"Looks like this is the White Lotus Sect's true reserve of strength. All lying low, waiting to move."
Lian Youming chewed a stalk of grass, taking note of the group without letting anything show on his face.
It was not dark yet, and after traveling through the night, Gu Xuantong was in no hurry to set out. Instead, he let them rest and recover for a while.
The others were either meditating, chanting scriptures, or forming hand seals as rapidly as if they were playing cat's cradle, clearly cultivating mental abilities. Others, such as Gu Chan and Gu Feiyan, were also calmly sitting in meditation.
In short, they were a bunch of unorthodox cultists playing at supernatural mysteries.
Gu Feiyan in particular-Lian Youming did not believe an ambitious woman like her could obediently accept a position beneath someone else. Besides, she had grown up overseas, after all. Surely she would not be brainwashed by some Three Calamities End Times nonsense like these idiots.
The so-called Three Calamities End Times was the White Lotus Sect's doctrine of the end of the world.
Its three calamities were the Azure Yang Calamity, the Red Sun Tribulation, and the White Yang Calamity.
The Azure Yang Calamity referred to the calamity of the past, the Dragon-Han Flood Calamity, which revered Burning Lamp Gu Fo as its spiritual leader. Its disaster was a great flood that washed over the human world. The Red Sun Tribulation was the final calamity of the present age, revering Shakyamuni as its spiritual leader. It comprised eighteen disasters: water and fire, warfare, plague, famine, mountains collapsing and the earth splitting apart, all descending together. Along with these came the corruption of human hearts and demons running rampant, making it the calamity of the age of declining Dharma. The White Yang Calamity