P.S. I remembered wrong. Zhu Bajie hadn't appeared yet during Black Wind Mountain. It has already been revised.
Xuanzang's party had been traveling west all along.
They climbed mountains when they met mountains and crossed water when they met water. The road they took was also much like a straight line. Ever since the Bull Devil King had arrived, they had already been walking for nearly half a year.
At some point, the cinnabar mark between Xuanzang's brows had vanished again, and Xuanzang had once more become that clean-loving, long-winded young monk.
At that moment, he was on horseback, calculating the journey he had traveled.
He counted it out: from setting off from Chang'an to leaving the Great Tang's borders, then to taking in the Bull Devil King at Two Worlds Mountain, and then walking until today, the distance had already reached ten thousand li.
The Bull Devil King led the horse, and whenever he occasionally looked at Xuanzang on the horse, a trace of fear flashed through his eyes. Clearly, during this period, he had already been disciplined by this master of his—and not just once or twice.
He never would have imagined that Guanyin, that stinking woman, had actually taught the incantation to the monk. After several rounds of it, he had been tormented beyond words and made thoroughly obedient.
At least, he was thoroughly obedient with his mouth.
Of course, he could also bash this little monk to death with one muffled blow before the little monk started chanting.
But the Primordial Spirit that had appeared from inside the little monk's body after he had beaten him to death last time still made him not dare act rashly. Back then, after he had beaten Xuanzang to death, he had originally planned to use the corpse to fill