The golden light of the Buddha's fruit in Leiyin Temple cannot trap the three hundred years of puppet life. When the Golden Chanzi, the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit, had a dream on the lotus platform, he was reborn to the moment before he was demoted to the mortal world - this time, he was no longer a pawn for the expansion of Buddhism, let alone the Buddha's cage with gold rims!
He publicly denounced the Tathagata's conspiracy to obtain scriptures, broke through the shackles of Lingshan with his innate Buddha energy, and fled to the three realms with his white dragon horse. At the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, he did not reveal the spell, but he awakened the truth behind Sun Wukong's sealed havoc in the Heavenly Palace; in Gao Laozhuang, he did not persuade him to convert, but instead awakened Zhu Bajie's illusion of obsession with "becoming a Buddha"; by the Liusha River, he did not understand the curse of resentment, and even revealed the secret behind the demotion of Sha Monk in heaven's plundering of spiritual energy.
The masters and disciples of the past are now accomplices; the Buddhists and Taoists of the past are all enemies. From a fugitive from Lingshan to the leader of the Three Realms Alliance, Jin Chanzi led the awakened Wukong, Bajie, and Sha Monk, and united with the oppressed demon clan, dragon clan, and Sanxian to attack Leiyin Temple and conquer the God-Slaying Formation. Facing the Buddha fruit of sandalwood merit handed over by the Tathagata, he threw it into the dust with his backhand: "What I want is never the Buddha's position, but a future in which all living beings in the three realms can choose freely!"
This is a journey to the west that subverts fate, a journey against Buddhism with Taoism, and a swan song about freedom and awakening in the three realms.
