The many Buddhas turned their gazes toward him.
Hua Wu True Buddha met their gazes frankly.
Ru Nan neither agreed nor allowed the others to continue voicing their opinions.
But this response alone made it clear that Ru Nan's decision was leaning toward Hua Wu True Buddha's position.
As the Buddhist Sect's current Buddha of the Present, once Ru Nan made up his mind, the Western Ox-He Continent might truly be abandoned altogether.
At the very least, the Karma Buddhas would stop intervening in the Western Ox-He Continent because of it.
Before their ideals, letting go truly required no more than a single thought.
The Dust-Matters Buddhas, however, would not agree so readily.
The Western Ox-He Continent did not have to serve the Buddhist Sect's interests, but it had to serve theirs.
They had joined the Buddhist Sect and taken their seats upon the so-called golden lotuses for profit in the first place. Now, abandoning the Western Ox-He Continent, with all its tangled interests, was like gouging out their bones and stripping away their flesh.
After a moment of silence, a Buddha finally spoke.
"If the Three Great Sects were merely going to save disaster victims, then I, too, would agree with Hua Wu True Buddha."
To Ru Nan Buddha's right, Tian Ying True Buddha said sorrowfully:
"Hua Wu True Buddha has not entered the mortal world for a long time, so it is inevitable that some things have escaped his sight. It is true that the Three Great Sects have saved disaster victims along their way, but they have also torn down no small number of temples and driven away many monks. Even the abbot of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple was slain by a single stroke of Yan Yun's sword."
"Saving the people is a great good. Yet