"I intend to create a special Sage who can travel freely between worlds!"
"With this Sage, the affairs of the Human Race can be handled at any time, without causing worlds to collapse!"
"Sun Wukong, the Future Sage! I've already found him. What I need are the Five-Colored Stones you used to mend the heavens, Empress Nuwa!"
Xu Tong spoke earnestly. Indeed, with Empress Nuwa's Five-Colored Stones, the formation imprisoning Sun Wukong would no longer pose a problem.
"Very well!" Empress Nuwa agreed readily. Those Five-Colored Stones had been sitting unused for so many years, and she had little use for them.
She might as well grant Xu Tong this favor.
"Oh, and take my disciple Houtu with you to the mortal world so she can gain some experience!"
"If you could restore her Six Great Reincarnations along the way, nothing could be better!"
Empress Nuwa was no fool. With those few simple words, the arrangement was settled.
The Thirty-Three Heavens were truly dull. Almost everyone there spent their time in secluded cultivation.
Once the matter was settled, Xu Tong returned to the Heavenly Court.
There were now more than a hundred Heavenly Courts. Xu Hanlin had made some fortunate connections, contacting most of them to join forces against the Buddhist Order.
"Amitabha. After the Journey to the West, our Buddhist Order became far too closely involved with the Human Race!"
Amitabha sat on the highest floor of the heavenly tower Xu Hanlin had built, gazing down at the mortal world. The calamities he saw made him sigh despite himself.
Was the Buddhist Order truly a single, solid slab of iron?
Of course not. To begin with, Amitabha and Daoist Randeng did not belong to the same lineage as Tathagata.
Though it was called the Elysian Buddhist Order, he and