One Better Than Ten

A boundless, yellowish earth that stretched as far as the eye could see.

No green trees, grass, or flowers were visible; there were only withered yellow leaf-grass, dried-up riverbeds everywhere, and the bare trunks of dead giant trees.

There were basically no traces of human habitation within a radius of a thousand miles.

This could be said to be a place where almost no one lived.

At this moment,

a group of people was traveling from afar.

They were a party consisting of four individuals and one horse.

Leading the way and clearing the path was a hairy-faced monkey with a pointed, thunder-god mouth, wearing a yellow monk's robe on his upper body and a tiger-skin skirt around his waist.

This was none other than Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven who had wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Court five hundred years ago.

After Sun Wukong had been suppressed under Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, he finally waited for Tang Xuanzang, who was on a pilgrimage to the West. Tang Xuanzang removed the seal on Five Finger Mountain for Sun Wukong, obliging Sun Wukong to protect Tang Sanzang on the journey to the Western Heaven to retrieve the scriptures.

Along the way, Sun Wukong had successively encountered the West Sea Dragon Palace's Third Prince, Little White Dragon, and Zhu Bajie, whose previous incarnation was Marshal Tianpeng.

Not long ago, they had even crossed the Moving Sands River and found the final member of the scripture-retrieval party, Sha Wujing.

Sha Wujing's previous incarnation was the Curtain-Rolling General of the Heavenly Court.

After the scripture-retrieval party traveled a hundred miles past the Moving Sands River, they suddenly entered a flatland area.

Walking through such flat terrain was naturally much more relaxing than traveling along rugged mountain paths.

However,