Dark Journey to the West

Only when Tang Sanzang and his disciples arrived at Spirit Mountain did they discover that the quest for the true scriptures was an outright deception. The Buddhas of Spirit Mountain had long since fallen under the control of the Heavenly Dao, reduced to puppets preserving their own power. The pilgrimage was nothing but a scheme to identify anomalies. Even the claim that eating Tang Sanzang’s flesh could grant immortality was spread by Spirit Mountain, and the supposed distinction between the real and fake Monkey Kings was merely a failsafe laid by the Tathagata...