Chapter 974: The Bankruptcy of the Journey to the West Plan

Daoist Randeng handing over the entire Journey to the West plan to Maitreya Buddha, and then going into seclusion himself, was naturally not as simple as Maitreya Buddha thought.

Originally, Daoist Randeng prepared that in one of the eighty-one tribulations that followed, because Maitreya Buddha was pressing step by step, the Journey to the West plan was about to go bankrupt.

By then, he, Daoist Randeng, would be 'righteous' and hand over the Journey to the West plan to Maitreya Buddha to control.

In this way, his and Maitreya Buddha's positions would be directly swapped; originally Maitreya Buddha was in the dark, while he, Daoist Randeng, was in the light.

Therefore, Maitreya Buddha only needed to pay a part of the price to sabotage the Journey to the West plan that Daoist Randeng had painstakingly laid out.

And this was why, even though Daoist Randeng's strength was not much different from Maitreya Buddha's, and he had the blessing of the Western Fomen Buddha position, he was still restrained everywhere when facing Maitreya Buddha's moves.

The reason was that it is much easier to sabotage something than to make it succeed.

However, once the positions were swapped, Daoist Randeng would be in the dark, while Maitreya Buddha would be in the light.

By then, Daoist Randeng could replicate Maitreya Buddha's operations and secretly sabotage the Journey to the West. Once the Journey to the West plan went bankrupt, Daoist Randeng could push all the blame onto Maitreya Buddha.

He could even build a righteous persona within the Western Fomen.

After all, on the surface, Daoist Randeng, in order to make the Journey to the West plan succeed, even gave all the credit for the early groundwork to Maitreya Buddha, yet even so, Maitreya Buddha still messed up the Fomen's Journey to the West plan.

Under these circumstances, Maitreya Buddha would inevitably be dismissed by the two Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti. With this, his, Daoist Randeng's, status within the Western Fomen would be very stable.

This was Daoist Randeng's method of retreating to advance.

However, before this, in his plan, he still needed to arrange the first few tribulations of the Journey to the West perfectly.

By then, he could form a sharp contrast with Maitreya Buddha, thereby further raising his, Randeng's, status in the minds of the two Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti.

Therefore, in Daoist Randeng's original plan, he would not have handed over the entire Journey to the West plan to Maitreya Buddha so early.

Doing so would inevitably lower his, Daoist Randeng's, status in the minds of the two Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes.

Facing the situation where the Journey to the West plan was about to go bankrupt, Daoist Randeng had to advance his original plan.

In this way, although it would lower his, Daoist Randeng's, status in the minds of the two Saints, Jieyin and Zhunti, it was better than the Journey to the West plan going bankrupt right now, right in his, Daoist Randeng's, hands.

On the other side, Maitreya Buddha was blinded by Daoist Randeng's proposal, so much so that he couldn't think of this level at all, and even thought that his plan was perfect and he had defeated Daoist Randeng.

Daoist Randeng, looking at Maitreya Buddha who was only smiling, although Maitreya Buddha was always like this, the smile at this moment was from the heart.

Daoist Randeng could no longer hold back and said.

"How about you and I join forces to break the ghost-repelling array and create an opportunity for the Jinghe Long Wang?"

If Daoist Randeng didn't speak up, the Jinghe Long Wang would likely retreat right now.

"Good!" ===== CHAPTER 976 =====