Tathagata hurried over and immediately asked, "Does Golden Cicada really have the Vine Dao Venerable's legacy behind him?"
Ancient Buddha Randeng handed him the jade. "Can you make sense of it?"
"Odd changes, even stays; signs depend on the quadrant? What does that mean?"
Tathagata looked utterly bewildered.
"Could this be a Buddhist verse?"
Ancient Buddha Randeng shook his head, looking thoroughly frustrated.
"I can't understand it, but Sha Wujing managed to comprehend a transformation spell from it. Once he transforms with that spell, his original form becomes undetectable. It's truly strange."
"What? He can actually understand it?"
Tathagata picked up the jade and examined it closely.
"There's a word for 'change' here, but apart from that, how could anyone tell this is a transformation spell?"
The two Buddhas spent ages studying it, breaking it apart and rearranging it through every method they could think of.
Tathagata even brought out the bodhi tree beneath which he had attained enlightenment, yet he still failed to decipher the transformation spell.
"Forget it. It's only a transformation spell, nothing worth mentioning."
Buddha Tathagata finally felt his head swelling from the effort. His eyes flashed. "The two tribulations at Flat Peak Mountain count as a success, but what should we do about the two in the Wuji Kingdom?"
Originally, Manjushri Bodhisattva's mount, the Green Lion Demon-Immortal Qiu Shou-had been assigned to set up the tribulations in the Wuji Kingdom, impersonating Tang Sanzang to trouble the scripture-fetching party.
But now Manjushri Bodhisattva was dead. Immortal Qiu Shou, who had been acting as king in the Wuji Kingdom, had also been taken back by Jiejiao.
"I don't have time. I have to figure this out. Handle it yourself and arrange something."
Ancient Buddha Randeng was already captivated by those ten characters and spoke without even turning