Chapter 946: Chapter 4: Heaven’s Mandated Heroes, Heavenly Strategy!
The foreign monk seemed to have never encountered someone so disrespectful.
For a moment, his brain seemed somewhat frozen, and those dressed in Western style clothing around him showed expressions of disbelief, as if they couldn’t imagine there was someone here daring to openly defy a master of the Buddhist Sect.
The monk’s face turned red, and he said, “You, you!!!”
The foreign monk reprimanded him angrily, as if whipping these Western people, saying, “Taking offerings from Buddha, do you know what price you must pay? How much suffering and sin you must endure!”
The young man still had the mind to banter a bit, saying, “Buddha?”
“As of now, the world is full of suffering.”
“I’m also very poor.”
“Let these funds of Buddha save me.”
“Save me from the sea of poverty and suffering.”
The foreign monk said, “My Buddha saves all living beings…”
The young man smiled calmly, “I am all living beings.”
Batuer was shaken. Somehow, those four words carried a kind of indescribable courage and valor, not something an ordinary person could say. He looked up at that young man with a big fake beard patched on.
Are all young itinerant merchants from the Central Plains this bold?
No, is he really an itinerant merchant?!
Batuer started to have some doubts.
The foreign monk was witnessing such shamelessness for the first time, and could only say,
“Absurd!”
“You are not all living beings!”
Li Guanyi said, “You are not Buddha either.”
The foreign monk grew impatient: “My Buddha saves all living beings; these offerings are contributions to Buddha, which will turn into merit in the next life. Do you not understand such logic?”
Li Guanyi suddenly understood: “Money is merit, then I understand.”
“My Buddha saves all living beings, but not poor ghosts?”
Li Guanyi’s mentor, Wang Tong, could debate with all schools of thought single-handedly, but here his disciple refuted this foreign monk with just a few words, making him flushed and eager to retrieve the money from the boy’s hands. But Li Guanyi’s grip was strong.
He used the same strength he would to steal lamp oil from Buddha’s altar, yet couldn’t pry open the hand.
Who’s ever taken money from Buddha’s doorstep? From ancient to modern times, only Buddhas take money from all living beings. Where is the reverse logic in that? He clung tight to Li Guanyi’s hand, shouting:
“Aren’t you afraid of retribution in your next life?!!”
Li Guanyi flipped his hand to grasp firmly.
With just a gentle touch of his finger, the formation he learned from an elder brother was complete, leaving a mark on the foreign monk’s wrist. Shaking Light discreetly followed Li Guanyi’s instructions and left a trace of mystical skills on this monk.
At the same time, Li Guanyi used the powder from Hou Zhongyu’s recipe, sprinkling it on this monk. It was a measure Hou Zhongyu prepared for the protection of Qilin Palace, praised even by his grandmaster for its ingenuity.
This formula is colorless and odorless, but by rubbing another kind of powder on the tip of the nose, it will emit a very strong fragrance.
Li Guanyi intended to look for traces of the Demon Sect and unexpectedly stumbled upon them.
How could he miss such a chance?
At that moment, he used formations, mystical skills, and medicine to add three layers of insurance, seeking solidity.
Meanwhile, attracting attention, he asked with a smile, “Why doesn’t Buddha come to find me in this life!?”
The foreign monk was stumped.
Marquis Qin Wu said, “Are you asking if I’m afraid of Buddha in my next life?”
“I don’t see Buddha, and Buddha doesn’t see me.”
“Is the Buddha you speak of also afraid of me?”
The foreign monk’s face flushed red, and his eyes almost seemed on fire as he stared at Li Guanyi, wanting to retort, yet his Buddhist scripture knowledge and Demon Sect techniques couldn’t refute this sharp-tongued guy and could only say, “Would you dare leave your name?!”
Li Guanyi stood tall and proud, saying, “I do not change my name while walking, nor my surname while sitting.”
“I am Tian Ge’er!”
Hearing this, Batuer, who had earlier wondered if this might be a new hero from the Central Plains, suddenly halted his thoughts: “…” The vigor instantly deflated.
Tian Ge’er is a legendary tale passed down by word of mouth, already colored with myth.
The two foreign monks were speechless, their imposing manner suddenly broken, then more angrily said, “Tian Ge’er? Who are you to dare use a name from a story to fool us!”
The silver-haired girl on the side was crouching on the ground, earnestly picking up coins.
The foreign monk was greatly angered and, with effort, tried to shake off Li Guanyi’s hand but could not, then loudly said, “This person has committed the grave sin of blaspheming Buddha and will go to hell, destined to have his tongue pulled out and suffer in the hell of tongue extraction!”
“Not allowed to even speak, how domineering this monk is.”
Li Guanyi chuckled after leaving a mark behind, giving Batuer a meaningful glance.
Batuer, very clever, drew his dagger and pointed at Li Guanyi and others to distance himself, shouting, “Where do you come from, daring to seize the treasures of Lord Buddha?”
The foreign monk shouted, “These are to be offered to all Buddhas!”
Li Guanyi laughed loudly, hoisting the foreign monk with one hand as if lifting a fallen leaf, using Xue Family’s Shattering Jade Fist to shake the monk’s wrist free, then swinging him like a stone to crash into another monk.
A crowd had long since rushed out with a commotion.
Someone shouted in Central Plains dialect, “Run quickly, head for the city gate, this city houses over a thousand monks, not needing to labor, eating the purest meat every day while practicing Small Mahayana Buddhist Law, holding high status here.”
“Different from Central Plains’ Buddhist Sect disciples.”
“The Buddhas here, those are the real Buddhas!”
Li Guanyi saw the true itinerant merchant from the Central Plains, Zhang Ziweng, shouting while already riding a camel away, Li Guanyi laughing as he casually grabbed a falling clothesline pole nearby, shaking off a guard with a headscarf.
With his left arm, like an ape’s extended arm, he scooped up the silver-haired girl who was collecting coins.
Directly wrapping his arm around the girl’s waist.