My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

Li Chen's lips began to twitch violently.

"What about the lions?!" Li Chen gritted his teeth, pointing at the two ferocious beasts beside him. "Their names don't have the word 'cat' in them!"

"Oh dear, Brother Sixteen, have you forgotten?"

Sizi looked at him with a disappointed expression, pointing to the classification outline in the book.

"You wrote it very clearly here yourself."

Tigers, lions, and leopards all belong to the 'feline' family!

"Since they're all felines, rounding down, they're all big cats! Joining our Meow Cat Cult is perfectly reasonable and in accordance with the rules!"

boom!

Li Chen felt as if a million mythical beasts were galloping through his mind.

He looked at the popular science book he had casually written down back then.

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Then look at this group of top-tier demons in front of me, who were forcibly incorporated into the Meow Meow Cult simply because they are "feline" and have "cat in their names".

He was actually taken in by a five-year-old girl.

He used his own book to refute their arguments until they were speechless!

"Okay... whatever makes you happy."

Li Chen took a deep breath and waved his hand weakly.

He started mentally ranting and raving.

Of the Holy Fire Meow Meow Cult of the Great Tang Dynasty, including the leader, I guess only Fatty Four is a real cat, right?

Oh, wait, that's not right.

We might also include the few cat-eared girls we recruited when we first started the Holy Flame Meow Cult.

The art style of this sect is absolutely out of place!

"Alright, alright, let's get going!"

Sizi put away the book and happily put the demons back into her pink spatial bag.

Only Fatty Four remained, perched on top of her head.

Li Chen straightened his blue robe.

Originally, he planned to fly directly on his sword or tear through space to reach the core city where humans gathered in this small world.

But he was just about to form a hand seal.

Sizi grabbed the hem of his clothes.

The little girl looked around at the lush primeval forest, her big eyes filled with curiosity.

"Sixteenth Brother, the Crown Prince said that when you go out to play, you should stop and look at the scenery along the way to make it a real trip."

"Let's not fly there, okay? Let's walk!"

"I want to see if there are any fun fruits or small animals here!"

Looking at my sister's expectant eyes.

Li Chen sighed.

"Okay, we'll go with your suggestion today. Let's treat it as a hiking trip."

In any case, under the coverage of his mid-stage Nascent Soul divine sense, every blade of grass and every tree within a radius of hundreds of miles was clearly visible, and there was no danger at all.

The brother and sister held hands.

We walked slowly along a moss-covered forest path toward the human town beyond the forest.

Half a day later.

A vast, gray city, exuding an ancient and weathered aura, came into Li Chen and Si Zi's sight.

The city wall is not high and is made of rough bluestone.

Above the city gate are three large, somewhat weathered Sanskrit characters.

Li Chen scanned it with his divine sense, and the translation should be "City of Compassion".

however.

Despite the city's reputation for "compassion," the atmosphere at its gates was unusually oppressive.

Several city guards dressed in coarse cloth were wielding spears and shoving and cursing at a few refugees who wanted to enter the city.

Inside the city gate.

You can vaguely see Buddhist monks wearing yellow robes everywhere on the streets.

The air was filled with a strong, almost suffocating, sandalwood scent.

"As expected, this is the sphere of influence ruled by the Buddhist Kingdom."

Li Chen narrowed his eyes, a playful glint in them.

"Let's go in and see what these bald monks are up to."

Li Chen, leading the ox, swaggered toward the city gate.

Although their clothes were not luxurious, their clean clothes and fair skin stood out conspicuously among the sallow-faced and emaciated people around them.

"stop!"

As soon as they reached the city gate, two rusty steel spears crossed in front of them.

A guard with a fierce face stepped forward.

He looked Li Chen and Si Zi up and down.

The guards frowned deeply, especially when they saw the thick, black hair on their heads.

Who are you?

The guard demanded in an unfriendly tone.

"Judging from your attire, you don't seem to be local believers. What are you doing in Mercy City?"

Li Chen stopped in his tracks.

He was not intimidated at all by the guards' fierce appearance.

Instead, he curled his lips into a smile, raised one hand in front of his chest, and made a very standard Buddhist hand gesture that was full of charlatan-like air.

"Amitabha."

Li Chen lowered his head slightly, his voice was loud and clear, and his appearance was solemn.

"Greetings to the two benefactors."

"This humble monk comes from the Great Tang Dynasty in the East, and is a traveler on his way to the Western Paradise to worship Buddha and seek scriptures."

"Passing by this place, I saw that it was getting late, so I came to ask for alms and ask to stay the night."

Upon hearing the words "Eastern Land of Great Tang," the two guards were visibly taken aback.

People from such a remote little world had never even heard of the Tang Dynasty.

But upon hearing the words "praying to Buddha and seeking scriptures," the guard's expression softened slightly.

In this land, disrespecting Buddha is a grave sin punishable by being tied to a wooden frame and burned at the stake.

"Going to the Western Paradise to seek Buddhist scriptures?"

The burly guard stared suspiciously at Li Chen's head.

"Since you are Buddhists, why don't you shave your heads? Your full heads of black hair are a great disrespect to Buddha!"

Li Chen remained calm and composed, speaking fluently without batting an eye.

"You are unaware of the truth, benefactor."

"This humble monk practices Buddhism with his hair still intact. His heart is filled with Buddha; why should he care about these three thousand strands of hair?"

"When this humble monk obtains the true scriptures and attains enlightenment, he will naturally be ordained and receive the precepts."

This rambling, nonsensical talk completely fooled the two guards, who were not very well-educated.

"I see, you do have some talent."

The burly guard nodded, put away his spear, and took out a tattered register.

"Since you are a monk, then please register."

"What's your name? What's your Buddhist name?"

Li Chen clasped his hands together, his expression one of utmost piety.

He uttered two words in a very serious tone:

"I don't know."

The guard paused for a moment, his hand holding the calligraphy brush still.

"Don't know? What do you mean you don't know?"

The guard thought Li Chen hadn't heard him clearly, so he raised his voice and repeated it.

"I'm asking you, what's your Buddhist name?!"

Li Chen still clasped his hands together, his eyes clear as water.

"I don't know."

The guard's face instantly darkened, and a flash of anger appeared in his eyes.

He turned his head and looked at Si Zi, who was standing next to him with his mouth stuffed with spiritual fruit and his cheeks bulging.

"You little monk!"

The guard pointed at the rhinoceros and shouted irritably.

"He's mentally ill and doesn't know his Dharma name. What about you? What's your Dharma name?!"

Sizi swallowed the fruit in his mouth.

The little girl's big eyes darted around, and she imitated what the other girl did.

She also imitated Li Chen, trying her best to put her two chubby little hands together in front of her chest.

Her voice was soft and childlike, yet firm and resolute:

"I won't tell."