130: True or False

“Hehehe, what a monk who doesn't know how to cherish and protect women… How could you lay a hand on someone with my beauty?!”

Lunar Star Lord wiped her nosebleed with her sleeve, her eyes filled with hatred as she looked at Tang Ku, gritting her teeth as if she wanted to devour him alive.

“It’s not that I, this monk, don’t know how to cherish and protect women, but rather that women like you are truly not very pitiable!” Tang Ku withdrew his Clone and slowly approached, saying, “Do you know? Actually, I’ve always viewed your Heavenly Court as righteous, after all, during the journey to the west, many of you contributed a lot, and you even helped subdue the Jade Rabbit Spirit!”

“Since you know, why are you interfering with my affairs? Don’t you even understand gratitude?”

Lunar Star Lord involuntarily floated backward; she had been terrified by Tang Ku’s punch.

“My not taking your life is already considered repayment!”

Tang Ku looked down from above, a hint of disdain in his eyes, saying, “You came to this Western Liang Women’s Kingdom merely to steal their Luck, using it to restore your True Buddha form, isn’t that right? But if you do that, the entire Western Liang Women’s Kingdom will become a dead land, all living beings will turn into ownerless souls, and eventually vanish into thin air. Don’t you, an Immortal, know this?

Hehe, don’t pretend to be so noble. When you helped us subdue the Jade Rabbit before, I had nothing to be grateful for, because that was just you making up for your own mistakes; it had nothing to do with us! Also, after seeing what happened in the Chechi Kingdom, I am even more certain that you Immortals and gods might have some other unspeakable secrets! In the end, you are nothing but a group of selfish and hypocritical fellows.”

Lunar Star Lord’s heart grew colder. She knew that although Tang Sanzang’s temperament had changed a lot, the perseverance in his character would never change. Since he had discovered a hint of strangeness, he would definitely investigate to the end.

“No, I must return quickly and inform him about this matter with Tang Sanzang…”

Thinking of this, her eyes involuntarily darted around, sweeping over the city below, and she narrowed her eyes slightly, saying, “So that’s how it is, hehe, you monk, I even said you didn’t know how to cherish and protect women. I truly misjudged you. Are you cherishing the common people of this entire city, or the Queen of the Western Liang Women’s Kingdom?”

Tang Ku frowned slightly and said, “Is there a difference? If the Queen is harmed by your despicable methods, the suffering will still fall upon the common people of this Western Liang Women’s Kingdom!”

“Hahahahaha… How ridiculous!” Lunar Star Lord waved her hand, and a black mist appeared above her right palm, continuously swirling and compressing. She sneered, “Do you know, when you call us Immortals selfish and hypocritical, you are actually talking about yourself, but you never thought that Buddha of Sandalwood Merit of the Buddhist Realm would also be moved by worldly desires!”

Tang Ku frowned slightly: “Nonsense!”

“Hehe, isn’t it?”

The black Qi mass in her hand suddenly compressed to the extreme, turning into a palm-sized sphere, crystal clear, like a pearl.

She smiled slightly: “Do you think, if this pearl falls into the imperial palace, your delicate and beautiful Queen will not perish from it?”

Before Tang Ku could speak, the pearl had already rolled from her hand and was falling towards the direction of the imperial palace on the ground.

“No…”

Tang Ku was about to move, but he saw that the pearl had already disappeared. With his naked eye, the black pearl was moving so fast that he couldn't even see it clearly, and it actually went directly through the roof of the imperial palace and entered it.

“Hehe, don’t be surprised. This ‘Yin Pill’ is formed from Yin Qi. Although it looks solid, it’s not a physical entity, which is why its speed is so fast, and it can pass through any object without leaving a trace!”

Lunar Star Lord chuckled coldly: “Look at your conflicted and anxious expression. You really want to save her? Hehe, but it’s already too late…”

Suddenly, countless screams came from within the imperial palace’s inner courtyard, followed by a continuous black mist overflowing from the palace. In Tang Ku’s line of sight, the Queen of the Daughter’s Country rushed out of the gate, her luxurious golden robes already turned pitch black. Her face continuously twitched and contracted, becoming a gaunt, shriveled face, and even her eyes turned into dark hollows, making her look like a living skeleton.

Coincidentally, throughout the entire imperial palace, wails of sorrow rose everywhere. All the maids, generals, civil and military officials, or any living entity, including trees, all died one after another, like an extremely brutal plague that instantly killed everyone, and the black mist was continuously overflowing from the imperial palace, spreading towards the entire city.

“Hehe, hahaha, ah hahaha… You monk, if you hadn’t driven me out, if you had safely allowed me to stay in the imperial palace, none of this would have happened. All of this is the evil derived from your selfish thoughts. You want to protect that Queen, you want to protect the Western Liang Women’s Kingdom, but this is merely your selfish thoughts at play. You… can’t protect anyone! Just spend the rest of your life in regret and self-reproach. I’m leaving now… Hahaha… Uh…”

Just as her body was continuously fading and slowly disappearing, a strong and powerful hand had already clasped her delicate neck, and was tightening its grip.

A faint Buddha Power enveloped her entire body, rendering her immobile.

“Indeed, I was moved by worldly desires!” Tang Ku looked into her eyes with a cold expression, “But you said three things wrong!”

“Firstly, my worldly desires were not moved for a specific person, but for the entire world!”

Tang Ku said in a deep voice, “Whatever actions you take that will have any adverse effects on the Human Realm, I, Tang Sanzang, swear that I will fight you to the end!”

“Secondly, I am not Buddha of Sandalwood Merit now. My Buddha title is Guangdu Xin Buddha. And I am the only True Buddha in the entire Buddhist Realm. If I wish, I can now change the Buddhist doctrines. Therefore, being moved by worldly desires does not necessarily mean one cannot be a Buddha!”

Tang Ku’s expression turned cold: “Thirdly, will the Daughter’s Country be destroyed by your tiny ‘Yin Pill’? Then you truly underestimate my sermon in this Western Liang Women’s Kingdom. Buddha Power has already permeated the entire country. In your prime, perhaps you could have done it, but with your current half-baked strength, hehe, you can only perform a similar illusion!”

Lunar Star Lord’s heart stirred, and she said with difficulty: “You… how could you… discover…”

“Next time, make your illusions more realistic!”

Tang Ku sneered, “Even if you’re deceiving people, you should be more professional. For example, if you want me to believe that everything in front of me is real, you only need to display the sounds of screams… There’s absolutely no need to directly project what happened in the imperial palace into my pupils!”