Lu Chuan was still waiting for White Ape to continue, but after saying those three words, he fell silent.
"That's it?"
Emperor Lu looked stunned. "Just that?"
"Just that!"
The old White Ape nodded, looking very serious.
Lu Chuan: "..."
Looking at the smile on the wrinkled old White Ape's face, Lu Chuan's expression turned unfriendly. He very much wanted to strike with a heavy fist and let this old monkey learn why the flowers were so red.
He had finally wrangled some Golden Elixirs out of that stingy Taishang, only for Taishang's avatar to take them back again. That damned ox-nose was truly too rotten—cough, back then, it seemed the Daoist Sect had been founded by the two of them together.
Seeing the flickering look in Lu Chuan's eyes, the old White Ape gave a dry cough, a little guilty.
"Ahem, seeing as True Martial Emperor was so straightforward and didn't haggle, how about this? I'll throw in another piece of information for free."
"Speak!"
Lu Chuan's gaze flashed as he said faintly.
The old White Ape hurriedly said, "Maitreya Buddha is currently searching for a monkey."
"A monkey?"
Lu Chuan sank into thought. Suddenly, brilliant light surged in his eyes. "Flower Fruit Mountain... He came for Sun Wukong!"
Earlier, he had still found it somewhat hard to understand how Maitreya Buddha also knew that Randeng had hidden Sarira on Flower Fruit Mountain.
If, as White Ape said, Maitreya was capturing monkeys, then his coming to Flower Fruit Mountain was very likely aimed at Sun Wukong—more precisely, at the Boneless Sarira.
Only, after he arrived, he had not found the Boneless Sarira, but had instead found the three Sarira Randeng had hidden. Now that he was capturing Sun Wukong, he must have discovered that the Boneless Sarira had given