Chapter 528

That year, Zixiu set a wicked fire at Jincan Temple, nearly taking the life of Abbot Faxin. After the incident, Fang Yi was thrown into the police station's jail as a suspect. Later, a tonsured monk in the temple named Zhitong was universally recognized as the true murderer. He was found having committed suicide out of fear of punishment in his meditation room, leaving behind a suicide note that confessed fully to his crimes. With both human and physical evidence present, everything seemed to have come to light, and the truth was fully revealed; the case was thus closed. Taking advantage of this momentum, Zixiu smoothly claimed the mantle and effortlessly became the new abbot of Jincan Temple.