After Guo Dong said this, the room in the Vegetable Garden remained quiet for a long time.
Back then, Pei Baifa had fallen victim to Heaven Near Person's scheming and lost to the Western Sea Sword God, suffering grievous damage. He had spent years in seclusion restoring his cultivation realm, but had still reached the point where his oil had run dry and his lamp was dying.
Tong Yan had long since worked out this reason and remained silent.
He Zhan suddenly asked, "What can I do?"
Tonglu and Su Ziye had parts in this scheme, and naturally its most important figure, Mister Pei, could not be absent, but He Zhan's name was nowhere in it.
Tong Yan had already contributed by laying out the scheme. Was he supposed to do nothing?
Guo Dong said, "You've spent half a year clearing out your bowels at the Precious Thoroughfare Zen Monastery. They should be clean now. Come with me to the Fruitful Accomplishment Temple."
Ordinarily, He Zhan would certainly have shouted that he did not want to become a monk, but this time he only looked quietly at Guo Dong without speaking.
Family was family, after all.
Tong Yan calculated what would happen to his friend next, smiled, and took his leave.
He left the Vegetable Garden where he had lived for so long and headed down the mountain along a path paved with stone slabs.
When he reached the edge of the village shrouded in thin mist, he looked back. The two large characters on the Precious Thoroughfare Zen Monastery's plaque were faintly visible.
He thought in silence that Mister Pei was seeking death. Even if the undertaking succeeded, how could he survive?
Changing the final outcome would require the other Righteous Path Sects to act together, but the Fruitful