We Agreed to Fight the Great Sage, So Why Are They All Monkeys?

Chen Changshou transmigrates into the dark mythological game Black Myth: Journey to the West, becoming a tiger-demon boss from the early game.

He can return to reality only by defeating the Great Sage, played by a player, and completing the System's mission.

To get home and reunite with his family as soon as possible, he spends six hundred years training arduously.

But when the game's story finally begins, he realizes that something seems very wrong.

Wasn't he supposed to fight the Great Sage? Why are all these useless little monkeys showing up instead?

Countless players: "This newbie boss is way too strong! How are we supposed to play?"

"Can anyone actually beat this game? I don't believe it!"

"This is humiliating, an absolute disgrace! The boss interrogated me for an entire day and night, asking what kind of monkey I was!"

Thousands upon thousands of players are driven to despair, insisting that nobody could possibly beat the game.

Just as Chen Changshou starts to think his mission is nowhere near completion, a "Fengchu" in front of a screen gets a flash of inspiration and decides to speedrun Journey to the West by cheating.

At that moment, the System's progress bar

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.