Du Kong and Lu An walked through the huge square one after the other. When they walked through the crowd, Du Kong couldn't help but look at Lu An in a new light.
With thousands of people reciting scriptures at the same time, even if they unintentionally released their Divine Sense power, it would gather to a considerable extent. Unless one specialized in Divine Sense power, even a mid-level Level Eight Heavenly Master would be affected, let alone an early-level Level Eight Heavenly Master. Lu An could walk out without changing his expression. He was indeed not a simple person.
The two of them walked into the tall area of the plaza, and then entered another small and large plaza. There was a cylindrical building in the center of the square. There were eight doors around it and eight roads leading to it. The palace was very big. At this moment, all eight doors were open. There was a huge Buddha statue inside. At this moment, many people were worshipping and burning incense in front of the Buddha statue.
Even standing far away, Lu An could feel the powerful aura coming from these people. In addition, most of these people were not wearing the Karmic Fire Sect's monk robes. It was enough to show that they were not from the Karmic Fire Sect.
Among these people, Lu An also sensed a few familiar auras. Without a doubt, they were people from the other eight sects.
It seemed that the people from the other eight sects did not go to the palace to rest. Instead, they were all brought here to worship the Buddha statue. Du Kong and Lu An walked together and soon arrived outside the huge palace.
The people in the palace naturally sensed their arrival. They all turned to look. Of course, their gazes were all focused on Lu An. These people's gazes were hostile. After all, after being persuaded by the other sects for so many days, they also began to suspect that the Ice Fire Alliance might benefit from it. However, this possibility was still too low in their eyes. It was far more likely that someone from the other eight sects was lying.
Lu An did not avoid these people's gazes. He followed Du Kong and strode into the palace. However, the two monks guarding the door on the left and right suddenly stepped forward and stopped Lu An. One of them was holding a water basin, while the other was holding a white towel. Both of them stared at Lu An.
Lu An was a little confused. He did not know what these two people wanted to do. At this moment, Du Kong explained to Lu An, "This Buddha is called the 'Apologetic Buddha'. You have to wash your face before offering incense; this is a rule here."
Lu An frowned slightly when he heard this. He looked at the people from the eight sects and saw that they were not surprised at all. It seemed that this was indeed the case. Although he didn't believe in any religion, he didn't want to cause any trouble, so he didn't mind burning some incense.
Thus, Lu An washed his face with water and wiped it dry with a white towel. As expected, the two monks moved aside, and Lu An continued to walk forward.
A monk passed him an incense stick. Lu An took the incense stick and prepared to put it in the incense burner.
However, just as Lu An was about to do so, the monk suddenly stopped him.
"Alliance Master Lu, you can't burn incense directly." Du Kong explained, "You have to pay your respects first."
Lu An frowned slightly when he heard this. After some thought, he bowed to the Buddha statue in front of him. He wanted to walk forward but was stopped again.
"Alliance Master Lu." Du Kong said, "You have to kneel to pay your respects."
"…"
The surrounding people looked at Lu An with mocking smiles. 'He doesn't even know how to pay his respects to Buddha. Does he have a brain?'
Lu An frowned. He turned to look at Du Kong and asked, "Can't I not kneel?"
"No." Du Kong shook his head firmly and said, "This is not only the rule of the Karmic Fire Sect, but also the rule of Buddhism."
Lu An frowned even more. He turned around and handed the incense stick in his hand to Du Kong. He said, "Then I won't offer any incense."
As soon as he said that, everyone present was stunned!
Du Kong was also stunned. He didn't even react and instinctively took the incense stick in Lu An's hand. However, he quickly came back to his senses and asked in shock, "You're not going to pay your respects to Buddha?"
"I don't believe in any religion." Lu An looked at Du Kong and said seriously, "To respect Buddhism, I can at most bow. I will never kneel."
"…"
As soon as he said that, everyone in the palace frowned, especially the people of the Karmic Fire Sect. They frowned and glared at Lu An!
"God is watching you from afar!" Someone from the other sects sneered. "The Buddha statue is right in front of you. Aren't you afraid of retribution for saying such words?"
Hearing this, Lu An turned to look at this person. That person was stunned, but he was fearless because Lu An wouldn't make a move here.
Lu An naturally wouldn't make a move. He just said calmly, "I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on my door if I don't do anything wrong. I have a clear conscience. Even if there's a god, he will protect me. I'm not like some people who have committed too many sins and are afraid of retribution. That's why they come here."
"You!" That person gritted his teeth and his face turned pale!
Lu An turned his head and ignored that person. He didn't look at him again. He looked around and was very indifferent to the people of the eight sects, just like how he was angry before he left ten days ago.
"Master Du Kong." Lu An finally fixed his eyes on Du Kong and said, "I'm here to talk about something, not to worship Buddha. If this will take a long time, why don't I go back to the Ice Fire Island and wait for a while? I'll come back when the discussion starts."
"…"
Du Kong frowned. To be honest, he was very angry because in his opinion, Lu An was too arrogant. He was just showing off and pretending to be ignorant!
In the world, Buddhism was the biggest religion. Even people of other religions would be very respectful to Buddha and would worship and offer incense when they met. Or in other words, who didn't believe in fate? Who didn't believe in ghosts and gods? Who didn't believe in Buddha and gods? This Lu An was simply pestering them endlessly and forcefully trying to make his presence known!
Disrespect to Buddha was disrespect to the Karmic Fire Sect! Du Kong's face suddenly turned gloomy, and he said coldly to Lu An, "There's still half an hour left. If Alliance Master Lu doesn't want to offer incense, you can only wait outside!"
Du Kong's voice was very strong, but Lu An didn't have any emotional fluctuations. He turned around and walked outside. He stepped over the threshold and stood outside the palace.
Everyone in the palace watched Lu An's departing figure with their eyes fixed on him. The people of the Karmic Fire Sect were angry, but the people of the eight sects were gloating. Lu An's actions had offended another sect. He was simply asking for trouble.
In the square outside the door, Lu An stood still and looked at the murals on the high walls. He looked at the countless Buddha statues inside with a very calm expression.
To be honest, he really didn't understand why people believed in religion.
In his opinion, only people with high positions should believe in religion and pray that they would still have such a position in their next life. He didn't understand why the poor believed in religion. Could it be that praying to Buddha would make life better? In the past, many slaves in the slave cave were religious and prayed to the heavens in the slave cave, but didn't they all die in the end?
Rather than believing in religion, it was better to believe in oneself.
In the world, in addition to religion, there were various schools of thought. These were the things that Lu An recognized very much. The nature of Daoism, the thinking of Confucianism, the practicality of Legalism, the techniques of Mohism, and the tricks of the Military School were things that needed to be learned and worshipped. Only by gathering the strengths of a hundred schools of thought and mastering them through a comprehensive study could one truly change one's fate.
Just believing in religion could change one's fate? In any case, Lu An didn't believe it.
Sure enough, after half an hour, the worshipping finally ended. The people of the eight sects walked out and stood in the square. Du Kong said to everyone, "Please follow me to the main hall. The Great Elder of the meditation hall is already waiting for you."
Everyone nodded and followed Du Kong's footsteps to go deeper. Lu An naturally followed, but he was at the back. This time, they didn't walk too far. After leaving the square, they soon arrived at a large courtyard.
Inside the courtyard, there was a large building. At this moment, the door was open and there were many tables and chairs inside. The tables were filled with vegetarian dishes.
The people of the eight sects entered one after another and soon found a total of nine seats. The eight sects immediately chose their favorite seats. When Lu An came in, there was only a remote corner closest to the door.
Lu An didn't care and directly walked over and sat down. When everyone was in place, four monks walked in from the side door.
As guests, the people of the eight sects stood up, including Lu An. Many of them recognized the leading monk and immediately greeted with a Buddhist salute, "Greetings Master Du Xu!"
Master Du Xu stood tall and straight, his appearance was more resolute and calm than Du Kong. He came to the front of the main seat, bowed to everyone and said, "Everyone, please take a seat!"
Everyone took their seats. At this moment, Du Kong came to Du Xu's side and whispered something in his ear.
Du Xu's brows furrowed, and his eyes were filled with displeasure and even anger!
Then, Du Xu turned his head and suddenly looked at the corner of the table — the furthest away Lu An!
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