"You killed our master! Die!"

Squelch!

Clang!

Squelch!

Shen Cong shook his head. The two young monks had been brainwashed too deeply. They would not cooperate at all, and they came at him with a blade and a gun, so all Shen Cong could do was kill them.

"Didn't get anything useful out of that. Looks like an organization built on religion puts no thought at all into developing technology. I wonder whether Li Siran and the others are still working on technology, and whether they have anything worth having."

Shen Cong called the hidden Yellow Great-Immortal over and set out for the Firestarter Spirit again.

"The Jingang Art's Buddha-Land on Earth has some crazy monks. If I want less trouble, I should find myself a collaborator, have him call Li Siran and the rest out, and take the people away directly... There are plenty of monks around the Firestarter Spirit working the natural carrier vehicles. Hopefully some of them aren't brainwashed too badly."

"If not, I'll have to do it myself."

Two minutes later.

He reached the Firestarter Spirit, and the moment Yellow Great-Immortal appeared the Firestarter Spirit reacted violently. This Firestarter Spirit had mimicked the shape of a mantis, and standing upright it cut an imposing figure.

But the monks around the Firestarter Spirit worked their natural carrier vehicles and put out an Activity wave like Cicada Language, and the Firestarter Spirit settled. Then one of the monks shouted, "Who are you? This is the Jingang Art's Buddha-Land on Earth's ground. Leave at once or you're asking to die!"

"Yellow Great-Immortal, pin the Firestarter Spirit down first. Once I've bored inside, hold this crowd of monks. Anyone who runs, kill them."

He gave Yellow Great-Immortal its instructions in Siberian weasel–Cicada Language.

Then Shen Cong said it again in plain Mandarin. "Yellow Great-Immortal, any monk who runs, kill him!" That part was for the monks, so they would not bolt the moment things turned against them.

Five minutes later.

A dozen-odd monks stared, eyes wide, at the "Vajrayaksa Wisdom King" lying where it had fallen, and at Shen Cong…