Chen Xuan was once a medicine-bearer raised by a sham Buddhist sect. But on the night karmic flames consumed a village, he awakened an heaven-defying golden finger: the Journey to the West Tribulation Fate Chart, which could extract the karmic causes and sins of demons and beasts. Whenever he killed a monster, he could obtain mythic abilities such as Sun Wukong's Somersault Cloud and Zhu Bajie's Gluttony Art. The price was karmic fire consuming his body, inevitably bringing down the Celestial Court's lightning tribulation.
Seeking revenge, he entered Fallen Immortal Mountain, corrupted by immortal miasma, where he met Old Sha, a blacksmith who was Sha Monk's reincarnation, and Zhu Xiaojie, the gender-swapped leader of the Pure Altar Gang who was Zhu Bajie's reincarnation. At the ruins of Flowing Sands River, the three forged the Quicksand Blade, which could purify Buddhist light, and uncovered the sham Buddhist sect's scheme to monopolize the power of incense and devotees' prayers. When Chen Xuan discovered that he was the tenth reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, the karmic fire had already pushed him to the brink of becoming a demon. Should he become a stone monkey for good, or lose his cultivation and become an ordinary mortal?
But the true horror lay on the Journey to the West game board, hidden behind a wormhole in the Peach Garden. The head of the sham Buddhist sect was Jin Chanzi's evil corpse; the remnants of the Celestial Court were plotting to restart the Investiture of the Gods; even the fragments of Sun Wukong's golden headband were guiding Chen Xuan to become a new "pawn who slays Heaven"...
