Tongtian Learns of "Buddha Is the Dao"

While the Three Xiaos were reading Covering the Heavens with One Hand in Lin Tian's courtyard.

Elsewhere.

The Interception Sect's cultivation grounds.

Jin'ao Island.

Inside Biyou Palace.

Numerous formidable formations stood.

They emanated daunting laws of power.

Countless Dao inscriptions and talismans flowed all around.

Pale cyan Qi shimmered and surged without end.

Profound Dao laws swept forth from within.

Filling Biyou Palace with an air of mystery.

At that moment, Tongtian sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion.

The power of laws flickered around him, and the power of a Sage surged.

He seemed to be releasing his spiritual sense.

His tightly furrowed brows made the atmosphere in Biyou Palace unbearably oppressive.

Duobao, meanwhile, knelt on one knee before Tongtian.

His expression was somewhat fearful, and his face was pale.

He had only just returned to the Interception Sect.

When Tongtian summoned him.

He had initially thought it concerned matters related to the Interception Sect.

Instead, his master told him what had happened to the Seven Attendant Immortals.

This left Duobao, the Interception Sect's head disciple, utterly astonished!

He had been at the eastern border and truly had not known such a thing had happened in the Interception Sect recently!

Still less had he expected.

That the Seven Attendant Immortals, who had once been so close to their master, would meet such a miserable end!

Master had shown them virtually no mercy!

What made Duobao even more shocked and suspicious was this!

The Seven Attendant Immortals had also been corrupted by the Western Wondrous Dharma?!

And the very reason his master had punished them was the Western Wondrous Dharma!

Now Master Tongtian had summoned him to examine him and see whether he, too, had been influenced by the Western Wondrous Dharma!

Once he understood this.

Duobao felt somewhat uneasy.

When he had been traveling, he really had grown close to the Western Wondrous Dharma.

Master wouldn't discover it, would he?

Duobao thought fearfully, then recalled the book he had obtained in Lin Tian's courtyard.

His face grew a shade paler...

Luckily, I met Senior Lin Tian earlier and gave him the prayer beads.

Otherwise, returning to the Interception Sect today might have sent Master into a rage too!

After all, that prayer bead was a little too conspicuous. It was rather like a token of the Western Teachings.

And although Buddha Is the Dao, which I exchanged for with Senior Lin Tian, also carries Buddhist intent, at least it's easier to explain...

I just don't know yet whether Master will listen.

Just as these thoughts crossed his mind.

Tongtian, standing not far in front of him.

Suddenly opened his eyes.

In those profound, immensely majestic eyes of a Sage.

A furious look flashed!!

Then.

Tongtian's angry shout rang through Biyou Palace!!

"Duobao, I trusted you completely! Why did you grow close to the Western Teachings?!"

It's over!

Master found out after all!

What should I do now?!

Hearing Tongtian's question.

Duobao's heart clenched, and fear instantly seized his primordial spirit.

Feeling the powerful pressure Tongtian released.

Duobao could not resist it at all.

His knees buckled.

With a thud.

Duobao fell to his knees, his body trembling slightly.

Faced with Tongtian's question.

For a moment, Duobao did not know what to say.

Seeing Duobao's fearful expression.

Tongtian grew even angrier.

Veins bulged on his forehead, and the power of a Sage's laws surged ceaselessly from his body!

If Biyou Palace had not been a Sage's cultivation ground.

It might have been destroyed long ago by the power Tongtian released.

When he had seen the record in the Great Dao Diary about "Duobao betraying him."

Tongtian had been unwilling to believe what it said.

After all, Duobao was his first disciple and the Interception Sect's head disciple.

Resources were normally directed toward him as well.

He found it impossible to accept that Duobao would betray him and have ties to the West!

So.

After Duobao returned to the Interception Sect.

Tongtian promptly summoned him and examined his primordial spirit.

Only to discover that, to some extent, his primordial spirit bore a trace of the Western Teachings.

Disappointed as Tongtian was, he had also received his answer at once.

Everything recorded in the Great Dao Diary had been verified!

Duobao's primordial spirit already possessed some characteristics of Western methods.

It had clearly been tainted by them!

Once he understood this.

Tongtian could not suppress the fury in his heart!

He casually waved a hand toward him.

A dense surge of the power of a Sage's laws burst from his hand.

In an instant.

From within Duobao's sleeve.

A golden radiance floated out.

Under Duobao's astonished gaze.

It landed directly in Tongtian's hand!

"This Dharma treasure was given to you by those two bald donkeys from the West, wasn't it?"

"The Buddhist intent upon it is astonishing. It is clearly no ordinary object."

"I expressly forbade Interception Sect disciples from having any connection to the Western Teachings."

"Yet you even brought an object of Western methods in here."

"Do you have no regard for your master or the Interception Sect?!"

The more Tongtian spoke.

The less able he was to contain his anger.

When a Sage was enraged, heaven and earth themselves would shatter.

Even Biyou Palace seemed unable to withstand Tongtian's fury.

Clearly.

Duobao's actions.

Were more than Tongtian could accept!

He had already disliked the Two Sages of the West.

And now.

Duobao was provoking him like this.

How could he not be angry?

When Tongtian's furious voice fell silent.

Duobao, kneeling on the ground, was fearful, but his expression was complicated.

He had thought that after giving Senior Lin Tian the prayer beads and exchanging them for this book.

He could bring it safely back to the Interception Sect.

But to his surprise, his master still would not accept it.

Yet.

Wasn't this book a summary of a path of cultivation?

All things could be the Dao.

By rights, Master shouldn't blame him...

Perhaps, after seeing the title, Master would forgive him?

The thought flashed through his mind.

Duobao steeled himself and spoke to Tongtian in a strained voice.

"Master, please calm your anger!"

"Please look at the title of this book."

"Although I was influenced by the Western Wondrous Dharma, this book seems not only able to remove the intent of the Wondrous Dharma from my heart, but also to correct my Dao and guide me along a Dao suited to me!"

Hearing Duobao's words.

Tongtian's angry voice immediately followed.

"Enough of this nonsense!"

"No matter what use Western things have, they are unsuitable for Eastern cultivators..."

"No matter how remarkable this book is, it... Hmm?!"

"Buddha Is the Dao?!"

Tongtian, who had been furious, had not finished speaking.

When the word "Dao" on the book's cover caught the corner of his eye.

He froze at once.

In an instant.

Some of the anger on Tongtian's face strangely vanished.

Buddha Is the Dao?

What a profound summation!

What book is this?

Tongtian could not help feeling startled and instinctively opened Buddha Is the Dao to its first page.

He immediately saw what was written on it.

Immediately afterward.

Tongtian's eyes widened, and a look of astonishment flashed in them!