After recommending Perfected One Taixi for the position of Perfected Lord Taixi, Wukong returned to Chechi Kingdom.
In the time it took him to go and return, a month had passed in the mortal realm.
Throughout Chechi Kingdom, word had spread far and wide of Perfected One Taixi ascending to heaven in broad daylight and becoming an immortal.
His eight disciples naturally shared in his glory. His eldest disciple Alu, in particular, had inherited Immortal Taixi's Immortal Furnace and had become a highly sought-after figure, courted on every side.
Even earlier, when Alu had taken Perfected One Taixi as his master, many people had been watching in secret.
These were all people implicated in the lawsuit involving Zhiyuan Monastery's former abbot.
They had watched Alu, the new abbot, rise step by step: from becoming Perfected One Taixi's disciple, to assisting with alchemy, to receiving rewards from the king, and finally to inheriting his master's mantle when Perfected One Taixi ascended to immortality.
Afraid that Alu would retaliate over the earlier affair, they were filled with unease and came bearing money to Zhiyuan Monastery to apologize and beg forgiveness.
Alu did not make things difficult for them. He accepted the principal they owed Zhiyuan Monastery but returned the interest, telling them that his master, Immortal Taixi, had instructed him that the monastery should take only what was rightfully its own.
They thanked him profusely.
With the money he received, Alu set aside half to pay the craftsmen. He also paid out of his own pocket, using the money and silks the king had bestowed on him to build a new hall in Zhiyuan Monastery and install a Buddha statue named "True Buddha Taixi."
Alu said, "Anyone can become a Buddha. My master possesses great merit, and thus he should be Buddha