There's no way around it. After returning from the Great Qin Heavenly Prison, not only did Old Xi tell him that the Westward Journey calamity was fully underway, but Emperor Shi also urged him to begin the westward journey.
Even more shameless was the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who dragged him into the Dream Space every other day to discuss scriptures intimately. If someone didn't know them, they'd think these two, a solitary man and woman, were having a secret affair in the Dream Space!
Of course, in the Dream Space, Chen Sanzang was brainwashed by the Bodhisattva Guanyin over and over.
If it weren't for Old Xi's strong support, Chen Sanzang felt he would surely have been transformed into a fool by the people of the Buddhist Sect!
"Damn it, if I didn't know that the Bodhisattva Guanyin's former self was the Ci Hang Daoist, a man who became a woman and commonly referred to as a ladyboy, I would have..."