Wukong's Record of Shenanigans in the Cultivation World

Ever since leaving Five Elements Mountain, Sun Wukong has felt that something about this Journey to the West is a little off. Bodhisattva Guanyin foisted a Quick-Start Guide to Buddhist-Style Cultivation on him, Tang Sanzang keeps chanting, “Put down your Golden Cudgel and become an internet celebrity,” and even Zhu Bajie has started livestreaming gourmet food from Gao Village.

To escape this ridiculous path of cultivation, he secretly altered his travel permit and plunged into an even more chaotic cultivation world, Golden Cudgel in hand. Who knew it would be even crazier than the West? Alchemists use spicy snack sticks as medicinal ingredients, sword cultivators practice their moves with square dancing, and even the Heavenly Emperor secretly plays a Three Realms version of tile-matching.

Wukong says, “All right, then. I'll play along.”

He impersonates a master alchemist and uses monkey hair to make “Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pills” that have the immortals scrambling to get their hands on them. He poses as a visiting professor at a sword sect, teaching the disciples a “staff-fighting version of Subject Three.” He even sneaks into the Celestial Court and changes the Jade Emperor's “Three Realms Fortune Rankings” into a “Foodie Restaurant Review List.”

Everyone says the Great Sage Equal to Heaven has gone mad. Only he knows the truth: a cunning monkey has never played by the rules. After all, when it comes to cultivation, having fun matters most. And while he's at it, bringing those pretentious “immortal elders” down from their pedestals one by one is what real happiness is all about.