On the Ark.

Before he could finish speaking, Master Buxing clutched his chest and collapsed, accompanied by the heart-wrenching screams of the two monks.

"master!"

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Chapter 527 Lin Ye, a young girl, says (First update)

To be honest, when Master Buxing collapsed, Lin Ye's first thought was that he was trying to scam someone. After all, how could a perfectly good Vajra Pestle break so easily?

He's not some kind of demon.

"Master, Master, wake up!"

"Master, please don't abandon us!"

Master Bu Xing's two apprentices, Ah San and Ah Si, kept shaking his body, as if trying to wake him up. This made Warfarin, who was standing nearby, unable to bear it any longer. She stepped forward and said, "Do you want this old man to die even faster? Move aside and let me take a look. I'm a doctor."

Warfarin went over to check on the cloth shop master's condition, and then exclaimed in surprise.

"Huh, he actually passed out."

One sentence made Lin Ye feel awkward.

"Dr. Lin," Grani asked in an incredulous tone, "how did you do that?"

The Iron-Eating Beast also went to the corner and picked up the two pieces of the Vajra Pestle. He held them in his hands, weighed them, and felt them. He said in surprise, "This is genuine copper. Yet you were able to break it in two. You've kept it hidden!"

Lin Ye said with a wry smile, "How could I have that much strength? I just touched it casually, and before I even had a chance to feel it, it broke. What could I do? Maybe the stick wasn't very good quality."

At this moment, Master Buxing's two disciples couldn't sit still any longer. They immediately jumped up, pointed at Lin Ye's nose, and said, "Look at what you're saying! How could the Vajra Pestle have quality problems?! This is the divine weapon of Master Fubo, it can be said to be our abbot's lifeline! Not only did you break our abbot's lifeline, but you also said it was of poor quality... How despicable! You will be punished."

Lin Ye felt like he had been unfairly labeled.

How did his manhood even come into the picture?! He just accidentally broke a stick, how did that get linked to his manhood? That's such a disgusting way to put it.

Lin Ye couldn't stand it anymore and took two steps forward: "It's no big deal, let me diagnose your master."

"You're a doctor too?"

Warfarin said, "He's a veterinarian."

"You wretched creature, stay away from my master!"

Lin Ye had no choice but to retreat, and then gave Warfarin an angry look, but unfortunately Warfarin ignored it.

At this moment, Lin Ye noticed that the broken Vajra Pestle had been transferred from the Iron-Eating Beast's hand to Messiah's. Recalling how Messiah and Skadi had previously stared at the Vajra Pestle, Lin Ye thought that they might know something, so he went over to ask them what was going on.

No sooner had he gone over than Messiah laughed and said, "You really know how to get into trouble, Lin Ye."

Lin Ye's heart sank: "What do you mean?"

“I know what you’re thinking,” Messiah said. “This so-called ‘Vajra’ is no ordinary object.”

The Iron-Eating Beast said, "Of course it's not ordinary. It's been here for so long, it's practically an antique. Mr. Lin Ye, have you brought enough money for compensation? It's not just this stick, but also the abbot's medical expenses."

"Why are you arguing?" Lin Ye said irritably. "Nobody wanted this to happen. I really didn't do anything. Who knew this stick would just break like that? That cloth shop master certainly didn't know either. Besides, I only touched it with his permission, okay?"

“I also find it a bit strange,” said the Iron-Eating Beast. “Never mind, I’ll go check on the abbot’s condition. I hope no one dies; I don’t want to make headlines like this.”

"He should be fine, Warfarin is there." Lin Ye's words were actually quite unsure.

“I’ll go take a look too. I know some first aid techniques!” Grani volunteered. After all, he was a Victorian mounted police officer and was quite helpful.

With the Iron-Eating Beast and Grani gone, only Lin Ye, Messiah, and Skadi remained, so there was no need to hold back when it came to what they said.

Lin Ye asked Messiah directly, "You just said this stick is unusual, could it be...?"

“Hmm.” Messiah shook the vajra in his hand and said, “I sensed a trace of residual divine power on it.”

"Remnants...remaining divine power?" Lin Ye's mouth dropped open slightly. "Is this Vajra Pestle the real thing?"

“Most likely.” Messiah nodded, then looked at Skadi. “You can sense it too, right? The wording might be slightly different, but the feeling is probably there.”

Lin Ye looked nervously at Skadi, who slowly nodded.

"It's actually true..." Lin Ye didn't know what to say. "Then the Master Fubo is real too? And the Nian beast suppressed at the foot of this mountain is real too?"

“I don’t know,” Messiah shook his head and said, “I can’t sense that many things right now. But judging from the little bit of divine power stored in this Vajra Pestle, it shouldn’t be able to seal that kind of powerful creature that exists in legends.”

"You mean, the Nian beast is dead?"

“I don’t know about that,” Messiah shrugged. “I don’t know anything about this place. I’m just saying that this Vajra Pestle can no longer seal anything. That legendary Nian Beast either broke free of its seal long ago and is no longer here, or it’s already dead.”

Messiah's words relieved Lin Ye slightly; after all, he was a true god, and his words were quite reliable.

"Then why did this stick suddenly break?" Lin Ye asked, voicing his biggest question. "I didn't do anything, and I didn't experience the feeling Grani was talking about."

“That’s simple,” Messiah said. “Weapons with divine power recognize their users. When they encounter someone they don’t approve of, the artifact itself will react with rejection. You should know this very well, right? [Maple] is still with you.”

Lin Ye recalled the scene where Chen was injured by [Maple] and said, "You mean, whether it's the abbot or Grani, the strange feeling they experienced from the Vajra Pestle was a rejection reaction from the Vajra Pestle towards them?"

“Yes, this rejection reaction was originally meant to harm people, but the divine power on it is too diluted to cause harm. It can only give the wielder a feeling similar to an electric shock,” Messiah said. “As for you, the Vajra Pestle did not reject you; on the contrary, it likes you very much.”

"You like me a lot?" Lin Ye was very puzzled. "How is that possible? If you like me a lot, how could you have broken up with me?"

"It's very simple," Messiah said calmly. "An old man who has lived to be a hundred years old and has never had sex suddenly sees a naked, beautiful young girl flirting with him. In his excitement, he might accidentally break his back. Isn't that a perfectly normal thing?"

Lin Ye: "?"

Chapter 528 Year? I'll call it three times, will it dare to come out? (Second Update)

Lin Ye didn't know why the mighty God of Kalan would make such a vulgar analogy. While it was undeniably apt, Lin Ye, as the person directly involved, felt utterly uncomfortable. He coughed twice and then said to Messiah, "Next time, could you please use a more normal way of saying it?"

“Normal statement? Was what I just said not normal?” Messiah sighed. “Lin Ye, mating and reproduction are human instincts. Is there anything more normal than that? You can’t always look at things with a filthy eye. If you do, everything will seem filthy to you. Can’t you be a little more pure? You are, after all, the Holy Man of Kalan whom I personally appointed.”

Messiah's words made Lin Ye want to facepalm.

Forget it, why would he even consider debating with the Messiah? He's no match for him in any respect.

Lin Ye shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about that. Can you fix it?"

"How do you fix it? Do you just tape it back on?" Messiah said. "You think I'm all-powerful."

"After all, you are a god. Shouldn't a god be omnipotent?"

Messiah laughed: "Your flattery is really poor."

Helpless, Lin Ye could only look at Skadi.

Skadi shook her head: "I don't have any tape either."

Lin Ye: "..."

This is a difficult situation. If the cloth merchant wants him to pay compensation, such an old-fashioned item might bankrupt him.

Honestly, thinking about it carefully, whether it was the first time with Chixiao or the second time with Shengling, it seems that both tragedies were caused by his impulsive desire to touch them. Although it can't be considered a complete tragedy, this time it is a complete tragedy. Lin Ye really wanted to put on an expression like Kazuo and ask himself why he couldn't control his hands.

At this moment, Master Bu, who had just fainted from anger, slowly opened his eyes with Warfarin's help.

After regaining consciousness, he stared blankly at the temple's roof beams. After a long while, as if remembering something, he let out a wail.

"Brother Buju! I'm so sorry!" he lamented, reaching out as if trying to grasp something. "The Vajra Pestle has finally fallen into my hands! Ah!"

Tears streamed down his face.

His two apprentices also cried with him, and the scene was so heartbreaking that it brought tears to the eyes of everyone who heard it. Only Lin Ye felt guilty.

Warfarin stood up impatiently: "What are you crying for? You're not a child anymore. When I was your age, I had long forgotten how to write the word 'cry'."

One sentence was enough to shut up Master Clothworks and his two apprentices. The three of them looked up at Warfarin, who was standing beside them with her arms crossed, and thought she was joking. After all, Warfarin looked like she had just come of age or was still a minor. Who would have thought that she was already hundreds of years old, of a generation that even Master Clothworks should call her grandmother?

“Guarding the Vajra Pestle has been the mission of successive abbots of the Fubo Temple,” Master Buxing said. “From my senior brother, Master Buju, to me, it has been twenty years. I have guarded the Vajra Pestle for a full twenty years. For these twenty years, I have been extremely careful…”

"What do you mean by being careful? Isn't this broken stick of yours just letting whoever pays the most touch it?" Warfarin also mercilessly exposed the fabric shop master's arrogance. "Where did you get the idea of ​​being careful?"

The cloth merchant blushed instantly: "How can this be called a broken stick? How can it be that whoever pays the most can touch it? You little girl, don't slander people out of thin air... defame the stick's innocence."

“Where is your innocence? You old man… no, you little brat, have you forgotten what just happened?” Warfarin said. “You let all three of them touch you, how can you be innocent? Besides, you yourself said that any VIP who paid could touch this stick.”

Master Buxing was speechless for a moment, and after struggling for a long time, he could only stammer in defense: "You, you, what do you know? Fubo Temple also needs money to maintain it. Without money, the three of us monks cannot survive. Who will guard the Vajra Pestle?"

Master Buxing's disciple also said, "Yes. We didn't want this either. When the previous abbot was still alive, there were more than ten monks in the temple. But after that fake Fubo Temple was built down there, no one came to offer incense, and the monks gradually left. Master, we must think of a way to keep the temple going."

Iron-Eating Beast said thoughtfully, "No wonder you guys run promotional activities online every day."

“There’s nothing we can do about it,” Master Buxing sighed. “I didn’t want to either. The Vajra Pestle was left behind by Master Fubo; it’s a true divine artifact. If we hadn’t been desperate, how could we have allowed anyone else to touch it? But now, it’s the only thing our temple has to offer, and we can only use it to attract customers.”

As he spoke, Master Buxing's tears fell again.

"Brother Buju! I'm so sorry!"

Warfarin was very annoyed: "Can you please stop crying? Since you made this decision, you should have expected that it would be broken sooner or later."

"How is that possible!" Master Buxing's eyes widened. "This is the Vajra Pestle, a true divine artifact. How could it be so easily broken? To date, hundreds, if not dozens, of people have touched it, and it has never been damaged. Moreover, even if it were just an ordinary stick, it would still be made of genuine copper. How could it be destroyed by someone's bare hands?"

After he finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to Lin Ye.

Lin Ye was quite helpless. He couldn't bring up Messiah's earlier explanation, so he could only smile wryly and say, "I don't know what happened either. Nobody wants something like this to happen. But since it's already happened, let's think of a solution. Can I pay you compensation?"

Grani looked at Lin Ye and said, "Dr. Lin, what you're saying sounds like the words of an irresponsible scumbag."

Lin Ye glared at Grani, and Grani fell silent.

"Pay back?!" The cloth merchant's eyes widened in anger. "Is this something money can solve?"

"Then... I won't pay?"

"You dare! If you don't pay me back, I'll fight you to the death!"

"I can't pay you back, and I can't not pay you back either," Lin Ye said. "So what do you want me to do?"

"What should I do... I don't know what to do either." Master Buxing suddenly deflated like a punctured balloon. "No one has ever told me what to do after the Vajra Pestle breaks."

The Iron-Eating Beast said, "Let's buy another one. Anyway, no one else can tell the difference except you guys."

"Is this a matter of buying another one?" Master Buxing asked. "If the Vajra Pestle is broken, who else can suppress Nian?"

The Iron-Eating Beast chuckled and waved its hand: "You can only fool children with that kind of thing. It's pointless for adults to talk about it. Nian Beast? Where is there a Nian Beast? If I call it three times, would it dare to come out?"

Before he could finish speaking...