The Primordial Heavenly Venerable said nothing, but his heart was anything but calm.
He had never expected Zhen Yuanzi to have this hidden card. The man was drawing close to the Western Lands while simultaneously guarding against them.
Moreover, had Zhen Yuanzi deliberately arrived so late during the ordeal at White Bone Ridge? Had he been using this roundabout method to convey something to him and Laozi?
Naturally, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable would not be led astray by Sandy's surface-level explanation.
He had seen through appearances to the heart of the matter. Zhen Yuanzi's Five Villages Temple was so close to White Bone Ridge that the White Bone Demon's actions from beginning to end should have been impossible to conceal from him.
Zhen Yuanzi had arrived neither early nor late, choosing to appear only after Tang Sanzang and his disciples had finished looking through those secrets.
This sequence of actions suggested that he had deliberately exposed his hidden card.
Had Zhen Yuanzi also foreseen that Sandy or Zhu Bajie would report this information back?
Countless thoughts turned over in the Primordial Heavenly Venerable's mind.
Though he was already a Saint, he could not intervene in the Journey to the West within the Three Realms.
With the Saints absent from the current Three Realms, if Zhen Yuanzi truly wanted to act, he was powerful enough to reshape the Three Realms. No one could stop him.
Could he have grown unwilling to endure solitude and decided to seize the Journey to the West as an opportunity to make his move?
The Primordial Heavenly Venerable spun a whole scenario in his head.
"Sandy, I am now aware of this matter. Return to your Flowing Sand River in the Three Realms. Continue keeping an eye on the Journey to the West. We will find