Within the Heavenly Court, everything was resplendent and majestic, immortal clouds suffusing the air.
Yet the atmosphere inside Tongming Palace was somewhat tense.
Tathagata was just about to explain.
"Then there is no need for us to talk."
With a sweep of his great sleeve, the Jade Emperor gave Tathagata no chance to explain and said, "See the guest out!"
The Demon Realm was the Heavenly Court's dire hidden threat.
That was true, but everyone here had lived for who knew how many tens of thousands of years. Was there any need to keep words tucked away and hidden?
Even if Tathagata had a silver tongue that could make lotus flowers bloom, to say they had taken the initiative to offer scriptures with no ulterior motive, and to try to convince him with just the four words "teaching without discrimination," was still rather difficult.
Besides, he had discovered that this Tathagata was playing routines with him.
Originally, for the eastward transmission of Buddhist teachings, it should have been Tathagata asking him for help. But this time, Tathagata had done well indeed—first using the Demon Realm as his argument, then saying that transmitting Buddhist teachings to the Southern Continent was for the good of the Heavenly Court and the mortal world.
He made it sound as if the Heavenly Court had truly gotten the better end of the bargain, and in the end, he had even started discussing conditions with him.
Go to hell!
The Jade Emperor looked at Tathagata. He had not dealt much with Tathagata's previous life, Daoist Duobao, but it was not as if they did not know each other.
In the past, during the Heavenly Court's Flat Peach Banquet, Daoist Duobao, the eldest senior brother of the Jie Sect, had several times attended the feast in Tongtian's