The Ten Thousand Immortals Grand Array and the Ten Absolutes Immortal Array.
Both were among the Heavenly Court's foremost super arrays. Since the Heavenly Court's founding, neither had ever truly been deployed in its complete form.
Even when Sun Wukong wreaked havoc in Heaven, only one or two formations from the Ten Absolutes Immortal Array had been set up, delaying him for a time and causing him no small amount of trouble.
Only afterward had they devised a way to capture Sun Wukong.
Of course, Sun Wukong's later escape from the Eight-Trigram Furnace had been an accident.
And he was as nimble as a monkey—no, he was a stone monkey to begin with. Hastily setting up another array might not have been able to trap Sun Wukong anyway.
An array was an array.
It was not some technique that could be unleashed freely.
It required time, a suitable location, and sufficient manpower to set up and put to use.
At that time, simply asking Tathagata for help had been far more straightforward.
"Open the treasury. Take out all the reserves and devote every last bit to the arrays." Having decided to deploy the arrays, the Jade Emperor gave a further order.
"Your Majesty?" Li Jing could not help speaking up.
How vast were the Heavenly Court treasury's reserves, accumulated over millions upon millions of years? They were as countless as the stars in the sky; even the immortals managing the treasury did not know.
Yet they were to take everything out at once and use it for the two arrays.
This meant throwing the entirety of the Heavenly Court's accumulated foundation into the effort!
Put another way, so long as the Heavenly Court treasury's reserves remained intact, even if Tathagata went mad and led the entire Great Thunderclap Temple, along