Tut, tut.
In the original trajectory, all the Crow-Cock Kingdom's king had to do was weep to Tang Sanzang.
Because Tang Sanzang had no cultivation.
That approach would not work now.
He might as well show himself directly before everyone.
After returning from the Three Pure Ones Hall, Zhou Qingqing saw the Crow-Cock Kingdom's king tearfully pleading before the members of the Preaching Squad.
When this fairy maiden was at your level of cultivation, I saw through this scheme at a glance. You're still far behind.
What a pity this fairy maiden isn't in the Preaching Squad. Otherwise, I'd definitely let you witness clearing all eighty-one trials in one night!
"..."
The Heavenly Venerates of the Three Pure Ones Hall were rendered speechless as they listened to their returned disciple's thoughts.
Their disciple had started bragging the moment she returned.
Still, they did not mock her.
After all, Qingqing had already revealed the trick behind this trial.
Amitabha Buddha had not greatly altered the trajectory of the Crow-Cock Kingdom trial.
He had merely made one tiny adjustment, reversing good and evil.
Yet that one change was fatal.
To break the deadlock, they first had to notice it.
The Preaching Squad was no longer made up of naïve good people, so they would not immediately take the Crow-Cock Kingdom's king at his word simply because he had asked.
The Preaching Squad members quietly "watched" the phantom, their expressions calm.
Seeing that no one intended to speak, Tang Sanzang knew this task had to fall to him, the Imperial Brother.
There was no helping it.
After all, he was the one in charge of the travel documents.
"You say you are the true king?"
"Absolutely true!" The phantom wept heartbrokenly. "If I speak even one false word, may Heaven strike me with