Though that was true enough, when the two of them spoke those words in perfect unison, the atmosphere between them quickly became rather strange.
Yao Wan could not help shooting Xiao Yan a glare.
Pu Ku naturally saw all of this.
"We've only been married for a little over a year. Please forgive the embarrassment, Master Pu Ku."
"Not at all."
Pu Ku smiled and shook his head. There were countless sufferings in the world. The Buddha possessed freedom, yet sentient beings did not. And as for that so-called freedom, sentient beings need not seek it either.
People like the two before him naturally had no need to concern themselves with matters such as freedom or troubles.
Pu Ku did not envy this. As an ascetic like himself, he had long been fated to have no ties to romantic love in this life, nor did he find that regrettable.
"Come to think of it, Master Pu Ku, what exactly brought you to Lesser Spirit Mountain? That demon monk from Joyful Temple?"
Xiao Yan could naturally tell that Pu Ku had merely sighed instinctively after Yao Wan's remark and meant nothing else by it. Realizing that he had unconsciously overthought matters, he gave a dry cough to ease his embarrassment before speaking.
"No. I merely happened to pass through this place."
Pu Ku smiled. "I simply felt that perhaps it would be good to come here, so I came to take a look around the West Heaven Continent."
"Who would have thought that this place also seemed to have once been part of the Sumeru Realm?"
"Master Pu Ku, do you not seek the inheritance of the former Buddha Sect?"
Yao Wan asked with some curiosity. The demon monk's reaction was still vivid in her mind. He had come to the