The moment Dongxu Zi finished speaking, the entire Great Hero Hall fell so silent that a pin dropping could have been heard.
When Ouyang had spoken of splitting Buddhism earlier, everyone had taken it as a joke, but coming from Dongxu Zi, those words carried an entirely different meaning.
As the strongest person in the world and the foremost figure of the Daoist Sect, Dongxu Zi could, to a certain extent, speak for the entire Daoist Sect.
Permission to travel east, a split in Buddhism.
One piece of good news and one piece of bad news.
Either was enough to leave these monks, who spent their days eating vegetarian meals and chanting Buddhist scriptures, feeling that their brains could not keep up.
Still standing where he was, Ouyang looked at Dongxu Zi in surprise. Though he had no idea where the old rascal had gotten his information, this was precisely what Ouyang had originally intended.
Buddhism could not rebuild without first breaking apart. After surviving this calamity, how would it break free of the west and integrate into the entire Cultivation World?
Ouyang had immediately thought of the brilliant idea of Transforming the Hu into Buddhas, and had even found someone to carry it on.
Now that Dongxu Zi had personally proposed splitting Buddhism, Ouyang felt rather strange.
Though the old rascal generally never bothered to think, he had understood the purpose of Ouyang's visit from just a few scattered remarks, even finding the crucial point in Ouyang's seemingly joking words with needle-sharp precision!
If Buddhism wanted to break apart and rebuild, it had to split, becoming completely independent of western Buddhism and turning into a sect suited to the Cultivation World's own soil!
Having lived so long and weathered every kind of storm, Dongxu Zi had sniffed out the