Back in the outside world, Adam noticed a slight disturbance in the fragments in his palm.
"Hm?"
He opened his hand and saw the fragments fly toward the Great Bell in Black Wind Mountain. After circling a tree beside the bell, they revealed a red cloak.
Adam beckoned, shook the cloak open, and recalled:
"Guang Mu Heavenly King's Fire-Avoiding Mantle?"
During the Guanyin Monastery ordeal in Journey to the West, Sun Wukong had used this treasure to protect Tang Sanzang while amplifying the flames. Why was it here now?
And the timing of its appearance...
Did the shattering of that fragment of Guanyin Monastery trigger the arrangement here and reveal this Dharma Treasure?
"Come out."
Adam swept his gaze over the area. A tiny pocket of space not far away immediately trembled, and an old ginseng spirit tumbled out of it.
Oh, no, it seemed the fellow was also the local earth deity?
Shaken out of his earth-escape state, the old ginseng spirit hurriedly apologized, claiming he had not meant to spy. He had merely noticed something unusual here and come to investigate as the local earth deity.
Then, with remarkable tact, he said that whether he had seen nothing or seen something, he could alter his account however Adam wished.
How should one put it? His will to survive was painfully obvious.
Yet this earth deity carried a trace of pure spiritual aura, which was unusual whether he was a ginseng spirit or an earth deity.
With connections like that, who would still be stuck serving as an earth deity on the ground?
Adam examined him carefully.
"Old sir, to serve as the local earth deity in a place like this, you must be quite extraordinary."
"You flatter this little deity, Immortal. I merely make a living. What is