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“I would not dare to hide this from you, Sakyamuni.”
Joy Bodhisattva bowed and said calmly, “I trust in your acuity!”
“So, you guessed my plan?” Again, Myriad Shadows did not give her a straight answer.
“I have. After I heard everything from Cai Le and experimented a little with the Blissful Spring, I more or less figured out that the poison is the Burning Heart. From that point onward, I realized what plans you have for my Buddhist Hall of Joy and planned accordingly,” Joy Bodhisattva answered.
“The Burning Heart is an ancient poison that few people know about. How did you know about it?” Myriad Shadows pressed.
Joy Bodhisattva gave him a half-truth. “I once heard it from my master, Sakyamuni. However, he only told me what it was and how to suppress it. He did not know how to cure it either.”
She knew that the Burning Heart was incurable, of course. The reason she said this was to trick Myriad Shadows into thinking that her knowledge was cursory and believing that she wouldn’t expose him.
Besides that, half-truths were generally more...
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