From the very beginning, Lord Lao had been looking in the wrong direction. Even if he were beaten to death, he would never have imagined that there was a place like the Worship Space, capable of shielding one from the Heavenly Dao's perception.
Even the Heavenly Dao could not detect the Worship Space, let alone Lord Lao's saint avatar.
If Lord Lao had known that Xiao Xie had not only stolen five of his treasures, but had also taken the chance to extort a gourdful of Nine Revolutions Golden Pills from him, who knew whether Lord Lao would have risked his life to fight Xiao Xie.
Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, another three or four years had passed since Wukong Clone and the others set out on the Journey to the West.
Ever since Wukong Clone had stolen Lord Lao's five treasures at Pingding Mountain, they had encountered quite a few demons on their journey west.
However, since none of those demons possessed any valuable treasures, Xiao Xie had not personally taken control of Wukong Clone. Wukong Clone had handled them all himself.
Over the past few years, Wukong Clone and his companions had successively gone through the rescue of the king in Wuji Kingdom, the battle against Red Boy at Fire Cloud Cave, the defeat of the Tuō Demon at Black River, the contest of magic and extermination of three demons in Chechi Kingdom, and the great battle against the Goldfish Demon at Tongtian River.
However, unlike in the original story, Lord Lao's furnace bricks had been taken directly by the Golden Crow Clone and refined into Flame Bricks, so Flame Mountain no longer existed.
And without Flame Mountain, Red Boy naturally never learned Samadhi True Fire. As a result, he was easily defeated