Primordial Chaos: You Asked Me to Sell Goods, Yet You Became the Supreme of All Heavens - Section 673

Thus, Tang Sanzang convinced himself.

Seeing his master Tang Sanzang stop, how could Sun Wukong and Marshal Tian Peng not know what their master was thinking?

And so, when Tang Sanzang stopped in his tracks, the remaining man, horse, pig, and monkey—

also stopped and turned to look at General Juanlian behind them.

At that moment, General Juanlian got straight to the point.

"Master, you don't know this, but I was hiding in Flowing Sand River because I didn't come out."

"I was preparing a meeting gift for you. Look, this Supreme Flat Peach is my meeting gift."

"So, Master, it's not that I lacked the sincerity to follow you to the Western Spirit Mountain."

"It's just that I was delayed by this matter, which was why I didn't appear before you right away."

Tang Sanzang naturally knew that General Juanlian was still lying.

However, seeing how sincere General Juanlian was at present (for the sake of the Supreme Flat Peach),

Tang Sanzang decided to give General Juanlian a chance.

After all, the fact that he could continue following Tang Sanzang without giving up, despite being rejected by him time and again,

showed that General Juanlian still possessed a sincere heart devoted to Buddhism.

Although Tang Sanzang thought this way, he did not reveal it on the surface.

After all, Tang Sanzang still needed to maintain the image of an enlightened monk.

As an enlightened monk, how could he be tempted by a mere Supreme Flat Peach?

And so, Tang Sanzang signaled to his disciple Sun Wukong with his eyes.

He hoped Sun Wukong would give him a way out.

That way, he could put on a show of declining three times and yielding three times before ultimately "having no choice" but to accept General Juanlian.

But just then, before