After Leaving Spirit Mountain, Patriarch Bodhi Has My Back

On the day he became a Buddha, Sun Wukong saw the truth: all eighty-one trials had been staged by the gods and Buddhas, and he was nothing but a living sacrifice in the ledger of merit. His challenge before the Hall of Vulture Peak earned him a world-destroying strike from the Tathagata. His golden body burned to ash, his spirit shattered. Only a fragment of his soul remained, fleeing by instinct beyond the Eastern Sea, toward the place where his memories began: Mount Lingtai, Square-Inch Mountain.

In the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon, Patriarch Bodhi caught that dying spark. The slumbering immortal mountain awakened. As the bewildered remnant soul took shape again among the stars, the bloody truth of past schemes unfolded before him, and it was time for the sword of Square-Inch Mountain to be drawn.

This time, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven would have his true sect behind him. They would storm the Southern Heaven, shatter the Palace of the Celestial Vault, ascend to Vulture Peak, confront the Tathagata, and burn this false Three Realms to the ground.