At the foot of the mountain, it became clear that they couldn''t keep Tang Sanzang any longer.

    A Buddhist chant resounded.

    "Amitabha, fellow Daoist, why the rush to leave?" Guanyin Bodhisattva descended from the heavens, her feet stepping on auspicious clouds.

    Tang Sanzang looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva and said, "There are neither brothels nor meat to eat here, why would I stay if I don''t leave?"

    Guanyin Bodhisattva took out a feather and said, "Fellow Dao... hey, why are you snatching things?!"

    Before Guanyin Bodhisattva could finish speaking, the feather in her hand had already been grabbed by the bald monk, who looked at the feather and frowned, "How did you come by this thing?"

    Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "The owner of this feather wants you to stay on Mount Ling."

    Tang Sanzang said, "I know."

    Guanyin Bodhisattva was taken aback, "You know?" Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire

    Tang Sanzang pointed to a line of words on the back of the feather and said, "Isn''t it written here? I''m not blind."

    Guanyin Bodhisattva: "@￥#..."

    Upon closer inspection, Guanyin Bodhisattva indeed noticed a line of characters that were exceptionally elegant; clearly the work of a young woman. It read, "Stay, be obedient, study hard, and stop being such a troublemaker."

    Guanyin Bodhisattva was puzzled; she swore she had inspected the feather closely out of curiosity when she got it, but there hadn''t been a single character on it.

    However, that was not important now as Tang Sanzang seemed to take the words left by the owner of the feather very seriously, and that was enough.

    Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "Fellow Daoist, in that case you..."

    Tang Sanzang said, "Since I''ve come all this way, let''s go up the mountain!"

    Guanyin Bodhisattva smiled.

    Tang Sanzang and the Golden Summit Immortal breathed a sigh of relief...

    Guanyin Bodhisattva turned to Tang Sanzang and said, "Golden Cicada, although the trials you''ve faced along the way do not amount to eighty-one hardships, your ability to reach this place alone without any protection proves your resilience. Come, enter with me."

    Tang Sanzang pressed his palms together, "As you command, Master."

    Guanyin Bodhisattva was very pleased with Tang Sanzang''s response, which was befitting of a monk, unlike that ruffian...

    Guanyin Bodhisattva thought of Tang Sanzang, but when she turned around, the bald one was nowhere to be seen!

    A sheen of cold sweat instantly formed on Guanyin Bodhisattva''s forehead as she anxiously inquired of the Golden Summit Immortal, "Where''s Tang Sanzang?"

    Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Tang Sanzang carefully put away the feather and waved his hand saying, "What are you looking at? Let''s go!"

    The Bodhisattva Guanyin nodded slightly and said, "Fellow Taoist, Golden Cicada, let''s proceed. The sacred mountain is just ahead."

    The group continued on their way, and after traveling no more than five or six miles, they came upon a stream of water making a bubbling sound, with waves and torrents flying about, approximately eight or nine miles wide...

    Upon seeing this water, Zhu Ganglie immediately laughed, "Fellow travelers, I will jump across first, ah!"

    As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Ganglie soared into the sky!

    However, the moment he jumped over the river, a whirlpool appeared on the water''s surface, Zhu Ganglie let out a cry as he fell from the sky, landing right in the middle of the whirlpool and sinking to the bottom.

    The Bodhisattva Guanyin used her Divine Skills and managed to pull Zhu Ganglie out of the water.

    "Bodhisattva, what''s going on here? Is flying also forbidden over your sacred mountain?" Zhu Ganglie shouted.

    The Bodhisattva Guanyin replied, "It''s not that flying is forbidden, but there is a great formation above this river that prohibits all means of flight."

    Tang Sanzang asked, "If we can''t fly or jump, how are we to get across?"

    The Bodhisattva Guanyin smiled faintly and clapped her hands toward the river''s surface.

    Suddenly, a small boat appeared in the distance, and the boatman called out to the group, "Fellow travelers, come aboard the ferry!"

    Tang Sanzang was overjoyed and went to board the boat but then cried out in shock, "How can we cross in this bottomless, broken boat?"

    The old man propelling the boat laughed and said, "This boat of mine:

    When chaos first divided, it bore a name, fortunate that I propel it without a change.

    Steady against waves and winds, stable it remains, without beginning or end, joyfully it sustains.

    Untouched by the dust of the world, it returns to the One, through countless calamities, it moves on with ease, done.

    A bottomless boat is hard to take to sea, yet it ferries souls from today and antiquity."

    Hearing this, Tang Sanzang still hesitated, for the bottomless boat truly made him feel uneasy.

    Tang Sanzang, standing nearby, looked bewilderedly at Tang Sanzang and the old boatman.

    Sun Wukong quickly explained, "This boatman is the Buddha Jie Yin, also known as Namo Baozhuang Guangwang Buddha. He holds a very high status in Buddhism..."

    After speaking, Sun Wukong placed his palms together and gave thanks, "I am grateful for your generous offer."

    The Buddha Jie Yin nodded slightly and said, "Monkey, you have a destined connection with Buddha..."