Chapter 1056: 1
Seeing the Quicksilver Needles seemingly intimidated, the woman's smile gained a touch of smugness. She no longer tried to search the wall for specific rules, instead speaking more earnestly about how she had come to understand Buddhist teachings through actual combat.
As the kitchen fire was lit, more and more people came in to work. The woman led the Quicksilver Needles back to the front courtyard to continue their conversation. Whenever someone cast hostile looks at Victoria and Zoe, the woman would immediately turn and call out to them in the local tongue.
The people would then look astonished, forced to hide their initial expressions of disgust.
After this happened several times, Victoria finally could not help asking, "What did you say to them just now? Why does it seem like everyone became much more polite to us as soon as you shouted at them?"
"They don't know who you are," the woman said. "So I told them not to be rude. These people are all Kashyapas, our precious guests."
"So Kashyapa... is a very exalted status?"
"Of course," the woman said with unquestionable certainty. "If you hadn't accumulated enough virtue in your past life, how could you possibly be reborn as a Kashyapa in this one? It's a blessed root that cannot be sought even if you beg for it. And you all came from lands of ignorance, unlike us, who at least have people to guide our cultivation—you being reborn as Kashyapas is even more extraordinary. How much suffering must you have endured..."
Hesta and the other two looked at the woman in confusion.
"But you don't need to worry, because becoming Kashyapas means you're already close to completion." The woman's gaze was filled with compassion. "There's only the final step left. The fact that