[Victorious Fighting Buddha.] [No, the Boneless Sarira still has some significance to Buddhism.] [In that post-Journey to the West era, the Victorious Fighting Buddha played a major role in bringing the Buddha back.] [Come to think of it, Burning Lamp perished around then too, didn't he? Thank you for your efforts, Ancient Buddha.]
The Heavenly Venerates in the Three Pure Ones Hall exchanged glances.
A Buddha as meticulously self-serving as Burning Lamp could actually perish in that final post-Journey to the West era?
They had already felt that the Journey to the West Calamity was something of a farce. Now it seemed the upheavals that followed still held a touch of unfathomable mystery.
[People used to speculate that Sun Wukong and the Six-Eared Macaque had already switched places during the process.] [Now, if his Buddhist nature takes him over, that will be the real switch.]
Thoughts turned in Zhou Qingqing's mind.
The Three Pure Ones nodded in unison in the Three Pure Ones Hall.
That was absolutely right.
A switch between the Six-Eared Macaque and Sun Wukong was only theoretically possible.
Without Qingqing's intervention and their respective efforts, the protagonists of the Calamity would not actually have changed.
The so-called true and false monkey king did have something of a conspiracy theory about it.
Still, they could understand the changes in those people that Qingqing mentioned in her thoughts.
Most likely, everyone preferred the Sun Wukong from before the true and false monkey king episode. After it, they still held out hope for the Handsome Monkey King based on their original impressions.
The actual Handsome Monkey King might have done certain things.
It was just that those things probably conflicted somewhat with the earlier behavior of the Handsome Monkey King, or the Great Sage Equal to