The Heaven's Mandate Sect?
Monk Hugo frowned slightly, seemingly having heard the name of this sect before.
But for a moment, he couldn't recall it.
And Quinn Ye, naturally, had never heard of it at all.
"The members of my Heaven's Mandate Sect know how to pry into Heaven's Secrets, divine good and ill fortune, and other such arts."
Ezra Yin (the old blind man) recounted everything about the Heaven's Mandate Sect in detail.
"Because of revealing too many of Heaven's Secrets, almost every generation of my Heaven's Mandate Sect is affected by the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. There are bound to be tribulations in our destinies."
"Take this old man, for example. My pair of eyes went blind after cultivating the Art of Prying into Heaven."
"My Junior Brother's right arm was also severed because of this."
Hearing up to here, Hugo suddenly remembered.
"The Heaven's Mandate Sect! This poor monk remembers now!"
Quinn Ye was startled by Hugo's sudden shout.
"Why are you yelling so loudly?"
He said to Hugo, somewhat annoyed.
Hugo was very embarrassed.
"Disturbing the Holy Son is truly a sin."
"Looking at you, you've also heard of the Heaven's Mandate Sect?" Quinn Ye asked, curling his lip.
Hugo nodded: "This poor monk has indeed heard of the Heaven's Mandate Sect. Five hundred years ago, in the Eastern Lands, a mysterious youth claiming to be an inheritor of the Heaven's Mandate Sect was summoned by the Lord of the Great Tang Empire."
"That mysterious youth once asserted that the Great Tang Empire could last for nine hundred and ninety-nine years. But if it wished to become a millennial empire, it still needed to survive a massive catastrophe."
"If it could not survive it, the Great Tang Empire would turn to ash overnight."
"Once it survived, the destiny of the Great Tang Empire would be incomparably prosperous, not declining for ten thousand years!"
"At that time, the Great Tang Empire had coincidentally just been established for nine hundred and ninety-nine years, leaving only ninety-nine years until it reached the millennium mark."
"At the time, no one believed what this youth said, and they expelled him from the Great Tang Empire."
"And what happened after that?" Quinn Ye pressed for details.
Hugo glanced at Ezra Yin and Arthur Chu; both of them remained silent.
So, Hugo continued to speak: "Later, after ninety-nine years passed, a catastrophe indeed befell the Great Tang Empire, and it almost caused the Great Tang to be annihilated."
"What kind of catastrophe?"
"Speaking of this catastrophe, it actually had some relation to my Buddhism."
Hugo's expression was somewhat complex.
"The Tang Emperor of that generation was an unparalleled hero of the mortal realm, leading the Great Tang's armies to conquer the east and subdue the west, conquering a glorious territory."
"But because of this, this Tang Emperor accumulated an extremely heavy burden of sins. In his later years, he suffered Qi Deviation, causing his karmic sins to erupt. Coincidentally, evildoers in the palace caused mischief, using evil arts to refine the Tang Emperor's sins into a demon, bringing chaos to the Tang Palace."
"The Tang Palace fell into great chaos. Coincidentally at this time, several small countries that had been conquered by the Great Tang also launched a rebellion, counter-attacking the Great Tang."
"With internal strife and external threats, the Great Tang was in imminent peril."
"Coincidentally at that time, a high monk of my Buddhism was right there in the Great Tang. It was this high monk who stepped forward and, with boundless Buddhist Dharma, suppressed that evil demon, allowing the Tang Emperor's life to be preserved."
"With the Tang Emperor safe and sound, those rebellions naturally couldn't succeed either and were suppressed one by one."
"Only then did the Great Tang survive the millennial catastrophe and step into the ranks of millennial empires."
Speaking up to here, Hugo put his palms together, his face full of reverence.
"That high monk is a role model for everyone in Buddhism, and has always been widely praised and chanted about throughout Buddhism."
Quinn Ye also felt a wave of emotion.
It seems Buddhism truly has a lot of Experts.
If there's a chance, I really should go pay a visit. I'll learn a trick or two then, and when I show off in front of Hugo and these monks, I'll look even more authentic.
"Since you two are inheritors of the Heaven's Mandate Sect, I imagine you also know this story this poor monk just told, right?" Hugo asked.
Ezra Yin let out a long sigh.
"The mysterious youth in the Master's story was precisely the Master of us two Senior and Junior Brothers."
As soon as these words came out, Hugo was greatly shocked.
"That mysterious youth was actually the Master of you two?"
Both Arthur Chu and Ezra Yin nodded.
Hugo was endlessly astonished.
"I didn't expect that you two are actually disciples of that person. It seems you two truly have an affinity with my Buddhism."
Quinn Ye blinked his eyes: "Then your Master should be around five or six hundred years old by now, right?"
"Our Master passed away almost a century ago," Arthur Chu said dejectedly.
Hugo felt a wave of pity: "To be unable to meet such a figure is truly a massive regret."
Ezra Yin smiled bitterly: "Our Master pried into countless Heaven's Secrets throughout his life, and because of this, he suffered the backlash of having his lifespan shortened. He was supposed to have a lifespan of a thousand years, but he passed away after only living for six hundred years."
"Is the Heaven's Mandate Sect only left with you two Senior and Junior Brothers?" Quinn Ye asked.
"Yes."
Quinn Ye looked at these two; one was blind, the other crippled.
Truly miserable.
If these two died too, then the Heaven's Mandate Sect would be directly cut off.
"The reason us Senior and Junior Brothers came here is actually because our Master performed a divination for my Junior Brother before he passed away."
Ezra Yin spoke of the reason why the two of them came here.
After hearing it, Quinn Ye and Hugo finally understood why these two wanted to go up the mountain.
It turned out it was to help Arthur Chu survive a wicked tribulation.
"The Buddhist Light of Cloud Mountain? This sounds like it refers to this very place," Hugo said thoughtfully.
Quinn Ye, however, was staring straight into the old blind man's eyes.
At the market, he hadn't paid close attention.
But looking at it now.
This old blind man's eyes didn't seem to be caused by external trauma.
"Old blind man, can you open your eyes?" Quinn Ye asked.
Ezra Yin was startled, not knowing why Quinn Ye would ask this.
However, he still opened his eyelids.
Revealing a pair of pale white eyeballs.
With one look, Quinn Ye couldn't help but reveal a look of 'so that's how it is'.
"This old man's pair of peepers have been blind for almost thirty years, I am long used to it," Ezra Yin said self-deprecatingly.
"Really? Then since you are used to it, I won't treat you then," Quinn Ye said casually.
Ezra Yin instantly froze.
Arthur Chu and Hugo all looked at Quinn Ye in disbelief.
"Holy Son, do you have a way to cure his eyes?" Hugo asked, very surprised.
Quinn Ye nodded: "I have a way, although I'm not entirely confident, but we can give it a try."
Ezra Yin instantly grew excited.
"I beg the Holy Son to take action and cure this old man's eyes!"
"If you can cure them, this old man is willing to serve as a beast of burden for the Holy Son, with no regrets or complaints!"
Arthur Chu also quickly pleaded: "I beg the Expert to treat my Senior Brother! Even if it cannot be cured, us Senior and Junior Brothers will be boundlessly grateful."
Quinn Ye was somewhat in a difficult position.
"But he himself said he's already used to it. If I cure him, what if he's not used to it later?"
Ezra Yin: "..."
Arthur Chu: "..."
Hugo: "..."
Put that way, it seems there's no problem with that logic either.
"Master, please don't tease this old gentleman anymore."
Finn Guo on the side couldn't watch this any longer.
Hearing Finn Guo speak up for him, Ezra Yin was incomparably excited.
Truly worthy of being the future Human Emperor of the Southern Wilderness, to be so kind and benevolent since childhood!