The Buddha hall.
The Clarified Butter Lamp flickered.
"Yuan Liansheng... he no longer bothers to hide his wolfish ambition."
Empty Peacock Tara stepped forward. "I say... we contact Invincible at once. With the temple's formations, we can suppress him outright!"
"Unwise!"
Medicine King Qing Dumu said, "He is eloquent, after all, and has rendered great service time and again... If we seize him rashly, our reputations will be ruined..."
"Of two evils, choose the lesser... Besides, what good reputation do we have left?"
Moonlight White Tara waved Empty Peacock and Medicine King Qing away, then sat on an apricot-yellow cushion and silently recited the Lord of the Charnel Forest's Earth Scripture!
She recited it several times, but still could not quell her anger. "Steel Strength Dudzi... he truly deserves a beating!"
If that Duzi were still here, then even with Sangji missing for so long, neither seen alive nor found dead, they would have had someone to rally around—an anchor to steady the seas!
But that accursed Steel Strength had likewise vanished with the White Bone Dharma King, neither seen alive nor found dead...
She sighed. Duzis and Dumus had long since ceased to need food or sleep.
She merely sat quietly, reciting scripture as she entered meditation.
Within the Buddha hall, the statue of the Lord of the Charnel Forest's Twin-Bodied Form stood motionless in a dancing pose, its gaze lowered, its expression compassionate...
Whoosh!
A cold wind blew from nowhere. Moonlight White Tara's eyes snapped open.
At some point, her surroundings had become a world of ice and snow. Pillars of frost stood like a forest, with skeletons sealed inside them.
Snow blanketed the earth, its reflected glare dazzling. Not far away, Maiden Earth qi churned and gathered into a supreme Buddha-Land.
"This... looks like the Eight Cold