บท 54: Chapter 54: Pooling Wisdom and Efforts

Sun Wukong returned to the Imperial Horse Administration and was still pondering who the real culprit behind this case could be, and what their motive might be.

His first suspect was the Jade Emperor.

Since learning that Wood Treasury Star Lord Deng Hua actually controlled the Imperial Horse Administration, Sun Wukong had begun to doubt the current situation of the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor, though a sovereign of the heavens, seemed unable to even manage a single government office properly.

After getting involved in the Deng Hua and Xiao Zhen case, it became clear to Wukong that the followers of the Chan teaching had deep roots in the Heavenly Court.

From this, he affirmed that the Jade Emperor's power must have been usurped, or at least partly so; the Jade Emperor hadn't fully controlled the Heavenly Court.

"Hmm, just as I had thought before, the followers of the Chan teaching are the prime suspects in the smuggling of Heavenly Weapons," Sun Wukong mused.