Tathagata sighed helplessly.
Looking at Sun Wukong before him, he sighed with emotion, then shook his head and said, "I know where the last Buddha Bone Relic is."
At those words, Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang were stunned.
"Buddha, you know where it is?" Sun Wukong could not help asking.
Tang Sanzang was also filled with bewilderment. He clearly could not make sense of it.
Since Buddha Tathagata knew where the last Buddha Bone Relic was, why had he not simply told them earlier?
Alas!
Seeing their reactions, Buddha Tathagata sighed again before saying helplessly, "The last Buddha Bone Relic is you, Sun Wukong!"
They sucked in sharp breaths!
The moment Tathagata spoke, Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong froze.
Neither had ever imagined that this would be the truth.
Sun Wukong himself was the last Buddha Bone Relic.
Did that not mean that defeating Wutian would require sacrificing Sun Wukong?
This...
Tang Sanzang froze. He wrestled with it for a long while but still could not utter a word. In the end, Sun Wukong sighed helplessly and slowly said, "In that case, I'll..."
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, Sun Wukong turned and fled.
After all, this was not the original story.
In the original story, the Demon Sect had been utterly brazen, plunging the Three Realms into chaos. For the sake of the entire Three Realms, such a force naturally had to be exterminated.
But things were different now.
After all these years, Sun Wukong could naturally tell that the Demon Sect was not what he had once imagined. They were not so rotten that they oozed pus, nor had they done anything that affected the Three Realms.
Under these circumstances, Sun Wukong naturally no longer felt the same urgency to kill Wutian.
Perhaps, to deal with a demon and