Now, the Queen Mother of the West's Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Herb had been stolen.
Ao Tu had already divined the whole affair with the Hetu Luoshu. The culprit was Princess Wansheng, daughter of Old Dragon King Wansheng of Jade Wave Pool on Disorderly Stone Mountain.
Princess Wansheng had taken Nine-Headed Bug as her husband. Nine-Headed Bug had stolen the Jisai Kingdom's National Treasure, the Śarīra, and the wife had followed her thieving husband's lead: Princess Wansheng had secretly ascended to Lingxiao and stolen the Queen Mother of the West's Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Herb.
In the original story, after Wukong recovered the Sarira and the Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Herb, he placed both treasures atop the Buddha Pagoda, delivering them into the Buddhist Sect's hands.
Now, however, the Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Herb implicated someone close to Ao Tu, so he naturally could not ignore it. Besides, if his guess was right, the Foolish Dragon the Azure-Robed Immortal Maiden had mentioned was his seventh younger brother, Jing Zhong Dragon.
Jing Zhong Dragon guarded the Sky-Supporting Huabiao, yet he knew only to watch the pillar and had not even noticed that the Spirit Herb outside Lingxiao Hall had gone missing.
As his own brother, Ao Tu naturally had to lend him a hand.
The matter was not actually difficult. Jade Wave Pool had little influence, and Nine-Headed Bug was not particularly powerful. Recovering the Spirit Herb would be simple. Ao Tu was mainly considering how to retrieve the Ganoderma Herb while making things a little harder for the monkey.
After thinking for a while, Ao Tu had a rough plan.
He only needed to get ahead of Wukong, arrest Nine-Headed Bug and Princess Wansheng, and hand the Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Herb and the Sarira over to the Queen Mother of the West as stolen property. That alone would keep