Inside the Right Sound Dharma Temple.
Venerable Buddha Ru Nan sat quietly at the center of a dharma lotus, his eyes half closed, lightly holding the Nirvana Śarīra between his fingers.
After returning to the Great Thunderclap Temple to give all the instructions he needed to give, Ru Nan had brushed aside everyone's attempts to dissuade him, crossed the Pudu River himself, and taken up residence at the Right Sound Dharma Temple on the Western Ox-He Continent.
Lychee's report that the Buddhist Sect had sent two Tribulation Transcendence Realm Buddhas was inaccurate, because counting Ru Nan, who was stationed here, there were actually five Tribulation Transcendence Realm Buddhas on the Western Ox-He Continent.
Even with the Buddhist Sect's number of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, sending five to hold this place was already an enormous commitment.
But sometimes, they had no choice but to do so.
The Buddhist Sect's current state had now been laid out in the open: the two times they had been stopped before the Pudu River, and the Wish Power from the Eastern Sea that Chu Xingchen had not asked about, but everyone understood perfectly well.
Just because no one mentioned certain things did not mean no one cared.
The devastation suffered by the living beings of the Western Ox-He Continent last time was also real, and it had made Ru Nan understand that unless he went to see the Western Ox-He Continent himself, perhaps eighty percent of the information he received would already be outdated.
The Buddhist Sect could not afford any more upheaval now, and events on the Western Ox-He Continent could not be allowed to repeat the same mistakes.
By personally taking up residence here, he also made it clearer to all living beings.
The Buddhist Sect was still the Buddhist Sect they had originally