While You Journey West, I Journey East

The leader of Great Thunderclap Temple, the Tathagata, wants to expand his operations and spread his teachings in the Tang Empire of Nanzhan Buzhou. He calls in Tang Sanzang and his three disciples and talks them into taking promotional materials, the Three Collections of Scriptures, to the Tang Empire to preach.

Of course, Heaven won't stand for it. A western religion comes to preach in our Eastern Divine Continent? Are the gods of the Three Teachings, Chan, Ren, and Jie, so weak they can't even lift their blades?

“There's no need to talk about compensation or anything. It wasn't a big deal. That year, Li Bing of the Merit Office used his head to make Wukong's golden cudgel bleed. It was the cudgel's fault for not being well trained. We'll take the loss!” Tang Sanzang answered with a perfectly straight face.