Journey to the West: A Hundred Lifetimes in Paintings, Reincarnating to Join Mount Fangcun

After transmigrating into the world of Journey to the West, Lu Chen spends fifty years mastering martial arts and reaches the grandmaster realm. But on his fiftieth birthday, a mountain demon pierces his chest with a gust of black wind. A mortal martial arts grandmaster can't even withstand a demon's wind.

As he closes his eyes, he awakens the Scroll of a Hundred Lives: after death, he can return and be reborn at fifteen, keeping the gains from one life or choosing a new talent. In his first life, he kills himself to start over, uses a Marrow-Cleansing Jade Seed to remake his constitution, and beats Sun Wukong to the punch, joining him on Mount Fangcun to study under Patriarch Bodhi.

Patriarch Bodhi takes him in for the monkey's sake and gives him the name Lu Wuchen. The monkey masters the Great Dao of the Golden Immortal in three years, while it takes him three hundred years just to reach the threshold of Refining Emptiness and Uniting with the Dao. He's only a hair's breadth from becoming an Earth Immortal, yet no matter how hard he tries, he can't break through.

As his life nears its end, he hears that the talismans on Five Elements Mountain have been torn off and the monkey is free. Lu Chen sits cross-legged on a barren rock in Northern Julu Province, his white beard hanging to his chest. He grins and says:

"I finally lived to see you get out... Too bad this old brother of yours may not live to share a drink with you."

He closes his eyes and sinks into the scroll. Ninety-nine lives are over, and he has one last chance left.

The System displays a prompt: In your next life, you can choose to be reborn with the complete memories of the Thirty-Six Celestial Generals.

Lu Chen opens his eyes and once again sees the beams of the shabby mud hut where he lived at fifteen. "Last life. I swear I'll break through that final barrier to becoming an Earth Immortal."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.