Time passed.
That day, at the Flowing Sand River.
Guanyin was earnestly drilling her instructions into Monk Sand.
Suddenly, a powerful aura erupted from the Black Water River, nearly twenty thousand miles from the Flowing Sand River.
Roar!
Then a black dragon burst out of the Black Water River and roared into the sky, his dragon cry carrying far and drawing the attention of countless monsters.
"Hm? Isn't that Alligator Dragon from the Black Water River?"
"How did his strength suddenly reach the great unity golden immortal realm?"
Guanyin examined him carefully. Even she could not help her expression changing at the powerful aura radiating from the black dragon.
"Hm, Bodhisattva, that seems to be a black dragon over there. His cultivation has soared, and his strength is about that of a great unity golden immortal?"
Monk Sand had naturally noticed as well.
"Sandy, never mind that. Remember my instructions. Don't mention that I arranged this. Just say Tathagata arranged for you to wait here for the Scripture-Seeker, and don't mention the mistake you committed either!"
Guanyin's expression changed. No longer able to spare the time to instruct Monk Sand, she hastily tossed out a few words and flew straight toward the Black Water River.
Alligator Dragon's trial represented the Dragon Clan's participation in the tribulations. Though neither major nor minor, it still counted as a tribulation.
Now this little dragon, who had only just reached the heavenly immortal level a hundred years ago, had cultivated to the great unity golden immortal level in a mere century. Guanyin could not help worrying.
She had to go take a look.
"Whew, is this how terrifying a great unity golden immortal is? I only refined two hundred thousand years of the ancestor's cultivation! I haven't even refined a tenth of the Ancestral