The dark version of Journey to the West - not a cool novel, not a systematic one, it is about those people who are struggling and unwilling to bow to their fate.
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Five hundred years after Sun Wukong caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he was supposed to be rescued by Tang Monk, put on a golden hoop, and set foot on the westward journey.
But this time, he killed Tang Seng.
Tathagata was furious, and heaven was in uproar. The monkey who refused to surrender was deprived of his cultivation as a Daluo Jinxian, his memory was wiped clean, and he was relegated to Sun Xiaoshi, an ordinary monkey who had just become wise in Huaguo Mountain.
When the myth ends, purgatory has just begun.
There is no golden hoop, no seventy-two transformations, and no glory of the Monkey King. It took him seven days to draw Qi into his body, and he had to fight for his life against a wild wolf for a ten-year-old spiritual grass.
The gods in heaven are playing chess in the clouds and watching the struggling ants with a smile. They thought that by allowing this monkey to practice cultivation again from the most humble place, he would understand the power of God, accept his fate, and become the "fighting and victorious Buddha" they need.
But they were wrong.
From the first ray of spiritual energy during Qi refining, the broken golden elixir fragments in Sun Xiaoshi's body were constantly awakening. Every breakthrough is accompanied by the cruel flash of memories from five hundred years ago:
Bima Wen's humiliation, the wildness of Pantaoyuan, the torture of Bagua furnace, the five hundred years of rain, snow, wind and frost under Wuzhi Mountain...
"It turns out that I'm not disobedient."
"I'm not convinced—why?"
A good book. Recommended to everyone