Chapter 383: Pressure
The people of Ming Fo Temple were extremely dissatisfied with the current situation.
If this dragging continues, by the time Lu Ye grows up, they’ll all be dead!
However, the Buddha Child is incredibly important.
Should they kill a few to intimidate Lu Ye, forcing him to come forward and trade the Buddha Child for the people of the Heavenly Gate?
Then, while ensuring the Buddha Child’s safety, go all out to hunt down Lu Ye?
This was a feasible plan, but the key point was that Lu Ye hadn’t shown any intention of trading the Buddha Child, which made the people of Ming Fo Temple uncomfortable.
After intense discussions, they decided to give Lu Ye an ultimatum.
Just then, a message arrived from the Sixth Heaven.
“Amitabha, what are you all doing?”
A hoarse old voice resonated from the withered golden body.
“Shishu, the Buddha Child has been captured by Lu Ye, and he seems to not care about the people of the Heavenly Gate. We’re thinking of using them to exchange for the Buddha Child. We should kill a few to make Lu Ye understand the seriousness of the situation!” Fa Hui quickly explained.
A deep sigh echoed from within the golden body.
“Too slow, you’re acting too slowly!”
“I told you before that everything must be quick, quick! How much time has passed?” The voice from the golden figure gritted its teeth and said.
“But… he captured the Buddha Child…”
“I don’t care who he captured! Do I need to know all the details? I only know you need to stop all actions regarding the Heavenly Gate immediately! Release all the Heavenly Gate people! Immediately release them!”
The old voice from the golden body let out a lion-like roar.
Fa Hui’s face changed dramatically.
“What about Lu Ye?”
“If you can catch Lu Ye, do so, but you cannot use the people of the Heavenly Gate to threaten him right now!”
“We can’t find him…”
“Then I have no solution!”
“Now, immediately release the people of the Heavenly Gate! Right now! Immediately!”
Fa Hui wanted to say something, but then he heard a foreign voice from within the golden body.
“Don’t forget to offer compensation!”
Fa Hui’s expression stiffened.
Shishu… Shishu is now…
The Buddha Sect in the Sixth Heaven has been destroyed?
Or is it the Seventh Heaven or perhaps the Eighth Heaven?
The light from the golden body dimmed, cutting off the connection.
The expressions of Fa Hui and the others were incredibly grim. What was going on? The higher-ups wanted them to catch Lu Ye and have him help the Buddha Child grow.
Yet, they failed to capture him, and now the higher-ups ordered them to release the Heavenly Gate.
They were relying on the Heavenly Gate people to threaten Lu Ye into showing himself, but they hadn’t been able to find Lu Ye at all.
They tried everything—causal connections, breathing meditations, large-scale searches, even employing fateful powers.
They just couldn’t find Lu Ye.
Now, if they release the Heavenly Gate people, what will be waiting for them?
A hidden poisonous snake, and this snake isn’t just poisonous, it’s also growing madly, ready to transform into a giant python or a mythical dragon at any moment.
Such a thing has been lurking and watching them in the shadows of Ming Fo Temple…
“We absolutely can’t release the Heavenly Gate people! This is the only leverage we have against Lu Ye. If we release them, Ming Fo Temple will fall into a position where it can be slaughtered at will. We cannot release the Heavenly Gate people, I refuse to agree!” A robust monk exclaimed loudly.
“That’s right, we absolutely can’t release them, I also disagree!”
“If we were to release them, we need Lu Ye to guarantee that he’ll clear all grudges with Ming Fo Temple moving forward; if that happens, we can let them go!”
“But the Sixth Heaven doesn’t seem to be a match for the Heavenly Gate?”
“Amitabha, we aren’t a match for Lu Ye either!”
Almost all the monks disagreed with simply releasing the Heavenly Gate people.
Fa Hui felt bitter.
Things were simply not going in the direction he expected.
He thought that the Heart Method could hold Lu Ye back, but it had no effect on him.
He thought he could find Lu Ye, but he couldn’t find him at all.
He thought capturing the Heavenly Gate people would force Lu Ye to yield, but the narrative completely flipped and Lu Ye captured the Buddha Child instead, deviating entirely from his expectations.
As a result, the situation had dragged on to this point.
Fa Hui’s expression fluctuated as he pondered.
To be honest, he actually wanted to release them… After all, they hadn’t killed a single person from the Heavenly Gate.
But after this series of uncontrollable developments, Fa Hui understood that whatever he wanted to decide, he should do the opposite!
Because simply pursuing what he wanted would only make things worse.
Fa Hui took out the Transmitting Stone.
“Lu Ye, I want you to answer me now—do you truly not want to hand over the Buddha Child?”
Lu Ye ignored him.
“Alright, alright, alright!”
He repeated the word “alright” three times.
“Then don’t blame me for being ruthless! If you don’t reply within fifteen minutes, I’ll kill one person from the Heavenly Gate!”
“If you don’t reply within ten minutes, I’ll kill ten people from the Heavenly Gate!”
“Let’s see how cold-hearted you can be!”
“Bring Daoist Guanzhi to me!”
Lu Ye, who was meditating, opened his eyes, revealing an extremely cold glint in them.
“Luan Gate Master, are you busy at the moment?” Lu Ye’s mark of heaven flickered with a faint light.
Luan Xin, the Gate Master of the Seventh Heaven’s Heavenly Gate, was a blue phoenix, and there were various beings in the Heavenly Gate who adored the Heavenly Dao and joined their ranks alongside humans.
“Gate Master, what do you need? I’m currently engaged in a scuffle with these bald donkeys, but it’s not a problem!”
The Seventh Heaven’s Heavenly Gate was now also in conflict with the Buddha Sect.
That’s how it is in the Nine Heavens.
Usually, battles in the lower realms would directly lead to confrontations in the upper realms as well.
If the Grand Dao Sect had always existed, who knows how many times they would have been destroyed? Luckily, the Grand Dao Sect is a relatively new small power; if it were a medium-sized power in the Nine Heavens, Lu Ye’s battle in the Second Heaven might have led to the Grand Dao Sect being wiped out in the Third or Fourth Heavens.
Now the Heavenly Gate found itself in a similar situation, but the difference was that the Heavenly Gate was just too powerful.
Currently, the Heavenly Gate in the Fifth Heaven was average, but the further up you go, the stronger the powers become.
Now that the Heavenly Gate in the Fifth Heaven was bullied, those above couldn’t sit still—are you guys from the Buddha Sect actually bullying us at the Heavenly Gate?
Do you really think we have no one in the Heavenly Gate?
Fight, fight, fight!
The Buddha Sect in the Sixth Heaven was already battered, while the Seventh Heaven’s Heavenly Gate and Buddha Sect were locked in fierce conflict.
Lu Ye wasn’t surprised by this.
“If the fighting isn’t too intense right now, could you please head to the Netherworld and have the Book of Life and Death retrieve some True Spirits and keep them in the book?”
Luan Xin’s face turned livid upon hearing this.
“Do they really dare to kill people from the Heavenly Gate?”
“Yep.”
“Alright, alright! I’m heading over now!”
“Bald donkeys! Damned bald donkeys!”
As Luan Xin shouted in fury, the ancient Buddha in the Seventh Heaven couldn’t help but change their expression upon witnessing Luan Xin’s wrath.
What on earth happened?
