Other races.
Perhaps some of the Demon Tribe's top Great Sages had already charged into the Buddhist Order's worlds.
After all, the Demon Tribe's entire top fighting force had just gathered in this stretch of the Chaos Boundary.
A Sage of their Western Buddhist Sect had been killed.
And he, the only Sage of the Western Teachings currently able to act, was now pinned down, unable to move as a whole mob beat him up!
Those sneaky bastards would never let this opportunity slip!
The Buddhist Order had never been a benevolent force to begin with. Violence was its middle name, given the way it operated.
For all these years, it had relied on the protection of the Sages above.
And it had certainly stolen its fair share of things.
As disciples of Sages, some members of the Buddhist Order were decent, of course. After all, its slogan was right there.
All hearts turned toward Buddha.
There were always some who sought their true selves and cultivated the Buddha within their hearts.
But they were few and far between.
After all, "when the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams follow suit" described the Buddhist Order of today perfectly.
Who knew how many worlds the Buddhist Order had already turned into Great Thousand Worlds that were free in name alone?
Even the starlight in their skies was shrouded by Buddhist light.
In the worlds of Buddha.
There was no such thing as sustainable development.
All they wanted were fanatics who would never change.
A nation where every living being became a fanatical believer!
Generation after generation of believers supplied them with abundant faith power for Buddhism's Divine Path.
Great Sages?
Great gods! They wanted to imitate the true Buddhas of antiquity and turn the mortal realm into their Buddha Realms!