Yue Xiaofei's voice rang out, impassioned and resolute!
Like a heavy hammer, it struck hard at the heart of everyone present!
The square instantly fell deathly silent.
The devotees who had been brimming with righteous indignation lowered their heads, shame and reflection crossing their faces.
Indeed.
What exactly did they believe in?
The Buddha's compassion? Or vanity built on piles of money?
On the Dharma Platform, Abbot Yuan Zhen's expression had turned utterly grim.
He knew that if he let this father and son keep talking...
The reputation and faith his Great Thunderclap Monastery had built over a thousand years would collapse completely today!
"Silence!"
He let out a furious, flustered roar!
"You two heretics! Utter nonsense! You are misleading the people!"
"Guards!"
"Where are the warrior monks?!"
"Seize these two fanatics who blaspheme against the Buddha and defile our Buddhist Order!"
"Beat them out through the monastery gates!!"
At his command!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
More than a hundred warrior monks wielding long staves rushed out from every corner of the monastery!
Each radiated a fierce aura, their eyes vicious as they surrounded Yue Changlong and Yue Xiaofei!
A battle was about to erupt!
Yet at this moment of mounting tension...
Yue Changlong merely cast an indifferent glance at the warrior monks eyeing him menacingly.
Then he slowly lifted his foot.
He took a step toward the enormous Golden Buddha Statue before him.
"If I were to bend my knees today and bow to this effigy of clay and wood..."
"Could it bear the honor?!"
"Were the Buddha himself here, even he would have to bow to me!"
The instant his words fell...
BOOM!!!
An invisible, terrifying aura that seemed capable of suppressing all the heavens and worlds surged skyward from Yue Changlong's body!
It had neither color nor form,