Chapter 437

Only ownerless innate spiritual treasures are so easily taken away.

As long as it is an innate spiritual treasure with an owner, the owner can ignore everything and manipulate it.

If there are no corresponding means, even a Saint can only suppress it, but cannot take it away directly.

"Senior brother Tongtian, you..."

After understanding the Saint Tongtian's purpose, the Saint Jieyin hurriedly spoke, wanting to condemn the Saint Tongtian and demand the return of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

But before the Saint Jieyin's words could be spoken, the Saint Tongtian's figure had already disappeared from where he was.

Seeing this scene, the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti both closed their mouths and fell into silence.

"Slashing the connection between an innate spiritual treasure and its owner with one sword—it seems that over these years, senior brother Tongtian has not been standing still in the Zixiao Palace. Moreover, his personality seems to have become even more uninhibited."

The Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti looked at each other, and this thought flashed through all their minds.

Slashing the connection between an innate spiritual treasure and its owner silently with one sword—such means, the Saint Tongtian before the Investiture of the Gods could not do.

Now the Saint Tongtian could perform such means, which shows that in these years in the Zixiao Palace, the Saint Tongtian's Great Dao of the Sword had made no small progress.

Furthermore, after being confined by the Dao Ancestor Hongjun for so many years, the personality of the Saint Tongtian has undergone significant changes.

In the past, the Saint Tongtian would absolutely have disdained to personally take action to snatch an innate spiritual treasure from the hands of a Quasi-Saint powerhouse.

Even if that innate spiritual treasure had been snatched from the Jie Sect, the Saint Tongtian would have disdained to take action to snatch it back.

In the eyes of the Saint Tongtian, as long as it was not the strong bullying the weak, and as long as his disciples were not killed, it was not a matter of any consequence.

If one could not defeat others and one's spiritual treasure was snatched, that was simply a case of inferior skill, and one deserved to be bullied.

What he hated most was stepping in for such matters.

The Saint Tongtian was indeed protective of his own, but he only protected them against the strong bullying the weak or the many bullying the few.

Yet, the Saint Tongtian of today is different; he is no longer as aloof as before, acting more according to his own whims and disregarding the consequences.

Such a Saint Tongtian makes the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti feel somewhat unfamiliar, and at the same time, somewhat wary.

If a Saint acts according to their whims without regard for consequences, I fear there is no faction in the Three Realms that would not feel wary and troubled.

"My twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls! I implore the Saint to uphold justice for me."

The Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti fell silent, but the Ancient Buddha Randeng could not remain silent.

What had just been snatched away were the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls that he cared about most and upon which he had spent countless efforts.

When the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls were in the hands of Zhao Gongming, they did not possess their current power.

If it were not for the Ancient Buddha Randeng spending a vast amount of energy to open up each Sea-Calming Pearl into a small world, and then painstakingly gathering a large number of believers to place into each small world,

it would have been fundamentally impossible to develop the power of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls to this degree.

When they were in Zhao Gongming's hands, the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls were merely a mediocre top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

But in the hands of the Ancient Buddha Randeng, the Twenty-Four Heavens became famous throughout the Three Realms.

The great supernatural beings in the Three Realms all knew the prestige of the Twenty-Four Heavens, praising the Ancient Buddha Randeng's Twenty-Four Heavens Array as unbreakable by anyone but a Saint.

Having spent such countless efforts on an innate spiritual treasure that contained almost half of his wealth and foundation, only for it to be snatched away by the Saint Tongtian just like that, how could the Ancient Buddha Randeng be reconciled?

Regarding the request of the Ancient Buddha Randeng, the Saint Jieyin could no longer remain silent and had to speak:

"Randeng, go back and tend to your injuries first. We will negotiate with Senior Brother Tongtian to demand the return of your twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls."

Just as the Saint Jieyin said, after finishing with the matters concerning Luo Fu, he and the Saint Zhunti would certainly negotiate with the Saint Tongtian to demand the return of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

The Ancient Buddha Randeng could be considered the only powerhouse in Buddhism who could rival the limit of a Quasi-Saint.

For such a powerhouse, even as Saints, the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti had to give sufficient importance.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls were the guarantee of the Ancient Buddha Randeng's combat power; if they could be reclaimed, the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti would absolutely spare no cost.

They also did not want the Ancient Buddha Randeng to lose too much combat power.

After all, Buddhism still needed the Ancient Buddha Randeng to save face. With the Great Calamity about to begin, it was a time of many troubles, and the combat power of the Ancient Buddha Randeng was indispensable to Buddhism.

If what had been here just now was not a projection but his true self, the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti would absolutely have taken action without hesitation to intercept the Saint Tongtian and reclaim the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

But as a projection, their power was limited, and they were simply too late to stop the Saint Tongtian. As for where the Saint Tongtian was, the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti could easily lock onto him through the Heavenly Dao.

Since the Saint Tongtian had already left, if they wanted to reclaim the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, they would have to plan carefully.

As fellow Saints, if the Saint Tongtian did not bestow the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls upon his disciples, even the Saint Zhunti would not dare guarantee that he could snatch them back from the hands of the Saint Tongtian.

The matter was a foregone conclusion; there was no use in thinking too much.

The most important thing now was to settle the matter of the Journey to the West with Luo Fu.

"Senior Brother Tongtian's sword Qi is not so easily extracted. Randeng, return to Lingshan first, take a Golden Lotus Seed, and tend to your injuries well. As for the matter of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, we will seek justice for you."

The Saint Zhunti also spoke to comfort him.

The most important thing at the moment was to finalize the Journey to the West; the Ancient Buddha Randeng could only be pacified for now, and they would find a way to deal with it later.

"Yes! I implore the Saints to be sure to seek justice for me."

Seeing that both the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti told him to withdraw first, the Ancient Buddha Randeng could only suppress the anger in his heart and choose to obey.

Although he was filled with grief and indignation, the Ancient Buddha Randeng still possessed reason. He knew very well that he could not be a match for the Saint Tongtian on his own.

To reclaim the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, he still had to rely on the two Saints.

And Saints were not people he could drive as he pleased; in the current situation, he could only choose to obey the orders of the two Saints.

"Amitabha!"

Chanting a low Buddhist name, the figure of the Ancient Buddha Randeng slowly disappeared into the Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Watching the disappearing figure of the Ancient Buddha Randeng, a hint of schadenfreude appeared on Luo Fu's face.

Although both the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti said they would seek justice for the Ancient Buddha Randeng, Luo Fu knew that the Ancient Buddha Randeng's twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls would likely never be returned.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls were originally items of the Jie Sect, so it was only natural for the Saint Tongtian to reclaim them.

If the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti were to demand them directly from the Saint Tongtian, the Saint Tongtian could directly refuse using this reason.

Even if the Saint Jieyin and the Saint Zhunti were shameless, they would find it hard to occupy the moral high ground on this matter.

Unable to find a reason to demand them himself, trying to snatch them back by force from the Saint Tongtian was an impossible task.

The current Saint Tongtian was basically a lone wolf with no obvious weaknesses.

Trying to manipulate him from that angle was also impossible.

Therefore, unless the Saint Tongtian was willing to hand them over voluntarily, the Ancient Buddha Randeng's painful loss of the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls was destined to be a foregone conclusion.

Luo Fu could also see the efforts the Ancient Buddha Randeng had spent on the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls.

Having spent so much effort refining the twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, only to have them snatched away by someone else, was definitely a huge blow to the Ancient Buddha Randeng.

However, Luo Fu did not sympathize with the Ancient Buddha Randeng. After all, he was also a member of the Jie Sect.

For a member of the Jie Sect, taking back one's own things was a matter of course.

After the Ancient Buddha Randeng left, the gazes of the two Saints fell upon Luo Fu once again.

"Fellow Daoist, are there any other conditions you wish to propose?"

The Saint Jieyin looked at Luo Fu, speaking in a tone that carried the weight of the two Western Saints.

The bet originally proposed by Luo Fu was extremely important to Buddhism.