The Chu-Han conflict has ended, the Han dynasty has just been founded, and in the year 202 BCE, the gods and Buddhas remain silent. The Journey to the West has yet to begin.
Two hundred years remain before the stone monkey seeks a master, and the Journey to the West is still eight hundred years away. Ji Cheng, reborn with complete memories of the Journey to the West as a guard in Chang'an City, accidentally enters Mount Lingtai Fangcun and becomes a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi.
This world has none of the chaos of the primordial era. It follows only the pure divine path of the Journey to the West, alongside the sword-flying and demon-slaying arts of Shu Mountain, spanning both the mortal and immortal realms.
With his foresight into the workings of fate, he outclasses his fellow disciples, comprehends the essence of the Seventy-Two Transformations and the Somersault Cloud, and masters the supreme way of the sword. He overwhelms his peers across the heavens and becomes the youngest chief senior disciple in Mount Fangcun's history.
The gods and Buddhas have yet to awaken, demons and monsters run rampant, and the barriers between the two realms teeter on the brink of collapse.
Ji Cheng sits in command of Mount Fangcun, remaining outside the chess game of the Journey to the West. He obeys neither the Heavenly Dao nor the Buddhist and Daoist paths. During the forgotten years of the Han and Tang dynasties, he slays evil spirits in the mortal realm, subdues monsters in the wilderness, and stabilizes the order between the two realms.
Only when Sun Wukong climbs the mountain in search of the Way and the grand journey to the West begins to take shape do the gods of the Three Realms realize in horror that the chief senior disciple secluded on Mount Fangcun has long since mastered the world and watched over the entire Journey to the West from above!
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
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