Huff, huff—
The cold wind whipped the flags atop the high platform, the gilded characters for "Challenge" exceedingly conspicuous against the Buddha Light shining down from the heavens.
"Zhao Douan?!"
Atop the platform, the Red Sect Master and Monk Bian Ji, seated across from each other in meditation, both showed surprise on their faces. The latter, even more rarely, lost his composure and shouted out his name.
Below, there was a commotion in the square.
The plump female monk, who had been neglected in the front row, was momentarily stunned; her "wise eyes" fixed on the young man who seemed to descend like a heavenly being, her expression becoming extremely strange.
Prajna Bodhisattva turned his head and glanced at Abbot Xuan Yin beside him.
Hmm... true to form as the chief abbot of the Divine Dragon Temple in the Heavenly Human Realm, the elder monk Xuan Yin merely furrowed his brows slightly, expressing no opinion.
