Liu Li, Yu Xin, and Ge Yiyuan returned to Mingshan and waited quietly. In the past few days, members of the three major divine beast clans have been sent to Mingshan one after another. The three clans sent a total of more than 300 divine beast youths. After arriving at Mingshan, they clearly stated that they were willing to obey Liu Li's orders. Li Molin was also happy that Liu Li's strength had greatly increased, so he naturally agreed.

A few days later, news finally came that the elders of Bodhi Temple, along with many disciples, went to Yuandao Sect in a fit of rage to demand an explanation. They questioned why the Demon Ant Gu, which had caused the deaths of hundreds of people in Bodhi Temple, was in Liang Yihan's storage ring. They asked how Liang Yihan, as a righteous disciple, could have the Demon Ant Gu on his person.

Liang Yihan was speechless and Yuanling was angry at his lack of resistance. However, Liang Yihan was, after all, a legendary figure who revived Taoism, and he was indeed outstanding enough. Therefore, Yuanling withstood the pressure from Bodhi Temple and stubbornly argued that the demonic ant gu was a trap set by the demon race, protecting Liang Yihan at all costs.

Liang Yihan was saved, but the struggle between Buddhism and Taoism suddenly intensified. The Buddhist disciples deeply resented that Taoism had helped the demons frame them, and most of them were filled with righteous indignation.

Under such circumstances, disciples from both Buddhism and Taoism would not greet each other when they met in public, and some with more volatile tempers would even fight. The relationship between the two sides became extremely tense, with lively fighting taking place.

Liuli smiled with satisfaction upon receiving this news.

Subsequently, Li Molin led the Xuanjia Army and Liuli led more than 300 divine beasts to launch a large-scale attack on the righteous sects in the Central Plains. Li Molin specifically targeted the Taoist sects, while Liuli specifically targeted the Buddhist sects. For a time, demonic flames raged throughout the Central Plains.

In just a few days, large numbers of righteous disciples were killed, several small sects were wiped out, and the demon race gained a significant advantage.

Faced with this situation, many in the righteous path felt a sense of crisis. However, the secret struggle between Buddhism and Taoism had lasted for millennia, their open and covert battles never ceasing, and their contradictions had accumulated day by day. At this moment, Liang Yihan's matter suddenly intensified this contradiction, and a struggle instantly spread like wildfire throughout the Central Plains. Even if one or two people wanted to mediate this conflict, their voices were too small and were quickly drowned out by the cries of the Buddhist and Taoist factions.

Shi Chan was deeply worried about the tense relationship between Buddhism and Taoism. In addition, the demons were taking advantage of the situation, which made him even more worried. He really did not want to let things continue like this. If things continued like this, the righteous side would surely be defeated, and the Central Plains would probably be occupied by the demons. At that time, the people of the Central Plains would suffer greatly from the persecution of the demons and live a difficult life.

In an attempt to mediate the conflict between Buddhism and Taoism, Shi Chan came to Bodhi Temple and went to the meditation room where Shi Ning lived.

At that moment, the two sat facing each other on the prayer mat. Shi Chan looked worried and sighed, "Senior brother, we Buddhists and Taoists can no longer have disputes. We can only overcome this calamity by temporarily abandoning our hatred, cooperating sincerely with the Taoist sect, and uniting all the forces of the righteous path!"

Shi Ning shook his head and sighed, "Shi Chan, how could my senior brother not know this principle? But so many disciples have died in the temple, and we have suddenly learned that the culprit is someone from our righteous path. Yuan Dao Zong has been protecting Liang Yihan. The disciples in the temple are extremely indignant. Now even I, this humble monk, cannot suppress their anger!"

After a moment of silence, Shi Chan raised his eyes and asked, "Senior brother, could you gather the disciples in the temple and let me try to persuade them to temporarily abandon their hatred for the Daoist sect?"

Shi Ning shook his head and said, "Shi Chan, you don't need to waste your energy. Senior brother has mentioned many times in the morning class that the disciples of the temple should temporarily swallow their anger, step forward to appease the anger of the Buddhist sect, unite with the Taoist sect to fight against the common enemy, drive out the demons first, and then talk about other things. However, the disciples of the temple say that unless the Taoist sect hands over Liang Yihan to them for their disposal, there is absolutely no way they will let this go."

Shi Chan's expression was grave; he shook his head and sighed softly.

Shi Ning sighed, “Shi Chan, this is not hard to understand. During the ant-gu calamity, more than half of the disciples in the temple were killed or wounded. Now, all the surviving disciples have lost their closest fellow disciples. Such grief is no less than the death of a blood brother. Before, I was very puzzled as to how the evil fox could have silently placed the ant-gu in my temple. Now I suddenly realize that before the ant-gu calamity, Liang Yihan had come to the mountain on purpose! And the head of the Yuandao Sect has been biased towards Liang Yihan without any reason. Even if it is confirmed that he helped the evil fox place the ant-gu in my Bodhi Temple, Yuan Ling still refuses to hand over Liang Yihan!”

After a moment of silence, Shi Chan said in a low voice, "I have always known that Liang Yihan is too scheming and too quick-witted, but I really did not expect that he would help... help the demons to harm our Buddhist sect, which belongs to the same righteous path as them."

Shi Ning gave him a deep look and said, "It's not helping the demons, it's clearly helping the evil fox! The evil fox must have known that Liang Yihan wouldn't want to see our Buddhist sect surpass their Taoist sect in development, so it hit it off with Liang Yihan and joined forces to cause my Bodhi Temple a terrible disaster! And you don't know, junior brother, but a few days ago, the more than 300 people from the three sects of our Buddhist sect were sent out to hunt down the evil fox. They couldn't find any trace of the evil fox. Later, Liang Yihan claimed to have seen the evil fox and kindly took our more than 300 people there. Who knew that those more than 300 people would fall into the ambush set by the evil fox? These more than 300 excellent disciples were almost wiped out!"

Shi Ning paused to catch his breath, while Shi Chan frowned and hesitated before saying, "When I arrived at the scene that day, the battle was already over. Our Buddhist sect suffered heavy casualties among its more than three hundred disciples. Could that incident also be related to Liang Yihan?"

“That’s right!” A flash of anger crossed Shi Ning’s face. “A few days ago, one of Liang Yihan’s senior brothers accidentally broke his storage ring. In addition to a lot of demonic ant gu, a lot of medicine bottles fell out. His senior brother was so shocked that he stomped on one of the medicine bottles and broke it. The disciples in our temple smelled the poison in that bottle, and when the poison took effect, it was exactly the same as the poison that the evil fox had used that day! And that day, Liang Yihan happened to be the one who brought those three hundred-plus outstanding disciples there. This matter must be related to him!”

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