Anyang found a random spot to sit down, grabbed some breakfast from a roadside vendor, and hit the road.
He was heading to Luoyang first.
Anyang planned to buy a carriage in Luoyang, then follow the official highway all the way to Five Elements Mountain. During this time, he would study the four gems inside the carriage by day and practice the Ancient God Scripture by night, using this method to experience the journey and the passage of time.
In fact, he could have flown straight to Five Elements Mountain, but it was a long way from here—far from something that could be summed up by that kindergarten-level map in the movie. Xuanzang naturally needed a fair bit of time to walk all the way from Luoyang in the middle of the Great Tang Empire to Two Realms Mountain at the border; if he arrived at Five Elements Mountain too early, he would have to wait there for Xuanzang for a very long time.
How was he supposed to spend all that time? Was he really going to pull up the lotus early and chat and drink with Sun Wukong?
Besides, Anyang had a hunch that this road wouldn't be dull. If he flew straight to Two Realms Mountain, he might miss all the local flavor and excitement of the human world along the way.
Anyang opened his map and pursed his lips.
A journey of over two thousand li.
If he went on foot, even someone with great perseverance who walked continuously without a pack, covering seventy or eighty li a day, would need one or two months. Calculated this way, Xuanzang in the plot shouldn't have been traveling entirely on foot, or he would have been caught by the pig demon long ago.
After lingering in the city