"Vine Dao Venerable, please take pity on the hardships we monks endure and grant us a chance to survive!"
"Our temples can no longer afford to keep the cooking pots going! Many of our young monks are still growing. What will they do without enough food?"
"Boohoo! I just received word that a monk in his nineties at our Dharma Flower Temple actually starved to death last night!"
The monks all wailed about their own misfortunes, though in truth, they merely wanted to secure some benefits for themselves.
Only Faming looked genuinely anxious.
He could neither sit nor stand at ease!
Faming had dealt with Lin Tian far too many times. He knew this would accomplish little, but as the foremost eminent monk of Great Tang, he had to step forward at a time like this.
He glanced back at the hundreds of eminent monks behind him.
Most had eaten themselves so round that their bellies looked six months pregnant.
If they truly enraged Lin Tian and a fight broke out, these fellows would probably be the first to die.
Little did they know that Jixia Academy was sealed off from the outside world by a formation. Even if they shouted their throats raw, those inside would not hear a thing.
Lin Tian had already given his orders. Since these members of the Buddhist Sect had abandoned all shame, they could be left to cry and howl.
But if they made any further untoward moves, they were to be struck down without mercy!
Lin Tian did not mind using the blood of these hundreds of so-called "eminent monks" to intimidate the petty villains lurking in the shadows!
For three full days and nights, these so-called eminent monks kept wailing about the Buddhist Sect's many hardships.
Yet throughout that time, quite