They used high-sounding words to deceive the ordinary beings at the very bottom, making them constantly supply the cultivators they worshipped with power of faith.
All the cultivators had to provide was the most basic conditions for survival, and they could gain strength worth more than a lifetime of bitter cultivation.
Only a fool would turn down a deal like that!
Karmic consequences were not worth mentioning in the face of increasing one's strength, let alone when Hui Zhi had personally declared that he alone would bear every karmic consequence!
Who would not covet a deal that guaranteed profit without risk?
Hesitating for even a second would be an insult to one's own cultivation!
It was clearly a means of enslaving living beings, yet it had received the tacit approval of everyone in Buddhism, precisely because this secret art was practically tailor-made for them!
It was also because Hui Zhi had made his grand vow to bear every karmic consequence that he had been able to succeed Kongming as abbot while only in the Body Integration Realm, becoming the youngest inheritor of the Jialan Kasaya in the history of Buddhism!
When the Buddha Kingdoms across the Western Lands joined together, and everyone throughout the Western Lands believed in Buddhism, how could anyone deny that Buddhism was flourishing?
This secret art clearly violated the harmony of heaven, and for the living beings of the Mortal World, it was practically like being penned up and raised. But for ordinary beings, was living out their lives free of illness and disaster not already something to celebrate?
This could also be considered Buddhism's compensation to its believers, as well as the best explanation of the words in the Buddhist Sutra: those who believe in me shall prosper forever.
But Ouyang knew perfectly well that