Manjushri Bodhisattva turned and left, but instead of returning to the Great Leiyin Temple on Western Spirit Mountain, he went directly back to Five Villages Temple on Mount Longevity.
Without Manjushri Bodhisattva needing to say a word, Zhenyuan the Great already knew what had happened. At that moment, he was looking at Qingxu Daode Zhenjun before him.
Qingxu Daode Zhenjun was also in a difficult position. He had never imagined that the scripture-seeking party would be so stubborn. Now, it had become easy to invite them in but hard to send them away.
Suddenly, Qingxu Daode Zhenjun recalled the Heavenly Dao Banner suspended above Mount Longevity. He immediately said to Zhenyuan the Great,
"Although Sun Wukong borrowed the Taiji Diagram, he has had no time to refine it. At most, he can only unleash twenty or thirty percent of its power."
"If Master uses the Heavenly Dao Banner to attack the Taiji Diagram, you should be able to break through its defenses. Then Senior Brother Manjushri can step forward and plead for them."
"After that, Master can invite them into Five Villages Temple as guests, then arrange for that monkey to topple the Ginseng Fruit Tree. Everything will return to the proper track."
When Zhenyuan the Great heard that Qingxu Daode Zhenjun truly intended to let Sun Wukong destroy the Ginseng Fruit Tree, his expression instantly darkened.
After all, every disciple of the Teaching of Elucidation knew what the Ginseng Fruit Tree represented. Back then, when Duobao Daoist forcibly cut off a large portion of its branches, it had already damaged its foundation.
Had Zhen Yuanzi not nurtured it through countless kalpas, the Ginseng Fruit Tree would long since have lost its former renown and become an utterly ordinary innate spiritual root.
Now that it had finally recovered its foundation,