Tathagata's Anguish, Qi Yu's Love Tribulation

While Hong Yun led the Saints in an assault on the Light and Dark Continent, the Primordial Wilderness was utterly calm and peaceful.

Without the Heavenly Dao stirring up trouble from within, and without scheming Saints like Laozi and Zhunti, the entire atmosphere of the Primordial Wilderness cleared at once.

Only Tathagata and Guanyin wore worried frowns.

The ninety-nine and eighty-one tribulations had gone far too smoothly—so smoothly that Tathagata felt Qi Yu and Sun Wukong's party were not undergoing trials at all, but sightseeing through mountains and rivers.

There was no helping it. Who had let Qi Yu's title of "One-Punch Mad Monk" become famous far and wide long ago?

On top of that, Sun Wukong's might shook the Three Realms. Anyone who dared block the Westward Pilgrimage Team either died, or died in an especially miserable way.

No matter how Tathagata thought about it, he could not understand how Qi Yu, a monk and a good man across ten lifetimes, could possess such a heavy killing nature.

Along the westward road, anyone who had ever eaten people or harmed the common folk all became departed souls beneath his fists.

"This poor monk is Qi Yu. May I ask, benefactor, have you ever eaten people?"

These words had long since become the nightmare of the monsters along the westward road.

The Demons were terrified at the mere rumor of him. They would rather be taken away by Taoism or Buddhist Sect experts as mounts than run into Qi Yu.

As a result, the ninety-nine and eighty-one tribulations arranged by the Buddhist Sect instead became like child's play.

During the incident in Wuji Kingdom, Manjushri Bodhisattva's mount, the Green-Haired Lion, the Lion Demon, had been ordered by the Buddhist Sect to push the king into a well, then transform into