"This is an Upper Grade Forbidden Artifact Fragment. With it, you should be able to obtain Lamp Burning's Sea of True Essence. Go quickly and return at once."
The clone's very purpose was to witness this so-called Buddha of Lamp Burning. Regardless of whether Lamp Burning was real or fake, its task was simply to ascertain the truth.
A Gradeless Buddhist Shrine could only be formed from a Sea of True Essence. The fact that someone possessing one could still move freely within the Joyful Shrine Association further confirmed Hai Shu's suspicions.
If he could obtain the True Essence and transform his Demon Barrier, perhaps attaining Buddhahood would be within reach. Even if this karmic connection meant taking the worldly blessings left behind by a True Buddha, it was what he, as a Bodhisattva of Great Virtue Temple, was meant to do.
This was all for the sake of Great Virtue Temple.
