"Amitabha. Thank you for your help, Senior Brothers. The Killing-Stopping Mantra has finally been laid."
In a dense wood on the outskirts of Mad Wolf Valley in the Cloud Emergence Kingdom.
His face deathly pale, Hongci pressed his palms together and looked at the other four abbots before him, relief written all over his face.
Abbot Guangze and the others, who had been standing guard nearby throughout, exchanged glances, all looking just as relieved.
"Amitabha. With your Killing-Stopping Mantra, Senior Brother Hongci, the honor of our Cloud Emergence Chan School First Vein has been preserved."
Guangze, the abbot of Prajna Temple, pressed his palms together and let out a long breath.
They had originally thought that only their Five Great Buddhist Temples would be coming to rescue Duan Xiaoyu, but they had not expected the Heavenly Dharma Protector to invite Cloud-Hidden Temple from the Western Liang Kingdom as well.
And Cloud-Hidden Temple had not merely sent an eminent monk of the diamond realm; it had dispatched all its Scripture Guardians at once, despite normally treasuring them beyond measure.
After the two sides met up just now, Cloud-Hidden Temple's Scripture Guardians had intended to attack the stronghold directly. However, the Five Great Buddhist Temples of the Cloud Emergence Kingdom had stopped them on the grounds that the situation was unclear and that they might anger the people inside Mad Wolf Stronghold, causing them to hurt Miss Xiaoyu.
Protecting Miss Xiaoyu had indeed been one reason for doing so.
But their main reason was still to let their Five Great Buddhist Temples share in the merit of rescuing her.
Of course, in their view, as long as Hongci successfully cast the Killing-Stopping Mantra, their approach would certainly be safer than having those eighteen brawny men from Cloud-Hidden Temple batter their way into