Viewers across all Planes felt inevitable disappointment upon seeing Chenxiang so relaxed.
During this period, his emotional entanglements with his fiancée Dingxiang and his white moonlight Xiaoyu were downright headache-inducing. Instead of keeping his promises to the Third Holy Mother back beneath Mount Hua, he wasted his days doing no real work and contenting himself with a life of ease in the tender embrace of romance—it was enough to make anyone's blood boil.
Fortunately, Erlangshen arrived, finally bringing an end to this tedious plotline.
On the Celestial Screen, Erlangshen had been ordered to pursue Chenxiang to Jingtan Temple, where he threatened to capture him and return to the Heavenly Court to report on his mission.
That scoundrel Zhu Bajie had actually been seduced and drained dry by the old fox, leaving him looking like a shrivelled pig. He was no match for Erlangshen to begin with, let alone in his current hollowed-out state. Desperate to preserve Chenxiang's little life, Zhu Bajie frantically shaved his head and initiated him into Buddhism on the spot, though he had only managed to shave off half his hair before Erlangshen arrived.
The situation was not entirely hopeless, however. At least half of Chenxiang was now a man of Buddhism. Although Erlangshen was the War God of the Three Realms—whose might perhaps only his Monkey brother could rival—surely the Heavenly Court standing behind Erlangshen would not dare to completely sever ties with Buddhism over a…
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