Xu Taiping, however, could tell that the voice likely came from Venerable Jiaye, rather than the Ancient Buddha Kasyapa these abbots had in mind.
The two seemed to be one and the same, but the difference was actually enormous.
Venerable Jiaye was merely a strand of Ancient Buddha Kasyapa's divine sense. After hundreds of thousands of years apart from Ancient Buddha Kasyapa, he had long since become an independent existence.
At the same time, his power was not even one ten-thousandth of the true Ancient Buddha Kasyapa's.
So his promises were best taken with a grain of salt; it was hard to count on them.
"Know also that the man standing before you is an incarnation of the Heavenly Dharma Protector, the Evil-Delivering Asura. He now walks the world on my behalf as Xu Taiping, a disciple of the True Martial Heaven Azure Profound Sect. To see him is to see me."
At that moment, the supremely majestic voice rang out again.
"We shall faithfully obey Ancient Buddha Kasyapa's edict!"
At these words, the abbots kowtowed in unison.
Xu Taiping's lips twitched a few times when he heard this, and he thought:
Well, well, Venerable Jiaye. You go on every day about how monks never speak falsehoods, yet now you lie without so much as blinking.
At this thought, inspiration suddenly struck Xu Taiping, and he tried sending Venerable Jiaye a voice transmission through his divine sense:
"Venerable Jiaye, what act are you putting on this time?"
Xu Taiping had originally only intended to test the waters, but to his surprise, Venerable Jiaye actually answered, "I have made a fool of myself before you, Benefactor Taiping. The monks of Youyun Heaven have been removed from Ancient Buddha Kasyapa's teachings for many years. Fire Cloud Temple, once the foremost Buddhist temple