"This Lotus-Eyed Radiance doesn't seem to have anything special about him..."
Fang Qing watched Lianyan Mingduzi on the platform. After only a few exchanges, Invincible had torn his arguments to shreds, leaving him floundering. Disappointment flickered in Fang Qing's eyes.
"He has no gift for debate, no quick wit, and no knack for thinking on his feet..."
"He doesn't seem to have much courage to smash the cauldrons and sink the boats, either..."
"Then how did he come into contact with the Lotus Temple's Position Seal?"
"Could the Position Seal truly have a spirit? Could it have called out to him on its own? If so, I'll probably have to get that lotus pedestal and study it before I can learn anything..."
He now suspected something was wrong with the Lotus Temple's Position Seal. It might contain the remnant soul of a Dharma King, or even a True Spirit!
They had drawn Lianyan Mingduzi into refining it so they could "be reborn in another body"!
"Lotus-Eyed Radiance... You haven't even mastered the Three Treatises and Five Sutras. How can you debate me?"
On the high platform, Invincible had already secured his victory. Yet he stamped his foot in anger, as though he had suffered a terrible insult.
Cold sweat covered Lianyan Mingduzi's head. As if waking from a nightmare, he looked around at the disappointed crowd and the monks harboring their own designs...
"No... I can't die here!"
He fell to his knees. Half his face had gone numb, and one hand had already raised a ritual blade to his neck...
But he still bore the rank of Duzi. The other half of his face twisted in resistance, while the lotus brand on his forehead flashed with seven-colored light. He was still fighting!
"Lotus-Eyed Radiance... If you still consider yourself