He is not the dull Sha Monk. When Ling Tianzun woke up at the bottom of the Liusha River, the chess game of Journey to the West had changed.
In his previous life, he was the supreme master in the world of cultivation, and in this life, he is a disciple of Buddhist practitioners. He silently picked up his luggage, but when Guanyin could not see him, he made the skulls of the ninth sutra collector into a magic weapon, commented on Wukong's skills with the supreme vision, and used the true water of Xuanming to extinguish the true fire of Samadhi.
When everyone thought this was just a journey to learn scriptures, only he knew that he was exploring the truth behind the demotion of Heaven and the ten thousand-year chess game laid out by the Tathagata. Until he reached the Lingshan Mountain, he refused to accept the Arhat status and chuckled at the immortals and Buddhas in the sky: "Searching for scriptures is your practice, and transcendence is my journey."