Journey to the West: Three Years, Eighty-One Difficulties to Speed Through!

Traveling through the West, completing Monk Tang's quest for Buddhist scriptures in three years? What, you still have to go through nine or eighty-one difficulties? In the Mahavira Hall, Tathagata is preaching the wonders of Mahayana Buddhism. When I was reading somewhere, I remembered his golden cicada that had been eaten for nine lifetimes, so I asked Guanyin what his arrangements were these days. Tathagata said: "Honorable Guanyin, we can make arrangements for our journey to the west." Guanyin replied: "The arrangements were made the day before yesterday, and all the disasters on the westward journey have been ordered." The Tathagata is extremely happy, "With this arrangement, fourteen years is enough for his disciple Jin Chan to reincarnate." Suddenly I heard it outside the Mahavira Palace Ananda transmitted the message: "No, no, no, no, no, Tang Seng and his disciples are here!" Everyone was shocked. They counted on their fingers and realized that it had only been three days...?