Fairy, return my flying sword to me

Chapter 172 Falling in love and killing each other
The Imperial Master was furious when he heard this. "Humph! I knew it! You'd come out after a trick! Are you afraid I'd get away? You're afraid I'd find out about something you're afraid to expose!"

"We're afraid to be seen in public? Why should we be afraid to be seen in public?" The abbot also became angry. "On the contrary, it's you, the Imperial Master, who is sneaking around all day long! We have been on guard against you for a long time!"

"Okay, okay! The bad guys are the first to complain!"

"Humph! You're the first one to complain among the villains! Which good guy would attack a Buddhist temple at night?"

Fairy Hongxia's face turned red.

The Imperial Master snorted coldly, "Humph! If that's the case, there's no point in saying more!"

"It's no use talking more!"

The two rolled up their sleeves and were about to start working, and Fairy Hongxia even released a cloud of red clouds.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Lin Jian sounded increasingly suspicious, and leaped forward to block the way. "Who among you is the villain?"

"He's a villain!"

"He's a villain!"

The Imperial Master looked at Lin Jian with dismay, "You're stupid! What villain would call themselves a bad guy? This old man is just trying to do bad things secretly. I think this spiritual liquid is either his disguise, or he has a trick up his sleeve that we haven't discovered yet."

"I'm a villain? I'm a villain?" The old monk was so angry that he laughed. "We are all united in this temple, dedicated to saving the world. You say we are villains? You say we are villains? Have you asked those believers who come here all day long? Could they all be actors we invited in?!"

"If you're not, then why am I?" The Imperial Master sneered. "I've been ruling over the Treasure Glaze Nation for decades, and no one in the country steals or locks their doors at night. This is all thanks to me, and you're calling me a villain?"

"Oh? Then how do you explain the extraordinary and bizarre incidents that have occurred across the country since last year? If it weren't for you, the Imperial Master, directing them, how could those evildoers have held back? As a result, the disciples we sent out often return empty-handed?"

"I'm manipulating this?" The Imperial Master was furious, pointing at his own nose and retorting, "I'm manipulating this? I was just wondering about your Minguang Temple! Why are your disciples always present wherever something happens? Buddhism's methods are different, they leave no trace. I haven't been able to catch you in all this time!"

"Handle? What handle can you get?" The abbot's eyes widened with anger. "You did it all, and now you want to find handle on us? The Imperial Master really has great authority!"

"Tingting! Tingting!" Lin Jian stopped the debate and stared at the abbot, asking sincerely, "You really haven't done anything against heaven and earth?"

The abbot chanted his Buddhist name, clasped his hands together, and said solemnly, "Our temple is dedicated to saving all sentient beings. We are united in purpose and have a clear conscience!"

Lin Jian turned back to look at the Imperial Master, "Then you..."

The Imperial Master blew his beard and glared, "You still doubt me?!"

"Okay." Lin Jian clapped his hands and said, "You are all good people, so who is the villain?"

"Wait! Is he a good person?" The Imperial Master and the Abbot seemed to have just realized what was happening. They looked at each other and asked in unison.

"emmmm" Lin Jian put his hands in his pockets and silently stepped aside.

Well... after all this fuss, it turns out to be a misunderstanding.

But the problem is, both sides are shooting in the void, so where is the target?

The abbot and the imperial preceptor began the second round of debate...

The first speaker of the affirmative team questioned, "You're a good person? Then why have you been so secretive lately? I've come here so many times and never seen you come clean with me. If you were really only refining these spiritual liquids for the benefit of the people, would I not support you?"

"Showdown? How do we showdown?" the first speaker of the opposing team raised an objection. "The Imperial Master's words were vague, and he's been gazing up and down our temple all day. Who knows what you're up to? Showing up with you? Wouldn't that just give you the opportunity to do something dirty?"

"I was vague? Then why don't you look for your own problems? Why wasn't I vague with others? Why wasn't I vague with my friend in the forest? Why was I vague with you? Look at what you did before! You can even refine this kind of spiritual liquid, and you actually told me that no one in your temple can refine the elixir, and asked me to go out and find an alchemist myself?! If you didn't deliberately deceive me, would I be suspicious of you?" "Then why don't you look for your own problems too?! At that time, your princess was in danger, and her life was at stake. It was such a critical situation! At a time like this, we asked you to trace the source, defeat the demon, and obtain that trace of the original demonic energy. You just kept delaying, and who knows what you were thinking?"

The abbot pointed at the Imperial Master, his hands trembling. "Especially later on, it was even more outrageous! He ignored the three nearby sects, and even Baicao Valley, which is famous for its alchemy, and instead traveled thousands of miles to the Zhengyang Sect's territory to seek out a young Taoist priest like Lin Xiaoyou, who is in the Foundation Establishment stage. What do you want to do? I'm asking you, what do you want to do? Aren't you deliberately seeking out 'one of your own', whose background I don't know, to plot something?"

“…” The Imperial Master froze for a moment.

Then I realized that silence is a taboo in a debate.

"What happened to you later?"

"Then what?!"

"You are a Nascent Soul cultivator! And those two Golden Core cultivators in your temple actually said they are not good at fighting! What's the difference between this and me saying that I only know how to use Palm Thunder?"

"What? The Imperial Master only knows how to use Palm Thunder?" The abbot was shocked.

The Imperial Master jumped up and down, "That was just a show for you!"

“But we are really…”

"..."

"Nah!" the Imperial Master cursed inwardly, then questioned, "What about these believers who come to worship on the mountain? How dare you say you didn't arrange this specifically? How could believers worship day after day?! They worship like this day after day?"

"And I made special arrangements? I don't have the time for that?" The abbot's lips turned pale with anger. "I toil away all day trying to keep this formation running. How could I possibly have the time to think about such trivial matters? What can I do if those believers want to come on their own? Am I supposed to make a rule saying they can come today and not tomorrow?!"

Once the seeds of suspicion are planted, no matter what you do, you will seem like a villain.

The Imperial Master and the Abbot love and hate each other, and the cause was decided when they started to suspect each other while investigating those extraordinary and evil events.

Lin Jian frowned and finally sorted out the context of what happened.

"So the culprits who initially committed crimes throughout the Bao Liuli Kingdom haven't been caught yet, right?"

"Ask him!" the first and second debaters shouted in unison again.

Seeing the same confused expressions of the two, Lin Jian felt a bad feeling in his heart.

Or is there something I overlooked?!
Coolness?

Where does that strange chill come from?

The unusual gathering of believers is also not right.

The Imperial Master is not the mastermind behind this, nor is the Abbot...

The abnormal behavior itself is the mastermind!
……

Outside the temple, calls were heard from the believers who had been guarding the mountain path all night.

"Masters of Mingguang Temple, has something happened in the temple?"

(End of this chapter)