Chapter 754: The Scripture-Seeking Team Is Finally Complete! The First Trial—Mount Liangjie!

Yet Luo Fu's methods clearly exceeded Daoist Randeng's expectations.

Daoist Randeng never imagined Luo Fu had genuinely elevated Sun Wukong's power to the peak of Great Luo Jinxian.

Judging from the power Sun Wukong displayed, his comprehension of the Way of Battle was far from shallow, and his physical strength was also formidable.

With deep comprehension of the Way of Battle and strong physicality, Sun Wukong's combat power was undoubtedly among the strongest in the Great Luo Jinxian realm.

At this moment, Daoist Randeng began to understand why Luo Fu had the confidence to break the Ninety-Nine Trials and defeat their Wufu Sect.

With Sun Wukong's current combat power, it would not be easy for the Wufu Sect to defeat him without resorting to underhanded tactics.

Yet, remembering the many arrangements of the Western Two Saints, Daoist Randeng felt reassured.

Even if Sun Wukong's combat power were stronger, he was still only one, and two hands could not fend off four.

From Sun Wukong's aura, he was clearly a brute who had only comprehended the Way of Battle.

The Wufu Sect had countless ways to deal with such a brute.

Luo Fu showed no reaction to Daoist Randeng's praise; in fact, he did not even glance at Daoist Randeng.

His gaze was entirely fixed on the Mortal Immortal Realm.

After breaking through to Great Luo Jinxian, Sun Wukong's flight speed was not slow.

Not long after, Sun Wukong appeared before Tang Seng.

"Tang Shengseng, Old Sun has come on reputation alone—I am your third guardian."

Sun Wukong did not call Tang Seng Master; in his view, Tang had no right to be his Master, and now that Buddhism's schemes were gone, he naturally would not call Tang Seng Master.

Seeing Sun Wukong appear, Tang Seng showed no surprise whatsoever, simply nodded to him, then introduced him to the others.

"This is Zhu Bajie, this is the White Dragon Horse, this is Sha Monk—we five will be teammates from now on."

Tang Seng said directly to Sun Wukong.

The others also showed no surprise at Sun Wukong's arrival and nodded to him.

Since the scripture-seeking team was now fully assembled, Tang Seng and the others had no need to continue pretending.

"Today, Tang Seng seems a bit strange?"

Seeing Tang Seng's reaction, Daoist Randeng furrowed his brows—he felt Tang Seng's behavior today was extremely odd.

After all, Tang Seng was merely a mortal, while Sun Wukong was a demon.

A mortal encountering a demon should not be so calm.

When Tang Seng first met Zhu Bajie and the others, he had been terrified.

Yet now, seeing Sun Wukong, he was not frightened at all, remaining utterly composed throughout, as if he had known Sun Wukong would appear.

Seeing this, Daoist Randeng could not help but feel a sinister premonition.

Yet Daoist Randeng did not know what exactly was off about Tang Seng, so he suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart.

"The Journey to the West has officially begun. May I ask, what is your Wufu Sect's first trial?"

Seeing the scripture-seeking team fully assembled, Sun Wukong and the others seemed to be rolling up their sleeves, ready for a major undertaking.

Luo Fu could not help but turn his gaze toward Daoist Randeng, wanting to know what the first trial entailed.

"Amitabha! Please, Daoist Luo Fu, continue watching—our Wufu Sect will not disappoint you."

Daoist Randeng did not directly answer Luo Fu, instead curling his lips into a mysterious smile.

Clearly, the first trial the scripture-seeking team would face was specifically designed by the Wufu Sect to target Luo Fu.

Seeing that Daoist Randeng did not answer him, Luo Fu turned his gaze to the path ahead of Sun Wukong and the others.

With one look, Luo Fu immediately guessed the Western Two Saints' plan.

"Just as I suspected—the Wufu Sect truly has a clever scheme!"

Watching the still lingering peculiar expression on Daoist Randeng's face, Luo Fu could not help but mutter under his breath.

Since the Eighth Trial had not yet begun, the scripture-seeking team had not yet reached Mount Liangjie when they all gathered.

The border of the Great Tang also had a Mount Liangjie, different from the Mount Liangjie connected to the Blood Sea of the Netherworld.

This mountain was called Mount Liangjie because it lay precisely at the national boundary.

Although Sun Wukong was not imprisoned, Mount Liangjie still existed.

Now, Mount Liangjie imprisoned none other than Rulaifo Sect.

Since one must repay in kind, one must see it through to the end.

Rulaifo had imprisoned Sun Wukong beneath Mount Liangjie; Luo Fu chose to imprison Rulaifo directly beneath Mount Liangjie.

Mount Liangjie was the unavoidable path for the scripture-seeking team.

Thus, the Western Two Saints' first trial was now obvious.

Mount Liangjie was not easy to cross.

According to the agreement between Luo Fu and the Wufu Sect, the scripture-seeking team could only reach the West by walking, not by flying.

Mount Liangjie towered into the clouds; under normal circumstances, ordinary people could never scale it.

Sun Wukong and the others were not ordinary people—they could still climb Mount Liangjie.

But that was under normal circumstances.

Given the current situation, the Wufu Sect had clearly made preparations on Mount Liangjie.

To cross Mount Liangjie, there was only one path.

That was to overturn the Five Fingers Mountain that imprisoned Rulaifo.

If that mountain no longer existed, there would be no need to climb it.

The Western Two Saints were clearly aiming to repay in kind.

Since the Wufu Sect could not lift the seal on the Five Fingers Mountain, they passed the problem onto the scripture-seeking team.

If the scripture-seeking team could solve it, then so much the better.

Without the intervention of the Two Western Saints, they could free Buddha.

If the pilgrimage team cannot move Mount Wuzhi, all the better.

In this way, the Buddhist side wins the wager outright.

If the wager is won, whether Buddha is released or not is no longer important.

The Buddhist scheme is indeed clever.

This trial can be called a two-fold victory.

But the Two Western Saints never anticipated that Luo Fu had long foreseen they would use Mount Wuzhi as leverage.

Since he guessed it, how could Luo Fu have made no preparations?

Walking is too slow; Tang Seng, on the surface, is still a mortal, and his walking speed is even slower.

Thus, the pilgrimage team took many days to reach Liangjie Mountain.

As Luo Fu had predicted, the Four Directions and Eight Sides around Liangjie Mountain had been sealed off by the Two Western Saints' methods, leaving only Mount Wuzhi unblocked.

The Two Western Saints' actions fall precisely within the rules of the wager.