As the great battle progressed to the moment when Sun Wukong's battle-bones fully matured and his combat power became comparable to a Dalo, Buddha Tathagata, that mighty figure of Buddhism, was finally permitted to enter the arena.
When Tathagata appeared, he did not directly engage Sun Wukong in combat. Instead, he led him out of the plaza of the First Heaven and into a vast expanse of a sea of clouds.
There, Tathagata asked him why he was causing such a disturbance in the Heavenly Court.
Chapter 89