Thousands of years after Tang Monk and his disciples learned scriptures, Buddhism is facing the crisis of the Age of Ending Dharma. Lingshan decided to teach the Dharma in reverse, allowing the Buddhist scripture-seeking team to travel from west to east before taking the path to the human world.
- **Space Alienation**: The Eastern Tang Dynasty is no longer what it was like in its prosperous times, and the world has turned into a quagmire of desire. The eighty-one difficulties from Chang'an to Lingshan have been redefined and become the eighty-one wounds that corrode faith.
- **Collapse of Laws**: Buddhism has failed in the swamp of human nature, the golden cudgel is rusty, the nine-ring tin staff has lost its Buddhist light, and the cassock is stained with worldly dust.
