Journey to the West: Working at the Heavenly Court's Peach Garden, I Get Strong by Grinding

After dying from overwork, office drone Li Changshou wakes up as Heaven’s most miserable laborer: a strongman in the Peach Garden!

A lowly worker in the Celestial Court? Killed on a whim? Li Changshou looks at the rusty hoe in his hands and feels the crushing insignificance of someone who could drop dead at any moment. He lets out an office drone’s furious cry: This is even more exploitative than 996!

At the brink of despair, the King of Overwork System activates!

[Mission: Work yourself to the bone tilling three acres! Time limit: six shichen!]

[Rewards: cultivation! Gardening mastery!]

Overtime? No! It’s time for the blessings of hard work, aka getting stronger! Li Changshou swings his hoe and begins his grueling comeback in Heaven!

But his immediate superior is Sun Wukong, Bimawen? His next-door neighbor is Marshal Tianpeng, who’s about to harass Chang’e? And the Peach Garden is where the Journey to the West calamity begins?

Looking at the Monkey King about to wreak Havoc in Heaven, the lust-crazed Tianpeng, and the Peach Garden on the verge of being turned upside down, Li Changshou doesn’t panic. His eyes light up instead:

Sun Wukong steals peaches? He takes the chance to gather the scattered innate wood spirit energy! The Wood Spirit Physique is his!

Tianpeng harasses Chang’e? He hides in the laurel grove and gets his hands on the essence of the Moon’s Yin energy for free! Moonlight Dew: a huge windfall!

The Peach Banquet gets disrupted? He grabs treasure from the flames: a nine-thousand-year purple-striped peach? I’ll take that!

The great powers of Heaven scheme against one another? He quietly makes a fortune, climbing the ranks from strongman to head of the Peach Garden!

While others flee calamities, he’s busy milking every opportunity! With the Overwork System in one hand and a knack for outrageous tricks in the other, he turns his celestial workplace into an extreme-survival game and a chance to fleece every immortal and Buddha in the heavens! See how Heaven’s most miserable office drone uses a single hoe to carve out a path to the heavens amid the schemes of gods and Buddhas! Work yourself to the bone, and you really can get stronger!