Journey to the West: The Sequel, Avenge the Little White Dragon and Storm Heaven Again

After the journey to retrieve the scriptures, was peace restored to the Three Realms? No, it wasn't!

The Demon Ancestor Taizhuo descended. Lingshan fell, and all the Buddhas passed away.

The Heavenly Court was emptied overnight.

Not a single god or Buddha in all the heavens could put up a fight?

Before fleeing, Tathagata told me:

Wukong, the Three Realms are counting on you. Get out there.

Tathagata, that's low, even for you!

The moment disaster strikes, you lead the charge in running away?

And in the end, every mystery points back to me.

Take along the brawler Tang Sanzang, find Tathagata, who's off fooling around with women,

and set out on this path of conflict that will shake heaven and earth.

This isn't a battle between Buddhism and Daoism. It's a struggle to distinguish purity from corruption in heaven and earth.

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Have you noticed that in Journey to the West, the closer they get to Lingshan,

the weaker our Great Sage, who once smashed the Heavenly Palace to pieces, seems to become?

Some say he's grown more mature.

Some say that because he's about to receive a divine title, desire has made him less fierce.

Others say he's evil, but Tathagata is even more evil.

If you ask me, that's both true and false.

If the Great Sage is no longer the Great Sage,

then why would we need a Great Sage at all?