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As it turned out, the abbot had accused White River Temple of poisoning his food and plotting to inject mercury into his body following his death. Not only that, he also revealed the many sins committed by the monks of White River Temple, totalling six major crimes, including scamming the wealthy women of the capital city, who paid the temple exorbitant sums of money in exchange for fertility.
This was such a shocking case that it alerted even the emperor of Southern Garden Nation, who ordered for an exhaustive investigation to be launched. The outcome of the investigation was that most of White River Temple's three hundred monks were imprisoned, while the rest were banished from the capital city and forbidden from ever becoming monks again.
The other three major temples remained largely unaffected thanks to their deep-rooted foundations, but many of the smaller temples were adversely affected by this controversy. For example, this Heart Manifestation Temple that was close to Champion Scholar Alley had been receiving far fewer visitors of late.
The abbot of Heart Manifestation Temple was a tall and benevolent-looking old monk who spoke with a strong regional dialect. Even though he had been living in the capital city for thirty years, he had never changed his dialect, nor did he like to lecture people about how profound and amazing Buddhism was.
Instead, he mostly chatted with others about mundane subjects, and whenever Chen Ping'an spoke to the abbot, he always found the old monk very difficult to understand. Despite this, Chen Ping'an had a very good impression of the abbot, and he could see that the old monk was a cultivator of the Lower Five Tiers, but didn't say anything about it.
Chen Ping'an left the alley and made his way to Heart Manifestation Temple, where he planned to practice his standing meditation.
It was only a one-kilometer...
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