"Zhenyuan the Great, what exactly is going on?" Nie Caizhu was also among the crowd. She had thought Shen Luo's escape attempt had failed and had already prepared to face punishment alongside him, but this turn of events caught even her off guard.
"Earlier, when the Heart-Questioning Mirror tested his heart, I noticed disruptive fluctuations on its surface. I feared Shen Luo possessed some secret Divine Soul technique, so when I struck him unconscious, I examined his Divine Soul. To my surprise, I found that his Divine Soul bore protection bestowed by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. That left me wondering—could someone trusted by both the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva truly be a traitor?" Zhen Yuanzi swept his gaze over the crowd and said.
"Just because of that?" The Buddhist School arhat was clearly not convinced by such reasoning.
"Of course not. But under those circumstances, no matter what I said, none of you would have believed me. So I proposed that Zhenyuan the Great and I put on an act together to lure him into exposing himself, thereby clearing my name," Shen Luo took over.
Everyone turned to look at Zhen Yuanzi, hoping to hear the answer from him.
Zhenyuan the Great said nothing more. He merely tapped lightly between his brows, then made a pulling motion as though drawing something out. A streak of golden light immediately flew from his fingertip.
The golden light then spread through the air, images flickering within it. From Zhen Yuanzi's perspective, it faithfully displayed the earlier conversation between Shen Luo and Huang Mei in the valley.
After seeing it, everyone finally understood that the traitor who had been hiding among them all this time was not Shen Luo, but Huang Mei.
"Amitabha. Huang Mei, Maitreya placed such trust in you that he passed