In truth, Sun Wukong was also a victim of the struggle between Daoism and Buddhism. Both sides had Great Gods of supreme combat power, and once those Great Gods fought, the consequences were easy to imagine.
Mountains and rivers would shatter, and space itself would dissolve. Countless living beings would suffer devastation-a tragedy beyond imagining.
There were legends that the Buddha intended to refine Sun Wukong into pills. After all, the Boundless Realm had nine levels, each harder to attain than the last.
Advancing even one level was harder than ascending the blue heavens. Even with the aid of spiritual treasures born of heaven and earth, it was no easy feat.
Sun Wukong had taken form from a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth. Refining him into pills would naturally yield considerable benefits.
The Buddha dared to scheme in secret and refine him into pills, yet Sun Wukong had such an important role to play.
Relations between Daoism and Buddhism were already strained, but the Buddha would rather risk a war between them than give up using Sun Wukong to refine pills.
Wenlong strongly suspected that the Buddha had reached a bottleneck in his cultivation. He must have needed those pills to break through.
The struggle between Daoism and Buddhism was also a dispute over orthodoxy. There was no doubt that Laozi Li Er was the founding patriarch of Taoism.
According to legend, Buddhism had likewise been founded through Laozi's enlightenment and guidance.
Back then, Laozi had ridden a green ox west through Hangu Pass and reached what was now India. Seeing that the local people had yet to be enlightened, he felt compassion for them.
He began giving lectures and teaching scriptures there, educating the people and enlightening all living beings.
His disciples honored Laozi as their patriarch and