The False Reincarnation, the True Buddha Qiao Ling

North of Xingzhou City stood a grand estate more luxurious than those around it. Above its gates hung a plaque bearing two gilded characters: Lin Residence.

The Lin Residence was bustling with excitement. Friends and relatives had gathered, all dignitaries and nobles, to celebrate the birth of a Qilin Child in the Lin family.

Especially since the birth had been accompanied by strange phenomena, its fame had spread far and wide. Everyone said a Buddha had descended from heaven and that he would surely become a Buddha Ancestor in the future.

With such a Qilin Child, the Lin Residence would surely rise like the midday sun and ascend to even greater heights.

Naturally, the friends and relatives had come to build connections and establish goodwill in advance.

Aside from the many guests, even the prefect of Xingzhou had personally come bearing gifts and congratulations, giving the Lin Residence tremendous face.

Just as the guests were drinking and exchanging toasts, a group of figures clad in black robes suddenly appeared.

Without a word, they launched into a massacre and seized the Qilin Child of the Lin Residence.

Inside the birthing chamber, the child's mother was resting after childbirth. Hearing the baby cry, she rose and opened the door.

The sight outside was one of bodies strewn everywhere. She let out a shrill scream.

Then an attack struck her neck, and the child's mother was beheaded.

Seeing that no one remained alive, the black-robed figures vanished with the wailing child in their arms.

Not long after, loud knocking sounded outside the estate gates.

Sun Wukong and his group arrived.

But after waiting a long while without any response, they thought of something and immediately flashed inside.

"Alas... we came too late!" Xuanzang shook his head and sighed at the corpses around them.