Programmer Wu Fan pulls an all-nighter fixing bugs and dies suddenly, then binds himself to the “Great Tang Conqueror System” and transmigrates to the twentieth year of the Zhenguan era. He has just earned his first fortune selling power banks when the System suddenly sounds an alarm: “Cultivation civilization detected!” The Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s somersault cloud has enveloped Chang’an. This is actually the world of Journey to the West!
When steampunk mechanical puppets face off against the Tightening Spell, food-delivery drones track demon lairs, and Tang Sanzang becomes a top-tier star selling products in mobile livestreams, the collision between absurd technology and classical cultivation spirals out of control. Heaven recruits him as a “technology consultant,” only for him to discover that the Jade Emperor is obsessed with Honor of Kings, while Chang’e’s livestreamed girl-group dance sparks a rebellion by Tianpeng.
Each time he levels up, the System assigns him a bizarre task: get a million likes for a Douyin video of Sun Wukong, repair Erlang Shen’s third eye, or teach the Supreme Lord Lao how to refine pills in a microwave. Even stranger, every time he uses advanced technology, his phone gallery generates a photo of him wearing a dragon robe and standing at Xuanwu Gate.
A mysterious text message suddenly appears: “Don’t trust the System. It’s rewriting history.” Meanwhile, Heaven is launching its “Space-Time Purification Program” to erase all transmigrators…