Mo An transmigrates into a dark mythological world and becomes a lowly groundhog demon.
His golden finger is “words that make things so”: anything he lies about becomes reality.
That is how he discovers this is a world where Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West overlap. The Journey to the West he knows is only one slice of this world.
What secrets lie within Lion Camel Ridge? What is the Land God of the Flaming Mountains plotting? How did the Fox King of Longevity die? Is it really easy being the Tathagata? And who is scheming against the Jade Emperor? ...
He will begin his exploration in the world of demons.
Unfortunately, Lion Camel Ridge is his starting zone.
And more unfortunately, he has already died 99 times.
Every time, he died beneath the same staff. Its owner is called Sun Wukong.
In his 99th life, he decides to stop running.
When that familiar staff comes crashing down again, he shouts the secret signal at its owner.
The staff stops.
Only then does Mo An learn that the other man has also started over 99 times.
He says immortality is a scam, Buddhahood is a shackle,
that everything, from the War of the Investiture of the Gods to the Journey to the West, was predestined long ago.
He says he has accepted his fate.
Mo An looks at him and smiles. “In this final life, remember to find me.”
This is the story of Mo An, an ordinary demon who transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West and started over a hundred times, and how he lays his plans step by step until the monkey whose heart had turned to ashes rekindles his overwhelming will to fight and says “no” to the Three Realms.
Ready? He's about to start lying...
Posterity praises him thus:
The blood of the Investiture War has barely cooled, yet the Journey to the West game begins;
Immortals and Buddhas vie for Heaven's mandate, while all living beings are trapped in the dust.
Beneath Lion Camel Ridge, bones pile up like mountains; the Three Saints rule this pass.
Do not say the nameless can never rise: who can say an ant cannot turn the world upside down?
