Jia Ye and Wang Bodhisattva returned to the Great Thunderclap Monastery of the Sacred Mountain.
After seeing Buddha, Jia Ye lowered his head in shame and said with hands clasped together, "Disciple has failed the heavy trust; please, Buddha, punish me."
The monks within Mahavira Hall were no longer of varied expressions as before, and what was previously an air of tranquility had now turned into silence, the grand hall utterly quiet.
Ever since the Peach Garden was destroyed and the Buddha Sect gained nothing at the Peach Festival, the monks had been worrying about how to overcome the three calamities and five disasters.
Though Buddha had alleviated their concerns at the time, the problem still persisted.
In recent years, due to the widespread construction of Buddhist monasteries in the Taoist Southern Jambudvipa, they had received increasing faith and merit from the Human Race; the benefits were obvious.
