[Time Travel Counterattack + Buddha-Monster Confrontation + Conspiracy Reversal]
Modern young man Lin Yue traveled through the world of Journey to the West, and when he was about to die, he awakened the remaining soul of Jin Chanzi, the second disciple of Tathagata. Jin Chanzi, who was supposed to become a Buddha, was shocked to realize that the "Nine-Nine-Nine-Eighty-One Difficulties" designed by Buddhism was actually a trap that used merit as bait and used the energy of annihilation to obliterate his consciousness! In order to escape the fate of being a puppet, Jin Chanzi passed on the demon cultivation method of "keeping one's heart and defying destiny" to Lin Yue, and possessed his sea of consciousness with his residual soul to help him steal spiritual veins in Black Wind Mountain, break demon cultivation, and use the mixed power of Buddha and demon to achieve a heaven-defying start.
On the westbound journey, the conspiracy is revealed layer by layer——
On the surface, Sun Wukong protects Monk Tang from obtaining scriptures, but in fact he is investigating the truth behind the suppression of Five Elements Mountain; Bajie, the reincarnation of Marshal Tianpeng, is actually a double agent planted by Heaven; the fragments of the glass lamp hidden by Sha Monk hide the formula of Buddhist "Dew of Nirvana". With every difficulty, Jin Chanzi's consciousness weakened, and Lin Yue had to use the demon elixir's spiritual energy to resist the Buddhist calculations at key nodes such as Yingchou Stream, Gaolaozhuang, and Liusha River. He even formed an alliance with the King of the Daughter Kingdom, the Bull Demon King, and other forces to gradually establish a demon cultivator camp.
The final battle, at the top of Lingshan Mountain!
When Tathagata activated the "Array of Nirvana", Lin Yue led the demon cultivator coalition and united with the heavenly opposition to break the situation side by side with Wukong, Bajie, and Sha Seng. He sneaked into the treasure house and smashed the beads of merit, helped Jin Chanzi escape from Tang Sanzang's body and be reborn, and even forced Tathagata back as a quasi-sage demon lord, making Buddhism promise to return the demon clan's territory. After this battle, the pattern of Journey to the West was completely rewritten - the demon world rose, immortals and Buddhas gave way, and deep in the East China Sea, the whispers of ancient demons heralded a new crisis...
Buddha is not all good, demons are also sentient!