"Ming Yue, this wasn't your doing, was it?"
Monk Lantuo, who had been looking up into the void and searching everywhere for spatial traces, abruptly withdrew his gaze and turned toward the disciple sitting cross-legged on the ground behind him.
A trace of hesitation appeared in his eyes.
"No!" Ming Yue kept his head lowered and said flatly, "He is neither kin nor friend to me. Why would I help him?"
"Besides, if your disciple possessed such heaven-reaching means, hehehe..." A cold laugh escaped Ming Yue's lips. "Why would I have become your disciple back then?"
"You are the most dishonest monk I have ever met in my life. You would never tell the truth!" Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo stared coldly at Ming Yue. "Why don't you try swearing a Heavenly Dao Oath?"
Ming Yue snorted coldly and slowly raised his lowered head, fixing his eyes on Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo. "Back then, even with four Buddhist seals inflicted upon me, I never swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to you!"
"Does Master think I would swear one now?"
Bang...
The next instant, a golden Buddhist seal flew from Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo's hand and slammed viciously into Ming Yue.
Ming Yue's face paled, and he slumped back onto the ground.
Yet when the Great Heart-Devouring Seal, which struck terror into He Pingsheng at its very mention, landed on Ming Yue, it seemed as light as a goose feather.
His face merely grew somewhat pale, without any visible sign of pain.
He even stared at Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo and smiled.
"Alas..." Buddha Emperor Lan Tuo sighed deeply. "Ming Yue... with a temperament like yours, you are sure to achieve great things someday. If only you were truly my disciple!"
"If this continues, the higher your cultivation rises, the more my