When news of Blue Ox Spirit and the others' deaths reached the Heavenly Court, no one found it particularly surprising.
The Heavenly Court did not know much about the exact circumstances at the time.
The main reason was that they did not dare to find out. They did not even dare to go closer and watch, afraid that the Great Heavenly Demon would slap them to death.
The examples of Clairvoyance and Clairaudience were right there. They had not died, but they had been crippled so badly that it was little different from death.
Yet Blue Ox Spirit's cries of "I am the Supreme Lord's disciple!" and "I want to see the Demon Venerable!" had echoed through the skies. Even without Clairaudience, they could be heard.
They made quite a few immortals sneer inwardly.
He really thought he was somebody. Even when the Supreme Lord was still alive, the Great Heavenly Demon would not have given him any face. How did Tathagata attain nirvana?
Not to mention that the Supreme Lord had died and vanished who knew how many years ago.
Did he really think the Supreme Lord's lingering protection could shield everything?
Poor Blue Ox Spirit and the other two truly did not know about Tathagata's nirvana. When Tang Luo and Tathagata had fought fiercely, they had still been hiding inside Tusita Palace.
Later, after Tathagata attained nirvana, the Great Thunderclap Temple and the Heavenly Court had joined forces to suppress the news.
Blue Ox Spirit and the others had merely guessed that the two sides might have been evenly matched, or, at worst, mutually injured, which was why they had reached their "tacit agreement on the pilgrimage."
How could they have imagined that things were not like that at all?
If they had known that Tathagata had been