The Three Brothers Should Be Together, Neat and Tidy

The next day, Tang Monk planned to stroll around Seven Absolutes City some more. It was his first time witnessing humans and demons treated as equals and living together in peace. The more he thought about it, the more he felt there was profound truth in it.

Tang Monk also wanted to meet the city lord and see what this great sage looked like. But when he arrived at Seven Absolutes Palace, the guards at the gate drove him away without ceremony.

The city lord held the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands in his hands. How could he have time to waste on you? So what if you were the Great Tang's Imperial Brother? Seven Absolutes City was not even a nation—who cared whether you were a diplomatic envoy?

Tang Monk was turned away at the door and felt deeply upset, but the worry hanging over his heart was also put to rest. He had announced who he was, yet the city lord still refused to see him. Clearly, he had no interest in Tang Monk's flesh.

"If all demons in the world were like this, the journey west would surely be unimpeded. Why would this humble monk need to fetch scriptures? They would have reached Great Tang long ago." Tang Monk could not stop praising the city lord. Then he looked at his own three disciples... They were all demons, so what on earth was wrong with these three?

Sha Monk said, "Master speaks most wisely!"

Tang Monk committed everything he had seen and heard in the city to memory. He then left the city gates and copied down the rules posted there. Though they were not Buddhist scriptures, Tang Monk felt that principles capable of governing demons must have their merits.

Seeing him carefully copy every