too, had been changed to Dragon Elephant Divine Lord, one of Taiji Divine Lord's incarnations.
Such a tremendous change had been unacceptable to many of the Dragon Elephant Palace's senior members.
Many high-ranking cultivators had watched Gao Xian grow up, step by step. They knew his true background. Fearing Gao Xian was one thing, but they would not let him pull the wool over their eyes like this.
This was not merely a matter of changing their faith; it also concerned a legacy passed down for tens of thousands of years. Such a change was tantamount to severing the roots of their Dragon Elephant Sect.
Masters including Hui