"My surname is Nalan, and my given name is Sheng!"
Looking at Abbot Xuanci's kindly face, Nalan Sheng said with undisguised disgust, "I came here tonight to demand justice for the infants Ye Erniang murdered!"
"..."
At those words, Abbot Xuanci's face instantly turned deathly pale.
Although Abbot Xuanci had long since cut off contact with Ye Erniang, he had naturally heard of the Four Great Evils.
Abbot Xuanci also knew that Ye Erniang enjoyed torturing infants to death, but he felt he owed her far too much, so he could only pretend he knew nothing.
Whenever he woke from a dream at midnight, Abbot Xuanci would see the infants Ye Erniang had killed, and could only ease his guilt by reciting the Rebirth Mantra through the night.
Whenever he woke from dreams at midnight, Abbot Xuanci would dream of the infants Ye Erniang had killed. Only by chanting the Rebirth Mantra through the night could he ease the guilt in his heart.
"Xuanci, your affair with Ye Erniang wasn't such a terrible thing in itself. At worst, you could have simply returned to secular life and married her."
Nalan Sheng snorted coldly. "But you just couldn't let go of your position as Shaolin's abbot, so you abandoned her and your child.
"Ye Erniang murdered so many infants over the years. Her crimes certainly deserve ten thousand deaths, and she deserves to descend into the eighteen levels of hell.
"But you, the root of all this evil, are no better. Did you think chanting the Rebirth Mantra a few times whenever you had nothing else to do could wash away your sins?"
"Amitabha!"
Coming to his senses, Abbot Xuanci's eyes flashed coldly as he said, "This humble monk knows his sins are grave, and after death, he ought to descend