Kong Xuan sat cross-legged quietly inside a cave, secretly adjusting his breathing to heal his injuries.
At the bottom of the North Sea, he was injured by Sun Wukong's Law-Type Divine Powers due to a momentary lapse, and then, carrying his injured body, he fought Kunpeng, leading to a mutual defeat.
Although with his current strength, getting injured wasn't easy, correspondingly, once injured, recovering wasn't easy either.
He had already arranged for the Taiyi Realm Leopard Demon to deal with Xuanzang and his group for this calamity. Kong Xuan wanted to simplify things, trying to create the calamity using the simplest method.
With a Taiyi Realm cultivation level dealing with Xuanzang's group, it's certainly impossible. In Kong Xuan's view, the Leopard Demon's ultimate fate is sure to be death.
And then? He would emerge as the Leopard Demon's elder to claim revenge, and then attack Xuanzang's group justifiably.
By then, surely it would be another calamity?