At Ouyang's curious question, even Hui Zhi, as calm and detached as a True Buddha, could not help raising an eyebrow.
A question this intensely private was simply impossible to answer.
Hui Zhi ignored Ouyang and instead turned to Dongxu Zi, who stood there in silence. "Does the Sect Master of Azure Cloud still intend to kill me?"
Hearing Hui Zhi's question, Dongxu Zi raised his head and stared at him, asking hoarsely, "How far have you taken this already?"
Hui Zhi chuckled, pressed his palms together, and said softly, "The Eight Hundred Arhats, twenty-four Bodhisattvas, and three Buddha Venerables all approve of this humble monk's ideas. The Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms have long since been established in their entirety. After Buddhism has been suppressed by the Daoist Sect for tens of thousands of years, this is the opportunity it has finally welcomed. Naturally, every heart yearns for it!"
The Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms meant that Buddhism had established a full three thousand Buddhist cities like White Elephant City in the Western Lands!
At a hundred thousand living beings per city, the beings in the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms numbered in the hundreds of millions!
The number of times Hui Zhi could resurrect also numbered in the hundreds of millions!
This was what Hui Zhi had relied on when he clamored earlier that Dongxu Zi and Ouyang could not kill him.
But that claim was not wrong. If this really was the case, Dongxu Zi and Ouyang indeed could not kill the Hui Zhi before them.
It was not that they could not kill him, but that doing so was meaningless.
The speed at which they killed Hui Zhi probably could not even keep up with the speed at which the Three Thousand Buddha Kingdoms recruited believers.
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