After seeing off the Two Sages of the West, Tathagata turned into a streak of golden light and headed for Golden Turtle Island.
"Amitabha. This humble monk, Tathagata, requests an audience with Sect Master Kong Xuan."
Outside Golden Turtle Island, Tathagata spoke to the disciple guarding the mountain.
Seeing a bald monk before him, the disciple frowned. "Western Sect? The Western Sect is not allowed into the Eastern Lands. Don't you know that? And you dare ask to see the sect master?" He then impatiently waved his hand. "Get lost, get lost, get lost!"
Tathagata did not get angry and merely smiled. "It would be better if you announced my arrival, young friend."
Not many knew he was Gu Changqing's incarnation, so he could understand the disciple's hostility.
"Are you threatening me?" The disciple looked even more disdainful. "Do you have no idea how the Western Sect was driven out of the Eastern Lands back then?"
Tathagata: Who was the one with no idea?
Tathagata could not be bothered to argue with him. Instead, he called out toward Biyou Palace once more, "Tathagata requests an audience with Sect Master Kong Xuan!"
Using the Buddhist Sect's lion's roar, he sent his voice into Biyou Palace.
"You monk, how rude!"
The disciple raised his hand, ready to strike.
"Stop!"
The instant Kong Xuan heard that Tathagata had come, he hurried out to greet him. When he saw the mountain-guarding disciple about to attack Tathagata, he was scared out of his wits.
Good heavens!
You wanted to strike your own patriarch?
Tathagata was Gu Changqing's incarnation. Others might not know, but the few direct disciples did.
Even though Gu Changqing had severed his karma with Tathagata, the truth had not changed.
"How presumptuous! How dare you disrespect the Buddha!"
The disciple was utterly