Transmigrating into the world of Journey to the West, I am an ordinary farmer's son at the foot of Mount Ling. When Tang Sanzang began his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, I too began my escape from Mount Ling to the Tang Dynasty! Tang Sanzang traveled west to seek the true scriptures, while I crossed east to survive, fleeing the demon-infested Western Hezhou! When Tang Sanzang arrived at the radiant Mount Ling, where the Buddha knelt to welcome the scriptures, I looked at the Tang Dynasty's city gates, tears streaming down my face, crying out that I had finally crawled back from hell to the mortal realm! The golden light of Mount Ling could not illuminate the white bones at its foot, and the chanting of the Western Paradise could not drown out the cries of the people. They sought scriptures, I fled for my life; they went on pilgrimage, I sought survival. I was born...
