"Ha ha, indeed, what you say is most true, my dear minister!" The Immortal Emperor clapped his hands and laughed heartily, showing none of his earlier majesty. "Just now, I was still worried about the war between our Confucian cultivators and the Buddhist Sect. But now, all is well. Great Sun Tathagata must know the tale of the snipe and clam fighting while the fisherman reaps the profit. I refuse to believe he would risk ignoring the great enemy from the Sacred Light Realm arriving on the Cangxian Continent, all for the sake of stubbornly waging war against me."
"Indeed!" Xie Xin said with a smile. "Great Sun Tathagata must be even more capable than Your Majesty of sensing the aura of the Other Shore. The Buddhist Sect is the great enemy of the Sacred Light Realm, not the Confucian cultivators of our Cangxian Continent! At this moment, he must also be pondering how to ease the conflict between us."
"This matter is of the utmost importance. Xie Xin, I appoint you as my fully empowered Immortal Envoy to go to Thunder Sound Temple..." The Immortal Emperor smiled. "Discuss the war with Great Sun Tathagata! So long as Great Sun Tathagata agrees to a truce, why should I fear the pressure of the Hundred Schools?"
"In this subject's view, it would be better to invite Thunder Sound Temple's envoy to our Immortal Palace!" Xie Xin shook his head. "After all, the Sacred Light Realm is the Buddhist Sect's great enemy, and the Buddhist Sect's invasion of our Changsheng Town leaves them in the wrong."
"My dear minister! Great Sun Tathagata is now sitting firmly upon the fishing platform, while I am sitting atop a boiling pot. The situations we face are completely different. We both know this perfectly well, so