After Flaming Mountain.
The Scripture Seeking Group had endured eighteen more trials before finally reaching the Lion-Camel Kingdom. Along the way, they had faced the Nine-Headed Insect, tree spirits, the Yellow Brow Great King, Sai Taisui, spider spirits, and the Centipede Spirit.
The easiest had been the tree spirits of Thorn Ridge. Zhu Bajie had killed them with one swing of his rake!
Seeing Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong cut loose, Zhu Bajie had begun itching to join in. He still complained at every turn, but whenever a weaker demon appeared, he hurried forward to rack up a few kills.
The hardest foe had not been the Centipede Spirit.
In the original course of events, Sun Wukong had suffered badly at the Centipede Spirit's hands. But now that he knew its abilities and his own strength had been transformed, how could he fall for them again?
One strike of his staff had finished it!
The real trouble had been the Yellow Brow Great King.
The Yellow Brow Great King was Maitreya's attendant. Maitreya was known as the Future Buddha... But after Tathagata, the Present Buddha, fell to the Tribulation, Maitreya had failed to take his seat in the Great Hero Hall.
There was no helping it...
The future was always in the future!
Who told him to be no match for Buddha Ancestor Wu Tian?
In the original course of events, Maitreya had only intended to have the Yellow Brow Great King establish the Little Thunderclap Monastery and claim a share of the merit. Now he had other ideas and had given his attendant new orders...
"This is an age of great calamity..."
"An age of upheaval!"
"If I gather enough Belief Power and win over the favored son of this Tribulation, perhaps I can harness the calamity to turn