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 had fully started, but Emperor Shi also urged him to embark on the westward journey.
Even more shameless was the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who, every few days, dragged him into the Dream Space where they intimately discussed Buddhist scriptures. If someone didn't know better, they'd think the two of them were up to something in the Dream Space, just a man and a woman!
Of course, in the Dream Space, Chen Sanzang was brainwashed by the Bodhisattva Guanyin over and over again.
If it weren't for Old Xi's efforts, Chen Sanzang thinks he would have been brainwashed into a fool by the people of the Buddhist Sect!
"Damn it, if I didn't know that Guanyin Bodhisattva's previous incarnation was Ci Hang Daoist, a man turned woman, commonly known as a human demon, I would have dealt with him!"