Monkey grinned. "You've got quite a fortune tucked away. Not bad."
Tathagata raised the corners of his mouth in a strained smile.
"Ten thousand strands of chaos spiritual energy, and a million strands of xiantian spiritual energy."
Tathagata's face immediately flushed red, and he shook his head.
"We don't have that much. The Saints left some chaos spiritual energy behind in the past, but there are only a little over a thousand strands. Xiantian spiritual energy is always available. Guanyin's Jade Purification Bottle can produce it at any time."
"Good. Since you're so sincere, I'll only take a thousand strands of chaos spiritual energy and leave you the rest. But I want that Jade Purification Bottle. It'll help with my cultivation."
Monkey opened his lion's maw and demanded a king's ransom.
"Agreed!" Tathagata gritted his teeth and accepted outright.
At that moment, far away on Mount Putuo in the Southern Sea, Guanyin Bodhisattva suddenly sneezed as she cultivated in seclusion.
"I've already withdrawn from the world to cultivate in solitude. How is someone still plotting against me?"
She instinctively clutched the Jade Purification Bottle tighter.
"Also, whatever spirit fruits and medicinal herbs you have, plant enough to cover all of Flower-Fruit Mountain. That's not too much to ask, is it?"
Monkey continued, tilting his head as he looked at Tathagata.
Tathagata's heart was bleeding, but the smile never left his face.
"Of course not. It's only right."
Monkey rubbed his chin and pondered for a while, making Tathagata's heart pound with dread.
"I hear the Buddhist Sect has the Twenty-Four Heavens. I want two of them. That's fine, right? They're your territory, so you must have the final say."
"No problem!"
Tathagata nodded again, already calculating which two Buddhas he would kick out.
Just then, Lin Tian suddenly sent Monkey