Ye Chen and Sun Wukong had a thorough wash in the water beneath Eagle Sorrow Ravine. Ye Chen washed his clothes in the water too, then tossed them onto a large rock on the bank to dry.
"Hey, Monkey, that transformation spell of yours is incredible. If you hadn't taught me that trick on the spot, I never would've gotten out. I might've suffocated in Little White Dragon's stomach."
"Ha, kid, you haven't even seen my other spells. The Art of Transformation is only the simplest and least useful of them all."
"Yeah, right." Ye Chen laughed and splashed water at Sun Wukong. "By the way, when Little White Dragon swallowed me, did Guanyin come?"
"She did." Sun Wukong nodded, but didn't seem inclined to tell Ye Chen what had happened. Ye Chen was clever, though; from Sun Wukong's reaction, he understood everything.
"Then Guanyin must have stopped you from rescuing me, right? Otherwise, with her abilities, why would you have needed to turn into a fly to save me?" Ye Chen asked.
Sun Wukong didn't answer this time. After giving himself a quick wash in the water, he climbed onto the bank and lay down beside Ye Chen's clothes, basking lazily in the sun.
Ye Chen knew his guess was right, and that Sun Wukong didn't want to answer in case it hurt his relationship with Guanyin and Tang Sanzang.
What Sun Wukong didn't know was that Guanyin had already shown Ye Chen some hostility earlier. So Guanyin's failure to save him today was exactly what Ye Chen had expected.
"I'm done washing too, Monkey. Let's go up." Ye Chen climbed out of the water naked. Sun Wukong glanced at him, then tossed him the clothes from the rock.
Ye Chen caught the clothes and saw that they were