Hearing this, Zhu Chen and Ouyang Xuan were completely reassured.
Even now, they still believed that Xu Taiping's increases in cultivation and strength were all connected to the treasure he carried.
Now that they had heard his treasure would stop working outside the Thousand Buddha Kingdom, they naturally no longer needed to worry.
Boom!
Just then, the white feathers that had enveloped them exploded and scattered.
"I didn't expect this brat to keep his word so well. Half an incense stick meant half an incense stick."
Ouyang Xuan muttered as he watched the Feather Prison dissipate around them.
"This brat is still too green, and his heart isn't ruthless enough. He'll never amount to anything. What a waste of the fortuitous opportunity he found in the Thousand Buddha Kingdom."
Zhu Chen sneered.
"Let's go, everyone. We must hurry back to Heavenly Sound Temple and retrieve that jade disc."
Yun Zhong looked rather anxious.
Zhu Chen and Ouyang Xuan both nodded.
Boom!
But just as the three used the little true qi they had painstakingly accumulated to fly off on the wind, the phantom of an enormous Buddha Hand descended from the sky.
Then a voice, exceedingly benevolent yet filled with authority, rang out beside their ears. "You have offended the Buddha. You must remain here to atone for your transgression. Only once your merit is complete may you leave."
The three scrambled up from the ground, their hearts filled with terror.
"H-how can we complete our merit?"
Elder Yun Zhong asked, his voice trembling slightly.
"Rebuild the Reclining Buddha Temple."
The voice replied.
"Th-this Reclining Buddha Temple stretches for hundreds of li! How many years and months will it take to rebuild it?"
Yun Zhong turned to survey the ruins of the Buddhist Temple around the Buddha statue, then cried