"Ah?" Master Duanchen was confused, "Benefactor Lu, is your way of accumulating good deeds by bringing a group of people back with you?"

"This one practices the Joyful Zen."

"This one wants to commit suicide."

"This one knows the Hypnosis Technique…"

Lu Yang introduced each person’s background one by one, each worthy of mention. Just capturing them was no easy task, not something that could be summed up in a sentence or two.

When he got to the last one, Lu Yang gravely said, "Luckily, Old Meng and I felt that something significant would happen at the festival and were restless. We kept an eye on unusual activities in the city, and look, we found them all."

Listening, Master Duanchen broke out in a cold sweat. These people were all significant threats. If Benefactor Lu and Benefactor Meng had missed even one person, this Buddha Bathing Festival would have been doomed.

But it wasn’t his fault for the lack of preparation; these troublesome cultivators all acted covertly, and even increasing patrols wouldn’t have uncovered them.

"I wonder how you two benefactors managed to find these people, could you possibly teach me a technique or two?"

Lu Yang waved his hand modestly, "There’s no special technique, it’s just the protection of the Worldly Venerable."

Master Duanchen was moved by these words; indeed, that was the only possibility. Otherwise, even if they both had been using Spiritual Sense non-stop, it was impossible to find everyone.

"It seems both benefactors are individuals of profound fortune."

"Master, you are weary from dealing with these people, and I estimate the top eight are about to be chosen; it’s time for Old Meng and me to go to the scene," Lu Yang calculated the time and said.

Initially, after they captured the person releasing the zombie poison, they had quite a lot of time to play, but who could have expected there was a whole bunch of people waiting to be caught? After capturing them all and sending them back to Kaihuang Temple, the time was almost up.

"Indeed."

The moment Lu Yang stepped out of the temple gate, his vision darkened, and when he regained his sight, he was already near the arena.

"Old Lu, want to see how they are fighting?" Meng Jingzhou pointed to the bustling arena, quite interested.

Lu Yang’s eye twitched. No, during the festival, why had time reversed again? Could he not enjoy the festival properly?

"Don’t bother looking; their level is quite ordinary. The best among them are probably the cultivators ranked ninety-fifth and ninety-ninth on the earthly ranking," Lu Yang had already watched it once, knowing watching here would purely be a waste of time.

"What is an earthly ranking?"

Lu Yang held his forehead, having forgotten that the present Old Meng didn’t know what the earthly ranking meant: "It’s the ranking that Western Paradise Temple does for the cultivators of Buddha Country, divided into human, earthly, and heavenly rankings…"

"I see," Meng Jingzhou realized, not pondering too much, as this kind of information could be known with more research.

"But aren’t you curious about what level this earthly ranking is, Old Lu?" Meng Jingzhou was still very curious and chose to stay and watch.

On the platform, Huo Ying looked gravely at Fang Wudi, "Fang Wudi, I didn’t expect you to come too. I heard you are a Venerate innate physique, born with a Golden Dragon coiling into your body and becoming your birthmark…"

Meng Jingzhou watched excitedly for a while but soon grew disappointed: "Is this their capability? I could have beaten them both when I was at the Golden Core Stage."

"I told you, there’s nothing worth watching," Lu Yang said helplessly.

"Then how did you know that there would be earthly ranking cultivators appearing?" Meng Jingzhou was puzzled, as not even Kaihuang Temple knew who was participating in the competition; it was all registered on the spot.

"Of course I knew; I’ve lived through it all once."

"Lived through it all once, what do you mean?" Meng Jingzhou was particularly surprised.

Seeing Old Meng’s perplexed expression, Lu Yang took this opportunity to explain, as he hadn’t had the chance to explain about the Time Retrospection earlier.

"This dates back to when I first broke through to the Mid-stage of Transforming Spirit…"

Lu Yang explained everything from the beginning, recounting his experiences of the last half-year, leaving Meng Jingzhou baffled.

He had heard from the old ancestors that some Semi-Immortals could pause time, but this was the first time he’d heard of Time Retrospection.

Seeing Old Lu talk until he was parched didn’t seem like he was making it up.

"So it turns out, I didn’t expect Dao Fruit could even do something like this..." Meng Jingzhou nodded in sudden realization, then suddenly became perplexed.

"Hey, Old Lu, what were you saying earlier?"

Lu Yang: "..."

Darn, I forgot that the methods of Dao Fruit have forgetful properties, explained for half a day for nothing.

"Oh, it’s Master Lu, Master Meng." A familiar voice rang out, and Lu Yang knew without turning around that it was Tang Qiaoqiao and Cui Que’er.

"Masters, didn’t you say you were going to be judges on stage, why are you still here?"

"It’s not our turn yet." Lu Yang casually explained, not asking about Tang Chuanwu’s whereabouts like last time.

"Why is it just the two of you, where is that kid Chuanwu?" Meng Jingzhou asked on behalf of Lu Yang.

"Brother has gone with the boss to Lotus City next door to get supplies."

"Then, Miss Cui, be careful when you distribute porridge." Lu Yang advised.

Cui Que’er was surprised: "Master Lu, how did you know I was going to distribute porridge with dad?"

"Miss Cui, you forgot, you mentioned that your family goes to distribute porridge on the 5th, 15th, and 25th of every month, and today is May 15th."

"Can’t we distribute porridge one day later?" To Meng Jingzhou, today was supposed to be a day for great fun.

Lu Yang shook his head: "Of course not, doing good deeds today earns ten times the merit of ordinary days, it’s even more necessary to distribute porridge."

Cui Que’er became even more surprised: "Master Lu knows so much, I thought only us locals knew about this belief."

After splitting up from Cui Que’er and Tang Qiaoqiao, Meng Jingzhou encouraged Lu Yang: "Old Lu, shall we also go and earn some merit?"

"That’s easy." When it came to doing good deeds today, no one understood better than Lu Yang.

Lu Yang led Meng Jingzhou down the bustling streets when suddenly a man in a black cloak turned sharply, laughed maniacally, and confounding Meng Jingzhou.

"The chaos of Kaihuang City, it starts with you..."

"If the lines are the same, don’t bother saying it." Lu Yang stepped forward briskly, his large hand covered the face of the man in the black cloak, and with a clang, slammed him to the ground.

"Old Lu, he is..."

Lu Yang squatted down, took out the Soul Locking Rope, and tied up the man in the black cloak expertly, this time without even needing to perform a Soul Search.

"Don’t ask so much, I’m taking you to do good deeds."

"Ah? Oh."

Then the lascivious monk, the unobstructed cultivator, the insect cultivator...each was captured in turn, thanks to previous capture experience, this time Lu Yang was even more adept.

"Job well done, let’s deliver them all to Duan Chen..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Yang’s vision darkened, and he found himself near the arena again.

A moment later, five reincarnations had passed.

"Old Lu, do you want to see how they are fighting?" Meng Jingzhou pointed at the arena and said.

"Don’t bother looking, at best there will be two cultivators from the earth list."

"What’s the earth list?"

Lu Yang walked forward two steps and expertly patted the most vocal spectator on the outer edge.

"Come here, explain to him what the earth list is."