Lin Tian, on the other hand, traveled far and wide. Although he had not greatly affected the Buddhist Sect, he always left Guanyin Bodhisattva with a faint sense of unease.
The two Saints were trapped in the Purple Heaven Palace, and Buddha Tathagata presided over the vast Buddhist Sect. Yet relations between Guanyin Bodhisattva and Buddha Tathagata were not as peaceful as they appeared.
They had clashed in secret more than once, and neither wanted to make life easy for the other.
Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, and Kṣitigarbha Buddha had all originally belonged to the Chan Sect. Thus, even after joining the Buddhist Sect, they remained closest to one another.
Buddha Tathagata, meanwhile, was close to certain disciples of Jiejiao, such as Immortal Wuyun and Immortal Bi Lu. After entering the Buddhist Sect, they too had been granted the title of Buddha.
As for Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, Buddha Tathagata did not like him.
Precisely because the Buddhist Sect was riddled with factions, there were many things Guanyin Bodhisattva was unwilling to tell Buddha Tathagata.
They secretly competed with one another, but Lin Tian paid no attention whatsoever to any of it.
Now that the Journey to the West Calamity had begun, the mighty figures of every faction had turned their attention to Tang Sanzang as he journeyed west. At this moment, Lin Tian quietly began his own plan.
Lin Tian had spent more than ten years developing Jiangzhou. By now, the population of the entire Wu Kingdom fief had more than doubled.
Nearly twenty years was just enough time for a generation to grow up.
This doubling in population was merely the most basic growth. After Lin Tian deployed one measure after another, the people of the Human Race were prosperous and the country wealthy, with everyone free