As Xu Tong and his companions set out, Wutian and the others also made extensive preparations for this Journey to the West Calamity.
This time, they had no particularly elaborate ambitions. They simply wanted to bring this Journey to the West Calamity under their control.
With that accomplished, every problem would be easy to resolve.
No matter what happened, as long as Wutian and the others could control this Journey to the West Calamity, they could interfere with Hongjun's Dao Integration.
After all, this Journey to the West Calamity was destined to bring great prosperity to Spirit Mountain.
If it fell under the control of Wutian and his allies, that would never happen.
After all, with Buddha Tathagata having departed to be reincarnated, Spirit Mountain was now in Wutian's hands!
If Spirit Mountain failed to flourish, this Journey to the West Calamity could not be considered complete within the Primordial World.
That would allow them to delay Hongjun's Dao Integration.
Moreover, the Demon Ancestor did not know that the previous Great Calamities had all failed to proceed smoothly according to their original plans.
Xu Tong's case was especially significant. According to the laws of the Primordial World, Xu Tong was destined to become a Sage.
Yet that had never happened!
One of the six Sages who were originally supposed to shoulder the Primordial World's burdens was missing. That, too, was a major issue for the Primordial World.
Fortunately, Xu Tong had later become a Sage on his own. Otherwise, Hongjun would have had quite a headache.
However, precisely because Xu Tong had become a Sage through his own power, he was completely outside Hongjun's control.
Under these circumstances, Hongjun faced a serious problem.
If the Demon Ancestor's scheme truly succeeded this time, Hongjun's current attempt at Dao Integration would have