Rumble—!!!
Deep rumbles rolled across the horizon.
Enormous fissures split the sky.
As a dazzling golden dragon appeared, overwhelming heavenly might poured down. Everyone beside the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool instinctively covered their eyes.
"Wait... what's going on now?"
Chen Changeng stood rooted to the spot. He had not revealed a trace of his aura. He had simply been waiting for the Buddhist Sect to make its move so he could report back to the Heavenly Court.
He had never expected such a sudden upheaval.
At the sight of the magnificent dragon in the sky, his face darkened.
"Dragon-Subduing Arhat? Why would he make a move now? Has he discovered me?"
But soon enough,
two more immense manifestations appeared in the sky.
Rolling waves rapidly claimed a swath of the heavens.
At a glance, it looked as though a Celestial River had been poured across the sky.
River-Crossing Arhat appeared out of thin air, standing on a single reed.
"Dragon-Subduing! Have you lost your mind?!"
When the Bodhisattva had instructed the two of them to summon Dragon-Subduing to preside over this Gratitude Assembly, the idea had been that another powerhouse of the Supreme Capital realm would mean another safeguard.
They had thought that even if his thinking was rather rigid, invoking the Bodhisattva's name would keep him from doing anything rash, however angry he became.
They had never imagined Dragon-Subduing would prove this stubborn!
To attack a fellow disciple in full view of everyone...
Even if he had been in the right, he would end up in the wrong!
Besides, he had no justification to begin with... and if this disrupted the refinement of the Treasure Lotus, was he not afraid the Bodhisattva would hold him accountable afterward?!
River-Crossing looked miserable and was about to try persuading him again.
But Cloth