You Were Asked to Explain Journey to the West, but You Called Him the Great Sage Who Balances the Books

Lu Sheng transmigrates into a live-streamed variety show about explaining Journey to the West. Luckily, he gets a System that lets him turn his commentary into videos and send them to the world of Journey to the West in exchange for rewards.

The other contestants give childish explanations, or interpret the story through the lens of romance.

Lu Sheng takes a different approach, explaining Journey to the West from a dark perspective.

Buddhism is the Way itself. In the name of all living beings, the Tathagata set the great calamity of Journey to the West in motion.

The Tathagata: How can you slander an honest man out of nowhere?

The Great Sage Who Balanced the Books: After Sun Wukong wreaked havoc in Heaven, the gods still respected him. He could call out to Heaven and get an answer, call out to Earth and get a response, because he stole the Peaches of Immortality, took the elixirs, and erased his name from the underworld's records. He balanced the books.

Sun Wukong: No wonder the Jade Emperor had me guard the Peach Garden.

Whose son is Red Boy?

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