Amid the surging sound waves, heaven and earth were shaken.
Other than the common folk, which of the Gods and Buddhas filling the skies did not know that Master Sanzang was the incarnation of the Martial Ancestor from another world?
Once the Hunyuan Dao Tribulation had truly gathered its tribulation fate and shaken the myriad Daos, no one could interfere.
Yet Gu Xuanshang was an exception.
His arrival had already claimed a portion of the tribulation's fortune.
The Great Tribulation divided into ninety-nine stages. There were eighty stages along the path of the Great Tribulation, while the final tribulation lay in Chang'an—in Gu Xuanshang.
Everyone had thought that, with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven's defeat, all would settle into dust. The Martial Ancestor would no longer intervene and would tacitly allow Shakyamuni to attain the Dao.
Yet no one had expected him to step forward again at this moment.
"Brother Gu... I see! Even the War God Xing Tian was not the final tribulation. The tribulation greater than Xing Tian truly is Brother Gu!"
Li Qingshan immediately understood.
Earlier, he had wondered why Xing Tian was not the final tribulation when the tribulation was supposedly divided into ninety-nine stages.
So the final tribulation had actually been outside the path of the Great Tribulation, within Chang'an City, upon Brother Gu.
Even the chanting of Buddhist scriptures in the Great Thunder Sound Temple paused slightly.
Golden Cicada's hand trembled.
Golden Cicada's descent into the world should have been the first tribulation. Yet because he could not defeat Master Sanzang, this calamity had come to pass.
"This disciple is guilty. I have ruined my Buddhist Sect's plans spanning countless tribulations!"
Golden Cicada covered his face with his sleeve, overcome with shame.
The Buddhist Sect's schemes spanned countless Great Tribulations, even predating Old