The Journey to the West is once again enshrined as the gods, and Wukong binds himself to Sha Nü. He sends every god and Buddha who plotted against him onto the Investiture of the Gods.
You dare plot against me, Sun Wukong? You must be tired of living.
Fortunes change hands. Next year, it’ll be your turn.
Sha Nü creates “gene cultivation fluid,” and the monkey establishes a “Rebirth Pool” on Flower Fruit Mountain to restore the physical bodies of the Chan Sect immortals on the Investiture of the Gods.
He turns the Journey to the West upside down and sends the bald monks of Buddhism onto the Investiture of the Gods.
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“Sha Nü, now that I’ve become Sun Wukong, where did the real Wukong go?”
“Monkey, you are Sun Wukong, and Sun Wukong is you.”
“After Tang Sanzang chanted the Tightening Spell hundreds of times, the pain drove your true soul out of your body to live another life in reincarnation.”
“Huh?”
“Damn, that’s rough. I only have one band around my head, but mortals have so many.”
“I only had one master, Tang Sanzang, chanting the Tightening Spell at me.”
“But mortals have their parents, wives, children, mothers-in-law, bosses, bosses’ wives, teachers, doctors, nurses, capitalists… Too many people to count, all chanting the Tightening Spell at them.”
“Car loans… mortgages… online loans…”
“Tuition… medical bills… surgery costs…”
“Stop! That’s enough!”
“Hmm?”
“That old woman Guanyin is here.”
