Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad rode his azure ox flying toward Huaguo Mountain.
Some demons exuding a murderous aura flew directly toward him and brushed past him, Lord Lao Zi was about to take action, but he hesitated.
"What's going on?"
He looked back at those demons as they flew away.
Those demons were heavily surrounded by demonic aura, obviously committing many evils, yet they bore some traces of Sun Wukong's Heavenly Dao.
Lord Lao Zi arrived at Huaguo Mountain.
"Great Saint, what's with those demons?"
He asked.
"They are my newly acquired subjects."
Sun Wukong answered, but did not want to elaborate on this topic: "Lord, weren't you hosting guests in Ten States and Three Islands? Why have you returned so soon?"
"I came to mediate."
Lord Lao Zi smiled and said: "Great Saint, Northern Continent is vast enough, why not sacrifice one continent in exchange for sparing the other three?"
Sun Wukong considered: "Lord, if you were me, would you easily give up?"
"No..."