This was the biggest loss that Mister Sea had suffered, and he could not retrieve himself back from that.
Plus the Ming Emperor said that he had destined fate with Buddha, which deeply unsettled him because such person was already considered to be the Buddha of the world. Now that he made such statement, this might be a prophecy waiting to come true.
Mister Sea could not imagine himself being a bald monk, who was required to be disciplined, living with restrictions, whereas he wanted to live luxuriously, with countless concubines and unleash his lust.
With Mister Sea’s intelligence, he understood that this would be his hurdle. Even if Ming Emperor was not as good as the Buddha, so Mister Sea wanted to borrow the Buddha relics, understand the meaning within, overcome his own mental hurdle, to aid his breakthrough and solve this future disaster.
Mister Sea gradually turned calm and replied, "I would never believe in Buddhism".