Chapter 913 – The Incident in the Temple (1/2)
Chapter 913 – The Incident in the Temple
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
After the array broke, the blue-clothed visitor suddenly attacked, the Great Western Continent's scheme was exposed, and Wang Po and Bie Yanghong joined together to engage in a thunderous assault. As a result, Huai Bi's actions became less conspicuous.
But many people had not forgotten.
Like the disciples of South Stream Temple, or Xu Yourong.
She looked at Huai Bi and calmly asked, ”Just what did Shang Xingzhou promise you that you would do such a thing?”
Huai Bi knew that she was now in a most concerning situation. Gritting her teeth, she replied, ”I do not understand your meaning.”
Xu Yourong ceased her questioning. She turned to Chen Changsheng and requested, ”Your Holiness the Pope, please comprehend the laws.”
On the plateau, when Chen Changsheng put a stop to the closing of South Stream Temple, he had relied on his right as the Pope to comprehend the laws.
Xu Yourong was making this request partially to borrow his authority, but also to show to the disciples of South Stream Temple that he had this power.
Even though she was the Holy Maiden, she was still a woman with far too many things to keep in mind.
Regardless of the considerations that served as the basis for Huai Ren's decision to close South Stream Temple, Huai Bi's conduct on the plateau was utterly unacceptable.
Her conduct would be similarly unacceptable in any other sect, so the laws of the church naturally had clear punishments for her crimes.
”Either cripple her cultivation and exile her from the sect.”
Chen Changsheng recalled the scriptures of the church he had memorized as a child, then continued, ”Or imprison her so that she can reflect on her errors.”
Huai Bi instantly paled, and she turned to Huai Ren, hesitant to speak.
Huai Ren wanted to plead for mercy on her behalf, but then she suddenly recalled how she, Huai Shu, and Huai Bi had traveled the world together for many years, how a Daoist from the Monastery of Eternal Spring had suddenly sought them out, and they had gone to the capital to meet the venerable Daoist Shang Xingzhou. She couldn't help but begin to doubt, her thoughts sluggish.
Xu Yourong looked at Huai Bi and asked, ”Yuan Yueqin, which do you choose?”
Huai Bi noted Huai Ren's silence and believed that her senior sister had abandoned her. Hate rose from her heart as she clenched her teeth and asked, ”Imprisonment? How long are you prepared to imprison me?”
Xu Yourong replied, ”The day you understand where you were wrong is the day you will be released.”
Huai Bi coldly laughed, and then shrilly said, ”You just want to imprison me in Holy Maiden Peak for the rest of my life! How can I do as you wish!”
Xu Yourong's expression did not change as she calmly asked, ”It seems that you are choosing the former?”
The former was crippling her cultivation and exiling her from the sect, the same punishment Mu Jiushi had received in the Li Palace. However, that princess of the Great Western Continent had her own clan's techniques to protect her after her cultivation of the Orthodoxy's methods was crippled. In contrast, Huai Bi had cultivated nothing but the techniques of South Stream Temple. If this were crippled, how was she any different from an invalid?
Huai Bi turned even paler and spite gushed out of her eyes. ”If I choose neither?”
Xu Yourong calmly replied, ”Then I will have to represent the ancestors of the temple in directly carrying out the laws of the church and rules of the temple.”
Huai Shu seemed to resolve herself, stepping forward to stand between Xu Yourong and Huai Bi.
This Daoist nun of fiery personality had no desire to come to blows with the current Holy Maiden. She just subconsciously did not want to see what might happen next.
The disciples of South Stream Temple thought differently. Swords began to brightly hum and sword intent rose up. The several hundred disciples seemed to be standing in random positions, but they were actually forming an extremely complicated sword array. The energy of this sword array was boundless and awe-inspiring, blocking off all paths down the mountain.
At this sight, Huai Ren sighed. Looking at Huai Bi, she advised, ”If you look at your heart and find no shame, your self-reflection will only last a few days. I will wait for you at the base of the mountain.”
Senior Sister, how can you be so… stupid!”
Huai Bi appeared extremely aggrieved as she said, ”It's obvious that the Holy Maiden wants to use me to establish her power. Do you think she actually needs any evidence or reflection?”