I'm Only Taking Back Everything I Lost! Come Back to Life-From This Day Forward, I Am Tang Sanzang

Within the sea of flames.

A strange smile appeared on Elder Jinchi's face.

He showed no expression of pain. The corners of his mouth even curled upward slightly, as though he had seen something no one else could see. In his eyes, that blazing fire resembled a doorway.

Worth it!

What happened today was entirely worth it!!

Trading this old fleshly body, which had lived in the mortal world, for another body—young, one that could become a Buddha.

He had lived long enough. He had lived for two hundred years, and he did not want to grow old any longer.

He wanted to take back the opportunity that belonged to him too!

The flames swallowed him.

The eastern detached courtyard and this meditation courtyard were merely two or three hundred paces apart, burning beneath the same night sky.

The two fires spread inward from opposite directions, like two dark-red rivers gradually converging, engulfing every corridor and hall caught between them.

No one knew how long passed before the flames slowly weakened.

By dawn, more than half of Guanyin Zen Temple had burned down.

The main hall had been saved, but the eastern detached courtyard and the abbot's meditation courtyard had already become ruins.

The Green Brick walls had been blackened by smoke, the eaves had collapsed, and the beams had snapped, exposing the charred wood within.

The air was filled with a damp, scorched stench—the smell formed when water was poured over the fire, mixing with charcoal ash and burned wood. It spread heavily through the cold morning air.

Wisps of white smoke still rose from the ashes, as though something deep within the ruins continued to burn.

No one noticed.

Above the same ashes, two invisible souls emerged.

Tang Sanzang's soul rose from the eastern ruins.

He stood before