Maitreya Buddha, standing beside Tathagata Buddha, also looked coldly at Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. What Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had done now truly outraged both man and god!
As a disciple of the Buddhist Sect, he had actually led soldiers to slaughter members of the Buddhist Sect. This was a violation of the Buddhist Sect's rules!
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva looked calmly at the two of them. "I, Ksitigarbha, am a member of the Buddhist Sect. It is not your place to expel me from the Buddhist Sect. Neither of you has the right!"
That was the truth. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Tathagata Buddha were of equal seniority. Although Tathagata Buddha was the Buddha Patriarch of the Buddhist Sect, he did not have the authority to expel someone like Ksitigarbha from it. Such a matter required discussion among the Buddhist Sect's higher-ups and also consultation with Dipankara Buddha.
It was not something Tathagata Buddha could decide with a single word.
As for being cast into Avici Hell, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva feared it even less.
What he had done was not wrong. Though he had killed members of the Buddhist Sect, he had also been disciplining and helping it.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva knew the current state of the Buddhist Sect very well. If these people were not taught a lesson and some of the Buddhist Sect's scum were not purged, the Buddhist Sect would only travel farther down the road to destruction, beyond saving.
"Tathagata, as the Buddha Patriarch of the Buddhist Sect, you should know the affairs of the Buddhist Sect on Spirit Mountain very well—better than I do. Do you truly not know what state the Buddhist Sect is in now?" Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva stared at Tathagata and asked.
Tathagata stood there without speaking. Naturally, he knew Spirit Mountain's situation.
"There are so many scum within Spirit Mountain now,