The Shaolin Temple and the Zaohua Taoist School had always regarded each other with hostility. After the Dao-Buddhist War, the two sects had even become sworn enemies.
Yet now, the Zaohua Taoist School had obtained precise intelligence on the Shaolin Temple. One could imagine just how deeply the Shaolin Temple had been infiltrated.
Li Boyang half-closed his eyes. After a long while, he suddenly sighed. "Over the years, many people have called Xuan Ku cowardly, saying he only knew how to endure and endure and endure, without a shred of the bearing expected of the Shaolin Temple's abbot or a True Martial Realm expert.
"But he endured until he forcibly brought the Shaolin Temple back to prominence. How many people in the Jianghu possess such an unyielding will?"
Zhang Boduan could not help falling silent. As the acting headmaster of the Zaohua Taoist School, Zhang Boduan had dealt with the Shaolin Temple often enough. As one of the victors of the Dao-Buddhist War, he had in truth looked down somewhat on the Shaolin Temple.
Yet the Shaolin Temple had endured all this time, preserving its strength to the fullest extent and allowing itself to rise again today. Zhang Boduan had to admit that Xuan Ku and Xuan Ming were both superior to them.
In truth, the Zaohua Taoist School had once had a chance to destroy the Shaolin Temple. But first Xuan Tan and then Xuan Ku had risen in succession. Xuan Tan in particular—though he had not yet reached the Divine Bridge Realm at the time, even Li Boyang had not been confident of killing him. With Xuan Ku added to the equation, forcing the issue would only have led to mutual destruction for the Zaohua Taoist School.
Later, internal strife within the Shaolin Temple led to Xuan Tan