Duanmu Huai Passes Through Chechi Kingdom; Great Immortals in Golden Luan Hall Offer a Scheme

As for Duanmu Huai, after leaving Wuji Kingdom, he headed toward Chechi Kingdom. Chechi Kingdom was quite an interesting place. According to the novel, Chechi Kingdom respected Daoism and exterminated Buddhism, and the reason was also related to praying for rain. As the book described it, Chechi Kingdom had once suffered a drought, so the King had both monks and Taoist priests pray for rain. The monk chanted scriptures for half a day without producing any result, but the moment the Taoist priests performed their ritual, the rain came.

The King was overjoyed and declared the Taoist priests true immortals, while sending all the monks away to perform hard labor.

Of course, if Duanmu Huai had to say... there was nothing wrong with that.

Whether monks or Taoist priests, they were all living off the royal stipend. Who could tolerate someone taking money without doing any work? In Duanmu Huai's view, there was nothing wrong with what the King of Chechi Kingdom had done. Since the monks were useless, it was only natural that he no longer respected Buddha.

Hmm... but then again... Chechi Kingdom had killed so many monks, yet Buddha had not reacted at all, pretending to be blind. The King of Wuji Kingdom had merely soaked your Bodhisattva for three days, and you flew into a rage, stirring up trouble and even killing the King. From this, it was clear that believers were truly not worth a penny in Buddha's eyes.

Thus, purely for fun, Duanmu Huai told Sun Wukong about it, and the latter was stunned when he heard.

"Master, what should we do? If Chechi Kingdom respects Daoism and exterminates Buddhism, won't we be in trouble? Should we go around it?"

"Chechi Kingdom's territory is vast, so there's nowhere to go around. Just like in