"Benefactor, you are clinging to appearances."
Xia Ping smiled faintly. "The Buddha once said, 'Form is emptiness, emptiness is form; being is nonbeing, nonbeing is being.' Is there really such a great difference between having and not having? Everything in this world is merely an illusion."
His face was filled with compassion, like that of an enlightened eminent monk.
The corners of everyone's mouths twitched. They could not quite understand what Xia Ping was talking about.
"Illusion my ass! Speak human!"
At those words, the bird-person soldier's face turned black as charcoal. It practically flew into a rage, roaring, "Do you have a Dragon Wood Secret Realm talisman on you or not? Are you asking for a beating?!"
It hated shameless bald donkeys like this most of all, always spouting nonsense no one else could understand, acting as if they were so cultured while making everyone else seem ignorant.
"Fine. Simply put, I do indeed have a Dragon Wood Secret Realm talisman on me," Xia Ping admitted honestly.
The bird-person soldier looked at Xia Ping suspiciously. "Really? Don't you dare lie to me."
"A monk does not speak falsehoods."
Xia Ping took out the Dragon Wood Secret Realm talisman and waved it before the bird-person soldier.
The eyes of those around them lit up. They could also sense the profound aura contained within the talisman, and its faint, inscrutable connection to Dragon Wood Planet, which resonated with heaven and earth.
Quite a few people looked at Xia Ping with intense envy. Why was this damned bald donkey so lucky, able to obtain a Dragon Wood Secret Realm talisman when they could not?
Others revealed greedy, vicious looks, wishing they could snatch the talisman straight from Xia Ping's hands.
However, wary of the soldiers around the city gate, they did not