Now, beneath the all-pervading Buddha-Light, the bandits were converted.</p>
Ao Tu had not anticipated this at all.</p>
His original plan had been to use these bandits to expose the most fundamental conflict between Tang Sanzang and his disciples.</p>
Wukong's own temperament was utterly at odds with the Buddhist Sect.</p>
Once that conflict was brought to the surface, no amount of instruction could change it.</p>
But Ao Tu had not expected Tathagata Buddha to have prepared a fallback, using the Sarira to suppress the matter for the time being.</p>
This truly caught Ao Tu by surprise. He had never imagined that Tathagata Buddha's arrangements reached so far...</p>
Now that the plan had failed, he could only intervene and block them by force.</p>
Meanwhile, after the bandits were converted by the Buddha-Light, they seemed to become entirely different people for a time. They turned over a new leaf and committed no more evil, became hardworking and sincere, did good deeds, honored their parents, and treated others courteously.</p>
Tang Sanzang and his disciples watched them for several days. Seeing that all the bandits had truly reformed, they could not help feeling delighted.</p>
Tang Sanzang said, "Amitabha Buddha. This disciple thanks my Buddha for his gracious aid in persuading these men to abandon evil and return to the righteous path."</p>
At this point, Yang Meng's parents came to see Tang Sanzang.</p>
Over the past few days, Yang Meng had abandoned evil and returned to the righteous path, treated his parents with respect and filial devotion, and shown his wife great love and care. To them, it truly felt as though joy had fallen from heaven.</p>
The elderly couple had come to plead for Yang Meng. Since he had already reformed, they hoped Tang Sanzang would let his past deeds rest and not report him