Removing the Talisman Triggered an Earthshaking Collapse

"Your disciple Chen Xuanzang, acting on the decree of the Emperor of the Great Tang in the Eastern Lands, journeyed to Western Heaven to worship Buddha and seek the scriptures. I have now encountered this mountain, which imprisons a divine monkey calling himself Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. He says that Guanyin Bodhisattva once guided him and that he is willing to convert to Buddhism and protect me on my westward journey.

"If this is true, if this monkey sincerely wishes to turn toward good, then let your disciple remove the golden talisman and free him, so that he may accompany me to Spirit Mountain and together we may attain a good end. But if he is a vicious brute deceiving your disciple, then I will be unable to remove this talisman, and your disciple will bear no resentment."

After finishing his prayer, he rose to his feet, steadied himself, and cautiously pinched a corner of the golden talisman. Then he pulled hard—

It came off with unexpected ease! The golden talisman seemed to have merely been lightly affixed to the stone. With that single pull, it detached directly from the rock!

Almost the instant the talisman left the stone surface, a sudden change occurred!

A fierce gale abruptly swept across the mountaintop without warning! The wind was strange and immensely powerful. Tang Sanzang felt his hand lighten, and the golden talisman was ripped from his grasp by the gale. Like a golden butterfly, it flipped several times through the air before vanishing into the horizon in the blink of an eye!

"Ah!"

Tang Sanzang cried out and tried to grab it, but it was already too late.

He stared blankly in the direction where the talisman had disappeared, then looked at the bare stone and blinked. A