Chapter 768

After traveling such a great distance, the scripture-seeking team finally encountered their third trial.

This third trial was none other than the loss of the kasaya from the original plot.

After traveling ten thousand li, Sun Wukong was the first to spot a Guanyin Zen Temple.

If Tang Seng were still the original Tang Seng, he would certainly have entered the Guanyin Zen Temple.

He would then have encountered the temple's abbot, and the black bear spirit behind him.

Unfortunately, the current scripture-seeking team is not the original one.

Sun Wukong was also familiar with the Journey to the West plot.

Upon first seeing the Guanyin Zen Temple, Sun Wukong had already guessed the nature of this trial.

Boom!

Without the slightest hesitation, Sun Wukong instantly enlarged his Ruyi Jingu Bang tens of thousands of times and swept the entire Guanyin Zen Temple into ruins with a single strike.

The abbot of the Guanyin Zen Temple was stunned by Sun Wukong's move—he had never imagined this trial would unfold this way.

Enraged, the abbot immediately flew upward, intending to confront Sun Wukong.

And then, there was no more.

Sun Wukong instantly unleashed his full battle intent, summoned Han, swung his Ruyi Jingu Bang, and smashed the abbot straight back to the Western Paradise.

Unlike the original plot, the abbot of the Guanyin Zen Temple was not a mortal; his strength was not weak, roughly at the mid-stage.

The black bear spirit behind him was even stronger, possessing Late Stage Great Luo Immortal power. Moreover, the black bear spirit was a demon race, with an exceptionally powerful body, making his combat strength among the strongest even within Late Stage Great Luo Immortals.

Unfortunately, before the black bear spirit could act, Sun Wukong had already spotted him—and just like the abbot, Sun Wukong unleashed his full force, reducing the black bear spirit to pulp with a single blow.

Even without activating his Chaos Demon Ape bloodline, Sun Wukong possessed Quasi-Saint early-stage combat power.

The gap between Quasi-Saint early-stage and Great Luo Immortal late-stage was simply too vast—it truly required only one strike.

After slaying the abbot of the Guanyin Zen Temple and the black bear spirit, Sun Wukong and the others paused briefly before continuing their journey.

This time, before Sun Wukong and the others had traveled far, someone—or rather, a demon—found them first.

Seeing how brutally Sun Wukong had just slain the black bear spirit, the Western Two Saints realized that if they continued this way, the personnel they planned for the subsequent trials would merely be offering themselves as meat to Sun Wukong.

Judging from the combat power Sun Wukong had previously displayed, even a Great Luo Immortal at peak stage, wielding a top-grade primordial spiritual treasure, might not be his match in direct combat.

The Myriad Worlds Chat Group was a Dao born for battle; Sun Wukong had already attained Quasi-Saint-level comprehension of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, and with the empowerment of his Quasi-Saint-level Chaos Demon Ape bloodline, even an ordinary mid-stage Quasi-Saint might not be able to defeat him.

A Great Luo Immortal at peak stage, wielding a top-grade primordial spiritual treasure, could resist a Quasi-Saint.

But that referred only to resisting an ordinary Quasi-Saint early-stage.

A slightly stronger Quasi-Saint was beyond the capability of any Great Luo Immortal to resist.

Not even with a top-grade primordial spiritual treasure.

Top-grade primordial spiritual treasures were never meant for Great Luo Immortals to use; for a Great Luo Immortal to wield a primordial spiritual treasure was like a child swinging a giant hammer—it could not unleash much of its power.

Faced with this situation, the Western Two Saints had no choice but to reassign personnel, strike first to seize the initiative, and target the scripture-seeking team first.

Striking first would grant them the initiative.

Moreover, by initiating the attack, they could try to avoid Sun Wukong entirely and target the others first.

The entire scripture-seeking team's betrayal was not entirely bad.

In the eyes of the Western Two Saints, since Tang Seng and the others had already betrayed them, they might as well strike first, capture them, and perhaps force Sun Wukong to hesitate out of concern.

In this way, they could eliminate Sun Wukong at the lowest possible cost.

Whoosh! Splash! Splash!

As Sun Wukong and the others passed over a hill, a sudden black gale erupted.

The black gale churned the surrounding air, broken stones, weeds, and trees into a massive black dust storm spanning a thousand li, completely engulfing the entire hill.

Instantly, Sun Wukong's vision blurred; black flying sand and shattered rocks filled every direction.

These flying sands were terrifyingly destructive—striking the body, they immediately corroded deep pits into it.

Moreover, upon being struck by the flying sand, Sun Wukong clearly felt a deadly poison seeping into his body.

The black flying sand possessed not only corrosive properties but was also laced with poison.

Sun Wukong unleashed his magic power to block the flying sand, but the moment his magic power left his body, it began to corrode.

Clearly, the black flying sand also possessed the ability to corrode magic power.

Furthermore, within the thousand-li storm, there was a terrifying pulling force that confined Sun Wukong entirely within the storm, drastically reducing his speed.

Faced with the black flying sand, Sun Wukong himself was momentarily overwhelmed, let alone the others.

Zhu Bajie and the frog were instantly disfigured by the black flying sand, their bodies pinned in place by the storm's immense force.

As for Tang Seng and the White Dragon Horse, the moment they entered the storm, they were swept away and vanished within it.

Clearly, they had been captured.

Although compared to the original plot, the current Journey to the West had become utterly unrecognizable,

it still could not change the fact that Tang Seng would be captured.

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"A mid-grade primordial spiritual treasure, the Wind Spirit Pearl, and the Ten-Thousand Poisons Pearl—these two treasures, combined with the technique Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, are indeed formidable."

Sun Wukong and the others might not know what the black storm trapping them truly was, but Luo Fu, who had been watching them from beyond the heavens, recognized its origin at once.

The black storm trapping the scripture-seeking team originated from the technique Flying Sand and Rolling Stones.

However, unlike ordinary Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, this black storm had been enhanced by two mid-grade primordial spiritual treasures.

These two mid-grade primordial spiritual treasures were precisely the Wind Spirit Pearl and the Ten-Thousand Poisons Pearl that Luo Fu had just mentioned.

The mid-grade primordial spiritual treasure Wind Spirit Pearl enhances the power of Flying Sand and Rolling Stones; the mid-grade primordial spiritual treasure Ten-Thousand Poisons Pearl imbues Flying Sand and Rolling Stones with poison.

Though only mid-grade, these two treasures, when combined with Flying Sand and Rolling Stones, were no weaker than ordinary top-grade primordial spiritual treasures.

They were perfectly suited to the technique Flying Sand and Rolling Stones.

The one who wielded the divine art to stir up dust and rocks was a yellow-robed leopard spirit, who, like the black bear spirit, possessed the power of Late Stage Great Luo Jinxian.

As expected, this leopard spirit was none other than the Yellow Robe Demon from the original plot.

Although he possessed only the power of Late Stage Great Luo Jinxian, stirring up dust and rocks was his innate divine art, and he had long cultivated it to perfection.