Chen Lizhou transmigrates into the prehistoric world of Journey to the West. Longevity resources are controlled by the various powers of the Three Realms, making cultivation an almost impossible dream for an ordinary mortal. Fortunately, he awakens the Heaven-Stealing Fortune System. Its extraordinary ability lets him steal and copy other people’s spells, divine powers, bloodlines, and innate talents, making it the cultivation world’s equivalent of the “Star-Absorbing Art.” So Chen Lizhou turns his enemies’ methods against them and manages to escape a calamity.
Later, thanks to the variables created by his transmigration and a bit of “creative reasoning,” he successfully becomes a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi, the last junior apprentice brother at Fangcun Mountain. After leaving his master, he passes through Eagle Sorrow Ravine and hears that the true dragon blood of the Little White Dragon can make flowers bloom wherever his urine falls, and that collecting them can extend one’s life. Wouldn’t something else be even more potent? He has to go find out. Passing through Golden Pocket Mountain, he hears that the Diamond Bangle is incredibly powerful. He has to go there too…
As the saying goes, “A master shows you the door; cultivation is up to you.” In the end, the path of cultivation is one you must walk yourself. In the age of decline at the end of the Dharma, the only way to escape the Three Realms and live as long as heaven is to make the most of the merit earned from the pilgrimage and the incense offerings of the mortal world. As it happens, the System also has an ability to steal others’ merit and fortune by changing their fates. Watch as the protagonist steals the merit of the westward journey, leaving all the gods and Buddhas in heaven utterly bewildered when it comes time to tally the merits at the pilgrimage’s end, and ultimately escapes beyond the Three Realms, outside the Five Elements.
