In Cloud-Ridge Cave, a long-eared monster was carried in one hand and thrown to the ground.
The owner of that hand was none other than Guanyin Bodhisattva!
"Bodhisattva!"
The long-eared monster recognized her and realized that Guanyin Bodhisattva had just saved him. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He reckoned that the cudgel strike just now had carried at least the magic power of a late Great Unity Golden Immortal.
"Tianpeng, the scripture seeker I told you to wait for has arrived. He is in Gao Family Village."
Guanyin Bodhisattva reminded him.
The long-eared monster was none other than Marshal Tianpeng, one of the Four Saints of the North Pole. The Dao Ancestor had personally visited the Heavenly Court and designated him as a participant in the Karmic Calamity. Even the Queen Mother of the West could not shield Tianpeng from it.
Thus, they had even dispensed with the charge of harassing the Immortal Maidens, sending Marshal Tianpeng straight down to the mortal world to reincarnate.
As he entered reincarnation, Guanyin Bodhisattva had found Tianpeng and instructed him to wait in Cloud-Ridge Cave for the scripture seeker, then escort him west to obtain the true scriptures.
But something had gone wrong during reincarnation, and he had failed to escape the misfortune of being reborn as a pig demon. The once imposing, valiant Marshal Tianpeng had become a pig in the blink of an eye. The blow was almost more than he could bear.
Even more infuriatingly, all his Great Luo cultivation had vanished. Even a late Great Unity Golden Immortal could frighten him into fleeing in disgrace.
Fortunately, before he entered reincarnation, Guanyin Bodhisattva had promised that if he escorted the scripture seeker to Spirit Mountain, he could have his body reforged in the Eight-Treasure Merit Pool and return