Journey to the West: Walking Through the Same Path, Does It Count as Embracing?

If Journey to the West is the first journey to the West by the four masters and disciples of Monk Tang, then this article describes their second journey to the West, and this time there were more people, a longer distance, and a more arduous task. The main purpose of this journey to the west is to find the master, while Tathagata is to understand the west. There are two routes to the west: one is Xu Tianba and Princess Cuilian, the reincarnations of Sun Wukong and He Xiangu, who followed Zheng He's fleet along the Maritime Silk Road. The other one is Yang Jian, Nezha, Tang Seng, Bajie, Sha Seng, Chang'e's reincarnation Liu Jinyong, Chang Chengzhi, Fang Ruhai, Meng Xiong, Kong Jie, and Princess Jin Mushan. They are walking the land Silk Road. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.