The Buddhist Order Resumes Its Dharma Debates, Xu Qingxiao's Worries, and the Development of War Machines

Western Continent.

Tianzhu Temple.

Mahayana Treasure Hall.

Four divine monks sat quietly on meditation cushions.

They faced the abbot of Tianzhu Temple.

The Four Divine Monks of Tianzhu Temple.

Huizheng, Huijue, Huiming, and Huixin.

All were Second Rank experts of the Buddhist Order's Awakening Realm.

The abbot before them, meanwhile, was a First Rank expert of the Buddhist Order's Right Awakening Realm.

The Buddhist Order valued right awakening, which meant opening the wisdom aperture and attaining the supreme wisdom that perceived all truths.

But First-Rank Right Awakening had not yet reached that level of supreme wisdom that perceived all truths.

"May I ask, Abbot?"

"Where did the Karmic Fire on the Half-Saint in the Haoran Kingdom today come from?"

A voice rang out.

It was Divine Monk Huixin's voice.

He was the youngest among them and appeared to be around thirty.

Among the Four Divine Monks, Divine Monk Huixin had the greatest renown, not because of his age or cultivation, but because he truly was hailed as someone on the verge of right awakening.

His face was refined, his features almost delicate, and his skin resembled white jade. Sitting on his meditation cushion, he gazed at Abbot Jialan with exceptionally clear eyes.

"Amitabha."

"The matter of the Karmic Fire was not the work of our Tianzhu Temple."

Jialan understood what he was asking. He answered, telling him that this matter had nothing to do with Tianzhu Temple.

"Then did our Buddhist Order take part?"

Divine Monk Huixin continued questioning him.

His voice was calm, yet it made the other three divine monks frown slightly.

The Karmic Fire on the Half-Saint certainly had something to do with the Buddhist Order, but none of them wanted to say so. This involved the Buddhist Order's struggles.

To claim they were wholly great and