Three years later.
Compared to before, the Slanted Tower World seemed to have changed little—at least, not much had changed for the common people at the bottom.
If there had to be a change, it was that the former practice of sending captured wizards to the stake for punishment had been abolished. The ascetics now had to travel across vast distances to deliver these wizards to the Bitter Sea.
Other than that, the world gradually returned to peace. The massacre that had wiped out an entire city several years ago seemed to have slowly faded from people's memories.
No!
Some still remembered.
"Subdue demons and suppress evil—why does the Kulian Sacred Monk insist on reforming these wizards? They are wizards, not humans. They have no humanity! Slaughter is their instinct, evil is their nature, and cruelty is their moral code! They are destroyers of the world, tramples of peace!"
The Guangzheng Dharma Form eminent monk took righteousness and brightness as his creed.
His azure eyes were enormous by ordinary standards, round as bronze bells. His earlobes hung down to his shoulders, and his broad gauze robe could not conceal his thick, powerful frame. Broad-backed and bear-waisted, he was utterly unlike the gaunt ascetics, seeming born with an imposing natural endowment.
Because of his great virtue and high prestige, he had established the Radiant Great Slanted Tower and served as its abbot. He was also one of the few enlightened eminent monks able to face the Sharira Sacred Monk Kulian directly. In an ordinary small world among the Earth Vein World clusters, an abbot of such strength would be the lord of the world, ruling over all within it. Yet in the Slanted Tower World, he was merely a highly respected figure. In terms of actual authority, his power extended only