"..."
"World Honored One, what were you just saying?"
After a brief hesitation.
Guanyin asked this, somewhat stunned and uncertain.
And while asking.
She also secretly and carefully sensed everything around her.
Trying to find the "Your Excellency" the other party had mentioned.
But the latter half of his words—"I have arrived"—left her somewhat unable to understand.
Hadn't the other party been here all along?
Facing her question, Great Sun Tathagata Buddha did not answer directly. He merely calmly raised his head and gazed up at the boundless sky above.
There, at some unknown point, a bright spiral-shaped Blood Light had appeared. It lingered for a long time, yet had emerged without any warning.
Within it.
Guanyin, who had likewise raised her head to look over, saw countless blood red evil spirits—or perhaps resentful thoughts—and caught glimpses of countless things that flashed past so quickly she could not even see them clearly.
Yet they filled her heart with an inexplicable dread.
That feeling immediately made her inwardly shudder.
Unable to restrain herself, she asked the being beside her:
"May I ask, World Honored One, what kind of demon is that?"
Great Sun Tathagata Buddha's expression remained calm. Pressing his palms together, he replied:
"An Outer Realm Sky Demon."
"It may also be called the Heavenly Demon of Great Freedom."
Having said that, he slowly extended one palm and casually pushed forward through the air, sighing in an even tone:
"This Tang Sanzang ultimately has a bond of master and disciple with this identity of mine... I still have to intervene."
"And that wild monkey transformed from the Sky-Mending Stone has ultimately suffered a loss on this side. I cannot simply stand by and watch either..."
Hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Amid a scene where demonic qi soared into