Facing Xiao Fan's question, Master Jueyuan fell silent for a moment, then let out a long sigh.
"This poor monk traveled from the Western Regions to the Central Plains in order to spread the Buddhist teachings and save the masses of the Central Plains... Elder Qin had the discerning eye to recognize talent and agreed to let this poor monk build Buddhist temples in the capital. That is an act of merit—how could this poor monk be dissatisfied?"
There was meaning beneath those words... He meant that he had not sincerely wished to aid tyranny, but had been forced by the deal to work for the Qin Family...
Within Great Liang, there were two most widely followed faiths. One was Great Liang's state religion, the Sacred Fire Sect; the other was the Daoist tradition, with its long history.
As for Buddhism, it had almost no foothold in the Central Plains. There was not even a single respectable Buddhist temple.
The Great Liang royal family had always been especially hostile toward the Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom's Buddhists, strictly forbidding them from preaching in the Central Plains.
Only recently, with mounting pressure along Great Liang's northern border and the need for the Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom to keep the Great Wilderness Demon Kingdom in check, had restrictions on Western Regions Buddhists entering the Central Plains to preach been loosened.
Qin Hui was among those who advocated making a deal with the Western Regions Buddhists, joining forces against the Great Wasteland Demon Race while building Buddhist temples throughout Great Liang to support the spread of Buddhism.
Xiao Fan immediately understood. *With cultivation so unfathomably profound, why would this big-eared monk willingly become the lackey of that immoral Qin Family...? So he bore the burden of Buddhism's mission to spread its teachings in the