The female general was none other than Duan Xiaoyu of the Heavenly Blade Sect, who had once been close to Xu Taiping.
The young monk was none other than the Buddha Child Yelai, whose birth Xu Taiping had witnessed.
Duan Xiaoyu bit her lip and said:
"Yelai, I want to see Eldest Brother Taiping too, but the passage between the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm was severed long ago. Even if he wanted to descend to the Lower Realm, there would be nothing he could do."
Yelai shook his head and said:
"Xiaoyu, I trust my premonition. Uncle Taiping will come. He definitely will!"
Seeing how stubbornly Yelai refused to listen, Duan Xiaoyu grew a little angry and said:
"Yelai, it's one thing not to value your own life, but must you drag these hundreds of monks of your Vairocana Chan Temple into the grave with you?"
Yelai pressed his palms together without a word, merely continuing to chant Buddhist scriptures with the monks behind him, reinforcing the barrier overhead.
Duan Xiaoyu let out a long sigh and said:
"Yelai, the old abbot has already died in battle. Do you intend to let the Vairocana Chan Temple's lineage end here?"
Yelai said calmly:
"If that truly happens, then it too is fated."
Duan Xiaoyu stamped her foot hard and said:
"Your master was right. You really are a stubborn mule!"
Yelai said expressionlessly:
"Sister Xiaoyu, if you trust me, then spend one more day in hell with me."
He raised his head to look at Duan Xiaoyu.
"Just one day!"
Duan Xiaoyu frowned and asked:
"Then after that day, will you come with us?"
Yelai glanced at the Vairocana Temple monks around him, then sighed and said:
"I can let them go with you."
Duan Xiaoyu said incredulously:
"What