Let me explain, it's not what you think.

"Jiangyu, the Buddhist monk said that he is paying close attention to you within the Buddhist community."

Lu Chen lowered his head and looked at the woman in his arms.

Jiang Yu's eyelashes trembled suddenly.

Her gaze fell on the hand around her waist, and she understood that Lu Chen was letting her choose for herself.

If he were to turn against her, Lu Chen would simply go along with it, kick her out of his territory, and then live a life with Zi Yao.

By then, everything the Buddhist nun had done would be for naught, and she herself would have already invested a huge amount of money!

She cannot accept this price, nor is she willing to accept it!

"I am a Buddhist nun, and my only thought is to cultivate myself. I have no other intentions. Please leave, Buddhist disciple." She stated coldly.

But no one knows the pain she is experiencing right now!

She recalled the day she first met Mingjue. They got to know each other, and she became his protector. Then she went from being his protector to becoming his most crucial pawn.

Mingjue told her to get close to Lu Chen, and she did. Mingjue told her to be patient, and she was patient.

In the end, what she got was him standing among the onlookers, watching Lu Chen pull her into his arms, his eyes red and silent.

A tear slid down her cheek and landed on the back of Lu Chen's hand that was around her waist.

Lu Chen neither wiped away her tears nor let go of her hand.

"Benefactor Lu! You should stop here! Didn't you see that Fairy Jiangyu is already crying? Why aren't you stopping?" Mingjue finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"Oh, you mean this? These are tears my Jiangyu shed because she felt sorry for me fighting with others. Wait a minute, let me comfort her!"

As Lu Chen spoke, he actually grabbed Jiang Yu's chin in front of everyone and kissed her fiercely!

"Hmm!"

Jiang Yu felt dizzy and disoriented, not knowing where she was.

!!!

Upon seeing this, Mingjue was first taken aback, then his face turned red at lightning speed.

"Ah!!! Lu Chen! Stop...shut up! I'm going to challenge you now, so you'd better accept the challenge!!"

With his roar, Jiang Yu also woke up as if from a dream. Ignoring the situation, she hurriedly broke free from Lu Chen's embrace, covered her face, and ran into Zi Yao's palace.

"Wow, we've been married for ages, and I didn't expect her to still be so shy. It's so endearing!"

"Buddha, don't be in such a hurry. Let me say a few more words to my wife, Ziyao!"

As Lu Chen spoke, he came to Zi Yao's side.

"My husband..."

"This Buddhist disciple is very powerful. If I fight him, there's a chance he might convert me. If that happens, you must kill both of us immediately, understand?"

Zi Yao's eyes widened.

"No...no, my husband, don't talk nonsense. Yao Yao...how could Yao Yao dare to lay a hand on my husband? I'd rather die!"

"Listen to me! I'm not entirely confident about his conversion... I was just doing it for a little revenge, because he and Jiang Yu are the ones who have kept us from having a peaceful time lately!"

Zi Yao's pupils contracted slightly.

She wasn't stupid; after Lu Chen said that, she instantly understood most of it.

"I understand!"

……

The two stood on the platform.

"You already knew."

Lu Chen did not answer.

"When did it start?"

"When you had Jiang Yu deliver the Golden Soul Crystal to me."

"It doesn't make sense for a woman who despises me to suddenly send me such an expensive gift. And then, you know, it doesn't make sense for a Buddhist to come here and challenge me."

"But when you put these two things together, it makes perfect sense."

Lu Chen's voice was icy.

"In that case..."

When the Buddhist disciple made his move, Lu Chen sensed the wind.

It wasn't wind from spiritual energy; it was wind in a purely physical sense, created by a fist tearing through the air.

Lu Chen dodged, but the ground was blasted open, creating a crater about ten feet wide. Debris flew everywhere, grazing Lu Chen's face.

"You dodged pretty quickly."

The Buddhist disciple withdrew his fist and did not pursue.

"You don't need to test me, just show me your true abilities!"

"No, no, no, you think I'd try to convert you? That would be too easy on you!"

After saying that, his figure disappeared from the spot.

He wanted to beat this person to death, punch him repeatedly, until he was a bloody mess, until he knelt down and begged for mercy, until he regretted every action he had taken and every word he had uttered that day.

Lu Chen dodged to the side.

The Buddha's fist grazed past his clothes, but Lu Chen did not retreat. Instead, he used the momentum of his side turn to spin around and slapped the back of the Buddha's neck.

The latter hurriedly returned to defend, but was still repelled by Lu Chen.

"You learned Golden Lion Fighting?"

"Jiang Yu taught me, the kind that teaches you step by step."

"You son of a bitch!"

The Buddhist disciple's punches suddenly accelerated, each punch imbued with the blessing of Buddhist light, landing with every blow, but he was still unable to harm Lu Chen.

Because Jiang Yu gave him the cultivation technique without holding anything back, Lu Chen practiced diligently, and after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, he mastered the martial arts technique.

Therefore, the two were taught by the same master and could not break each other's moves.

"Since you can't get close, then come and experience my Buddhist teachings!"

After the Buddhist disciple finished speaking, he took out the Buddhist golden alms bowl and slammed it down on Lu Chen!

In an instant, Lu Chen felt as if he were enveloped by the purple-gold bowl, and everything went black before his eyes, so he could not see anything.

But he wasn't flustered at all.

Instead, he continued to use other Buddhist techniques in his own way.

With techniques like Vajra Mountain-Shattering Kick, Golden Lion Strike, and Eight Extremes Collapse, combined with his sure-hit strike, he was directly taken away and also injured the Buddhist disciple!

What troubled the Buddhist disciple even more was that every time Lu Chen used a Buddhist martial art, he would say that Jiang Yu had taught him this technique in bed.

The Buddhist disciple's defenses were completely breached, and his attacks became chaotic. Lu Chen seized the opportunity and used many of the Taoist techniques given to him by Lin Tian, ​​combined with a single, decisive strike, which caused the Buddhist disciple to suffer considerable injuries!

Finally, he couldn't hold back any longer. Instead of trying to kill Lu Chen, he chose to convert him.

However, Lu Chen had long taken this move very seriously and never gave him a chance to get close. Instead, he used Taoist magic to harass the Buddhist disciple from a distance, which made him even more uncomfortable.

Because no matter what, he couldn't escape Lu Chen's attack!

"If you admit defeat now and give me some resources, we can still talk. Otherwise, Jiangyu will atone for your sins!"

Feeling confident of victory, Lu Chen began negotiating with the Buddhist disciple.

But the Buddhist disciple gave a strange smile.

"You've learned very well, knowing the weaknesses of all my moves, but you've overlooked one thing..."

The Buddhist disciple raised his hand, wiped the blood from his chest, and smeared the blood on his forehead.

Then, he put his hands together and recited a Buddhist chant.

The moment the Buddhist chant ended, Lu Chen felt the Buddhist light surrounding his nascent soul suddenly brighten.

That wasn't initiated by him, but by the Buddha's disciple!

That layer of Buddha's light transformed from a protective shield into a bridge connecting him and the Buddha's disciple. The Buddha's disciple's power of salvation invaded his sea of ​​consciousness along the Buddha's light, attacking his soul!