The scripture-seeking quartet?
Those few words made Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu freeze in unison.
The Three Sages exchanged glances, their eyes filled with doubt and confusion.
A quartet?
What quartet?
When Sanzang had headed west before, he had brought only Sun Wukong to guard his path. Where had these four people come from?
Tongtian was the first to lose patience. His brows furrowed slightly as he asked:
"Disciple Changqing, what do you mean by that? What quartet are you talking about?"
Although Nuwa and Houtu said nothing, both pairs of eyes fixed on Gu Changqing were equally searching.
Faced with their confusion, Gu Changqing instead felt even more at ease.
He took another swig of wine and smacked his lips. Beneath the drunken haze in his eyes lay the clarity of someone who understood it all.
After all, under the original Heavenly Mandate, the Journey to the West Measureless Calamity had revolved around four central figures: Sanzang, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing.
With two of the four missing, it could hardly be considered complete.
The Buddhist School had been far too impatient with that so-called first Journey to the West.
Jieyin and Zhunti had eagerly sent Sanzang and Sun Wukong straight off, rushing them onto the road before even arranging the other two guardians.
They had probably assumed that Sanzang's blessing of Buddhist School fortune, combined with the Chaos Spirit Treasure in Sun Wukong's hands, would be enough to handle any unforeseen turn.
But who could have imagined that Daoist Duobao would suddenly bar their way, arriving with the Interception Sect's other direct disciples and slaughtering Sanzang right before Zhunti's avatar?
To put it plainly, the first Journey to the West had ended with its broken halberd buried in the sand because Duobao and the others had struck