Xu Tong and the others settled down peacefully on Spirit Mountain.
They now had nothing to do. Apart from cultivating each day, no one paid them any attention.
Sun Wukong found this kind of life terribly boring.
Still, to avoid drawing anyone's attention, Sun Wukong voiced no complaints and remained in secluded cultivation.
Only cultivation could let Sun Wukong temporarily forget how idle their lives had become.
This continued for an unknown length of time, until one day, Sun Wukong suddenly felt all of Spirit Mountain begin to shake.
"What's going on?"
Utterly bewildered, Sun Wukong stepped out of the place where he had spent countless years in seclusion.
"Buddha Tathagata's reincarnation has returned to Spirit Mountain."
Zhu Bajie's expression was solemn as he looked toward the place where Wutian had been.
At some point, Xu Tong had also appeared beside them.
"Now it's our time."
Xu Tong looked delighted.
After all, his many years of planning had finally come to fruition. How could he not be happy?
"Come with me."
Xu Tong no longer had any intention of concealing himself. Today, the curtain would be drawn back on everything.
After Buddha Tathagata's reincarnation returned to Spirit Mountain, the entire mountain began to tremble violently.
The first to bear the brunt was Wutian, seated upon the Lotus Throne.
An immensely powerful force suddenly erupted from the Lotus Throne, sending the unprepared Wutian flying.
By the time Wutian reacted, he discovered that the Lotus Throne had transformed into a great, golden, radiant Buddha.
"I truly never expected you to preserve your power and wait so peacefully beneath me for all these years."
Wutian looked at the radiant golden Buddha, a cold smile appearing on his face.
"It was merely to pursue the Dao."
The radiant golden Buddha showed no other reaction