At Ziwei Palace, the Ten Yama Kings had banded together to request an audience with the big boss.
According to the script, they should have reported the chaos in the underworld to the Heavenly Empress on duty at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall of the Golden Palace Cloud Palace during tomorrow's morning court.
But the unruly monkey who had altered the Book of Life and Death was the reincarnation of the Northern Yin Emperor Fengdu, the superior of the Ten Yama Kings. If it was him, whether altering the Book of Life and Death was actually a crime was worth reconsidering.
Everyone knew the principle: in theory, it was possible, but in actual practice, absolutely not; in principle, it was forbidden, but in actual practice, completely possible.
Besides, when the Ten Yama Kings received the script, no one had told them that the monkey who had caused havoc in the underworld had been the Northern Yin Emperor Fengdu, their superior, before reincarnation.
When dealing with people rather than matters, changing the person naturally meant changing the way the matter was handled.
If they followed the script and went straight to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to complain, and the higher-ups blamed them, implicating Great Emperor Ziwei, they could not bear the consequences even if it was only a couple of verbal reprimands.
The Ten Yama Kings discussed it and decided that none of them should go to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall. They would first come to the big boss and ask for instructions.
That was just how cultivating immortality worked!
Master of Ten Thousand Daos had been ordered to handle all matters concerning the Western Teachings' missionary work. The Ten Yama Kings had come at exactly the right time. Seeing them hesitate and mumble, he guessed that Sun Wukong had manifested Emperor