Xuanzang looked like a wine-and-meat monk, but that was not actually the case.
As mentioned before, Xuanzang had long since seen through the seven emotions and six desires of the mortal world.
The Buddhist Sect's precepts existed to keep one's desires from expanding and being overwhelmed by cravings.
But such a thing would never happen to Xuanzang. He possessed tremendous resistance to such desires.
Uchiha Shin's gaze turned toward Queen Mother of the West. She happened to glance over as well, and after meeting each other's eyes, they both smiled knowingly.
Once they crossed this river, Xuanzang would head to Western Heaven to attain the Dao. Their Five Elements Dao attainment would also be complete. Only then would the truly perilous road begin.
In the latter half of the night, Uchiha Shin slowly rose to his feet, draped his outer robe over the sleeping Xiu Xiu, and looked up at the Heavenly Tribulation Array above the Flowing Sand River.
He stared at it for two full hours, until dawn was nearly upon them.
"Mystic Spirit King, do you have some plan for the Heavenly Tribulation Array?" Queen Mother of the West approached and asked softly.
Uchiha Shin smiled. "Queen Mother, what do you think would happen if I made a move and took away this Heavenly Tribulation Array?"
Queen Mother of the West paused. "If you took away the Heavenly Tribulation Array, Taishang Laojun and the others would be furious enough to die."
Uchiha Shin smiled.
They truly would be enraged to death. They had expended enormous power to create this Heavenly Tribulation Array and had been reluctant to use it all these years. If not for dealing with Xuanzang and the others this time, they would never have done such a thing.
"Mystic Spirit King, it would naturally be