There was a problem with the Demon-Sealing Pillar. As time passed, it became increasingly difficult for it to suppress that aberration.
The root cause was the collapse of their convictions. Not only did it prevent the Great Sage's true intent from wielding its original power, it even began to affect the true intent in reverse. This was not a matter of one added and one subtracted, but of subtraction upon subtraction.
Moreover, this problem had not erupted from the start. Rather, that self-doubt had accumulated bit by bit over the years, until it finally detonated and became a chronic affliction.
Thus, by the time the Spirit Monkey Clan discovered this problem they could not face head-on, it was already too late. There was no turning it around.
As mentioned before, this thing was not afraid of its own destruction. When it realized it could not escape during its second breakout attempt, it had prepared to self-destruct, crushing everything of itself and reviving anew within the Great Sage Wonderland.
But the Spirit Monkey Clan had been prepared at the time as well. Once it appeared for the second time, the Spirit Monkey Clan's Da Luo realm experts immediately realized that this thing possessed an undying nature. Unless a Saint personally intervened, it could not be killed.
Therefore, the Spirit Monkey Clan directly notified a Saint of the Heavenly Court. Before it could perish, the Saint fixed the void around it in place, halting its self-destruction and suppressing it outside, leaving it in a state neither dead nor alive.
Naturally, after the Demon-Sealing Pillar developed problems, the Spirit Monkey Clan had also sought out the Saints.
Yet they discovered that this aberration had somehow become compatible with the flawed wills, lodging itself within them. If a Saint acted to destroy the wills