Zhang Yuan thought this with a clear conscience, ready to leave the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda alone and head elsewhere.
Although he had failed to take the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue and the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda as well, obtaining two unrefined strands of the Five Skandhas and Six Qi, Jia Wood and Bing Fire, was already a fine haul.
At least to him, Jia Wood and Bing Fire were worth far more than the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue and the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda. A person could not be too greedy; sometimes, contentment was the key to happiness.
Of course, the most important thing was that he could not draw the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue into his Dao Domain. This meant it had an owner, and one of very high status at that-possibly a Great Cultivator from the Shared-Sorrow Lotus Realm.
Since he could not take the Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue, he probably could not take the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda either. Staying would be nothing but wasted effort. He might as well leave early and seek other opportunities within the Buddha Kingdom.
With that thought, Zhang Yuan turned and strode away. Yet before he had even left the street, the ground suddenly shook violently, and the Eighty-One-Turn Pure-Name Pagoda behind him rose into the air.
Zhang Yuan was close enough to hear the commotion, naturally, but he did not turn around. He kept walking, showing no intention whatsoever of stopping to investigate.
"Wait, big brother! This Bodhisattva is too powerful! Your little brother really can't handle it!"
Qin Tianyi's call reached his ears.
Hearing the call of his old friend of five million years, Zhang Yuan finally could not resist turning to look.
He would never have known if he had not looked.
The once human-sized Sin-Absolving Bodhisattva Statue had grown thousands of zhang tall, nearly