The Minister of Personnel's hand, which was stroking his beard, suddenly froze. In his daze, he pulled out a tuft of beard, causing him to grimace in pain. He dared not cry out and endured the pain to send a message to an official in Present Village:

"Quickly investigate a Buddhist cultivator named Pudu."

After giving the order, the Minister of Personnel stuffed the pulled-out beard into his pocket, his brows furrowed, and his mood plummeted.

The title of Buddha, in the eyes of the world, was just a vague concept of a great Zen master, likely nonexistent, merely the imagination of those bald monks.