Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 577: Chapter 335: Group Out

The Venerable host of Ten Thousand Buddha Temple greeted Patriarch Weng Zhao with a Buddhist salute, wearing a smile that made him look less like a Buddhist monk and more like a businessman.

In fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that, as the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple holds a special place in the Cultivation World, primarily focusing on spreading Buddhist teachings throughout the mortal realm.

Instead of concentrating their development in one location, the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple had spread its heritage throughout the entire Cultivation World. Whenever a Venerable of such powerful stature appeared in any of their temples across any continent, they would travel to find new continents and establish the lineage of Ten Thousand Buddha Temples there.

This meant that Ten Thousand Buddha Temple was never a powerful sect, and in fact, most of its branches didn’t even have a Venerable.

The survival strategy of Ten Thousand Buddha Temple lay in avoiding any involvement in power struggles; they merely provided information transmission remotely.

Of course, this was under the condition that a sufficient price was paid—each Ten Thousand Buddha Temple acted as an intercontinental communication hub, and their method of transmitting information was an absolute secret.

Patriarch Weng Zhao came to the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple specifically to send a message to the headquarters of Skywalk Trading Company.

To activate the cross-continent message transmission, the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple had to pay a substantial price, and Patriarch Weng Zhao, who requested their intervention, had to pay even more.

“Please wait for three two-hour periods, I need some time to prepare,” the Venerable host said to Patriarch Weng Zhao after inviting him to sit down in the hall.

Facing a Nascent Soul Ancestor, the Venerable host’s demeanor was neither servile nor overbearing, indicating that he had his own confidence.

Perhaps the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple wasn’t as powerful as Skywalk Trading Company, but its capability to transmit information across continents made its status unique. Furthermore, how many Nascent Soul Ancestors the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple actually had was unknown to the outside world.

The unknown is what was truly fearsome; no power desired to destroy the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple unless that power was unaware of Ten Thousand Buddha Temple’s true depth.

The Ten Thousand Buddha Temple on Sky Sea Island, which was driven away by Mingxin Sect and continuously pressured in terms of its space for survival, was an example of actions taken without knowing the true details of Ten Thousand Buddha Temple.

It wasn’t likely that Ten Thousand Buddha Temple would deploy a Venerable to deal with an issue over the influence of a small island, so the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple on Sky Sea Island continuously retreated, possibly even back to the Beishu Continent.

However, whether the Venerables of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple would retaliate against Mingxin Sect when they had free time was unknown.

“I am aware of the rules,” said Patriarch Weng Zhao indifferently.

The speed of activating long-range communication at Ten Thousand Buddha Temple depended on the size of the local temple. The Ten Thousand Buddha Temple in the Beishu Continent was considered a mid-sized sect, and hence had limited resources. The slow activation speed of its long-range Communication Array was also expected.

“Our temple only has Second Grade Spirit Tea, please do not disdain it,” the Venerable host said with a smile as he served the Spiritual Tea to Patriarch Weng Zhao.

Regardless of Patriarch Weng Zhao’s attitude, he was an important customer to the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple.

The Ten Thousand Buddha Temple in the Beishu Continent led a very meager existence, primarily because the opportunities to use long-range information transmission were extremely scarce.

Beishu Continent was a relatively isolated continent, and the six major sects of the continent didn’t communicate much with the outside world, making cross-continent trading companies the main customers of the local Ten Thousand Buddha Temple.

After Skywalk Trading Company was hit, the business of Ten Thousand Buddha Temple became even worse.

Ordinary message transmission fees were manageable; typically, the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple would participate in an information exchange once a month, during which time-sensitive messages were not considered and were sent out during this monthly communication.

Patriarch Weng Zhao required real-time contact, which was a larger expenditure, and naturally, the charges were extremely high.

Opening a real-time, long-range, cross-continent communication once could generate profits substantial enough to allow this Ten Thousand Buddha Temple to nurture several Arhats.

As Patriarch Weng Zhao sat down to enjoy the tea while waiting for the preparations for the long-range cross-continent communication, the six major sects simultaneously made their move.

The Nascent Soul Ancestors left behind by the six major sects, under the contact of Elder Zuo from Shushan Sect, headed towards the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple at the same time.

Li Shiming underestimated his own influence; perhaps during his Foundation Establishment Stage, his influence as an Alchemy Master didn’t matter much to Nascent Soul Ancestors.

But once he achieved the Golden Core, and his potential slowly realized, his influence became undeniable even to Nascent Soul Ancestors.

With his age becoming a Golden Core cultivator, it was uncertain if he could become a Nascent Soul Ancestor, but becoming a Late-stage Golden Core cultivator was definitely not a problem.

And once he reached Late-stage Golden Core, he could concoct Fourth-grade Spirit Pills for Nascent Soul Ancestors; he would be a cultivator that any Nascent Soul Ancestor would treat with great care.

When he reported to his sect about the discovery of Patriarch Weng Zhao from Skywalk Trading Company, Elder Zuo took it very seriously and shared the news with the other five major sects.

Normally, the six major sects would align themselves into righteous and demonic factions and would have some minor frictions among themselves, but they stood united when facing external threats.

The simultaneous movement of the six Nascent Souls of the six major sects was unprecedented in the last few centuries.

Especially Qianye Temple, which, after suffering an unexpected attack, urgently needed a major battle to boost morale.

The suspicions of Qianye Temple towards the attackers weren’t like those of the other sects; they had their own judgement.

According to Qianye Temple, their enemies were incapable of mounting such significant actions. The only powers capable of causing such destruction to Qianye Temple were the six major sects.

But Qianye Temple had spies within the other five major sects, and the mutual contracts among the six major sects prevented any action from them.