[History | Xuanhuan Journey to the West spinoff | play the pig to eat the tiger | No romance | transmigrate]
Five hundred years ago, he shattered the Palace in the Clouds and earned the name Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
Five hundred years later, a single thought drew him into a dream, and he fell into Chang’an.
The Golden Cudgel sank into the sea of his heart, and his magic faded along with the incense offerings. Stripped of his armor, he was merely a destitute wanderer in Chang’an whom no one recognized. Then he met the mortal who could see him: a scholar who had found one of his hairs.
Drought without rain, children disappearing, witchcraft stirring beneath the surface... Beneath the prosperous age, demons and monsters ran rampant.
The former Great Sage Equal to Heaven had planned to look on coldly, but the scholar’s reckless kindness and the people’s silent suffering showed him something he had never understood on the pilgrimage to the West.
An old case involving immortal peaches, a former friend’s attack from the shadows, an emperor’s inner demons: the karma of the past followed him like a shadow.
The warmth of the streets, the smoke of war on the frontier, the joys and sorrows of ordinary people: bonds quietly took root around him.
When the final catastrophe struck and the underworld flooded into the human realm, he once more gripped the cudgel that had once pierced heaven and earth.
But this time, he would not fight heaven and earth. He would protect what lay behind him: this Chang’an, full of life and feeling, that had taught him how to weep.
An epic that lays bare how an immortal learns to be human.
See how the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, in the most glorious dynasty of the human world, finds two words more precious than “Equal to Heaven”: Worth it.
