New VIPs are coming, so be it.
It's no big deal.
Sun Kong isn't afraid.
After all, he's already made Yuan Shi Tianzun, one of the Three Pure Ones, recognize him as his second uncle and swindled a new token to cause trouble everywhere later, leaving his second uncle to foot the bill.
Who could be more troublesome than Yuan Shi Tianzun?
"General Ba, don't rush, take your time drinking tea and speaking. With this Great King here, this new Flower Fruit Mountain won't collapse."
"Look at my new token, isn't it beautiful? Isn't it cool? Aren't you convinced?"
"Tell the monkeys and their descendants they can act however they want from now on, play however they want, don't be like pitiful little ones without a backer, afraid to do this and that."
"With me, your Second Uncle Yuan Shi, what can't be done?"
"Being polite to me is fine, but being polite to him is disrespecting his status as the Sect Master of Chan Jiao. Within the Primordial Three Realms, there's no one my Second Uncle can't handle, no debt he can't clear!"
Sun Kong's arrogance soared to the heavens.
Despite being a disciple of the Western Sect, from Ling Shan, one of the two branches of the Lesser Vehicle Buddhism, he acted like a second-generation saint of Chan Jiao.
He called Yuan Shi Tianzun "Second Uncle" repeatedly and loudly, as if Yuan Shi Tianzun wasn't just his second uncle, but his own father!
However, when General Ba and the others heard this, after a moment of shock, they still wore looks of melancholy.
The reason was simple.
The background of this group of visitors was no less significant than Yuan Shi Tianzun's status. They were other saints, and not just one or two, but a whole group!
"Reporting to the Great King, there are too many VIPs this time, we can hardly cope."
"How many is too many? More than the hairs on my body?"
"Uh, perhaps, possibly, probably more than your monkey hairs. If you don't believe me, you can come with me to see. In short, our mountain gate has already been trampled flat."
"What the hell?"
"What kind of guest is so arrogant as to flatten the gate of my new Flower Fruit Mountain? Isn't that courting death? Come with me and see!"
Sun Kong was still high on the excitement of provoking Yuan Shi Tianzun and successfully shocking him. Therefore, he didn't notice the worry in General Ba's eyes.
He stood up gallantly, and against advice, was led by General Ba to the "gate" a hundred miles away!
That's right.
Because there were so many guests arriving as a group, not only was the original gate of the new Flower Fruit Mountain trampled flat, but countless people had flooded in, filling the vast new Flower Fruit Mountain.
This also led to the gate, originally tens of thousands of miles away, being forcibly moved to a location less than a hundred miles from here.
Therefore.
When Sun Kong heard the countless noisy voices, the endless arguments, and saw how the spit of the crowd had converged into rivers, flooding everywhere.
He finally regained some semblance of reason, focused his gaze, and almost peed himself.
Even for him, a master of causing trouble countless times and shocking countless people, at this moment, he was almost scared away by these untold billions of "guests"!
Or, to be more precise, these weren't guests at all.
They were clearly enemies!
Who visits someone's home with tens of billions of brothers?
But then Sun Kong thought about it. Recently, apart from his interactions with the disciples of Chan Jiao, he hadn't even personally or indirectly sent anyone to snatch the Curtain Rolling General.
How did he manage to provoke billions of enemies?
Something was definitely wrong!
"General Ba?"
"Here!"
"Tell this Great King, what on earth is going on? Our new Flower Fruit Mountain has many handsome fellows, with me as the leader, that's true. My skill in causing trouble is maxed out, shocking the Primordial Three Realms, that's also true."
"But, when did we manage to provoke so many enemies?"
"If you don't explain clearly, I'll make you face them!"
Sun Kong's little heart couldn't handle these billions of people. Although, not long ago, he had fought against the Buddhas of Ling Shan, the Immortals of the Heavenly Court, and repelled tens of thousands of people.
But he had never seen a scene with billions of people.
It was inevitable that his legs would tremble and his body would go numb.
Fortunately, although there were many people ahead, his second brother, Wu Zhiqi, along with a million monkeys and their descendants, were resisting fiercely, preventing them from rushing forward immediately.
Even better, despite seeing their Great King's cowardly demeanor, General Ba remained by his side, unwavering.
And he recounted the entire process to Sun Kong!
"Great King, you don't need to be nervous. I'll tell you the whole story. To put it broadly, recently, many saints went to Zixiao Palace for a meeting."
"How they conducted it, we little demons naturally don't understand. But, it is said that the Ancestor Dao reminded the Six Saints to be polite to you, to us, and to those who will participate in the Journey to the West in the future."
"Therefore, Chan Jiao, Jie Jiao, Ren Jiao, and the Buddhas of Ling Shan, who were originally dissatisfied with us, all came to offer gifts to show their politeness."
"That's nothing."
"The strangest thing is, just before you returned, someone suddenly spread a rumor that the Ancestor Dao, in order to get more people to join the Journey to the West tribulation and to benefit countless beings in the Primordial Three Realms, made a temporary decision."
"After discussing with the Heavenly Dao, he decided to increase the reward of merit for the Journey to the West by ten thousand times."
"Imagine, before the expansion, thousands upon thousands of people were vying for this merit. Now, with a tenfold increase, it's inevitable that billions of people will be attracted."
"Don't think it's a lot. I heard Ru Lai, who has already been submerged in the crowd, calculate that these billions are just the first batch. There are at least eighteen more batches to come... Hey, hey? Great King, don't faint."
"If you faint, what will we do?"
"These people are too ruthless. There are disciples of Chan Jiao who are not second or third generation, but registered disciples from outside. There are various registered disciples of Jie Jiao and Ren Jiao."
"There are also the Buddhas of Ling Shan and hundreds of millions of Buddhist disciples and descendants, and even more so, various demons and monsters from the Immortal Realm, and rogue immortals who secretly descended from the Heavenly Court..."
"I haven't seen many gifts from these guys, but in such a short time, they've stripped bare half of our new Flower Fruit Mountain, eating everything from grass roots, leaves, soil, to dog droppings."
"I'm truly at my wit's end, you must do something,呜呜呜!"
By the end, General Ba was crying.
Sun Kong, unable to pretend to be unconscious any longer, had no choice but to brace himself and look at the boundless queue stretching tens of millions of miles into the distance.
He felt both melancholy and speechless!
...
Meanwhile.
At the Jade Void Palace of Chan Jiao.
Yuan Shi Tianzun, seeing this matter, deduced the truth with a silent calculation and couldn't help but spit out his food and laugh!
"Eldest Brother, Third Brother, Daoist Jie Yin, Daoist Zhun Ti, Zhen Yuanzi... you are even more devious than this humble one. You all made changes after being admonished by the Ancestor Dao, but why are you so ruthless?"
"Poor my nephew Sun."
"This time, even this humble one cannot help you. Perhaps this rumor will cause you some harm, but compared to the Demon Race, which even the Ancestor Dao fears, it is considered minor."
"Considering we have just become uncle and nephew, Guang Chengzi, withdraw the people of Chan Jiao. Reduce his pressure a little!"