Putuo Temple.
The Buddha seated high above fixed his gaze on Prajna and said, "Courage is not recklessness. Huang Miao and Chen Xiao were there that day too. If all we get is an order to kill without worrying about burying the dead, that is easy enough to say. I fear the Karma Buddhas have no intention of acting, do they?"
"The Venerable Buddha left only those words, which he could simply refuse to acknowledge. If things change in the future, will we have acted rightly or wrongly?"
"If anything, such an order hardly sounds as though it came from the Venerable Buddha."
As his words fell, the Buddhas turned scrutinizing gazes on Prajna.
Since ancient times, when had anyone undertaking a major operation acted so furtively? Rather than joining together in collusion, they were acting like thieves.
How was this a plot to kill someone? It was plainly a search for suckers to take the blame.
The first essential of handling a major undertaking for someone was having their backing, not simply going ahead on the strength of a few instructions.
Although the Buddhist Sect's situation remained unsettled, Ru Nan was at least still maintaining his ties with the Mundane Buddhas.
The situation was still favorable, and their standing was stable, at least in name. Doing something like this would harm others without necessarily benefiting themselves, and might even bring a reckoning from the Three Sects.
If they won, everyone would be happy. But what if they lost?
None of those present were hotheaded youngsters, nor were the Buddhas the sort to charge off to kill someone over a few taunts.
If anything, they were exceptionally skilled at goading others into doing just that.
They were all thousand-year-old monsters.
Under the present circumstances, only if Ru Nan personally spoke