Rebellious Sun Wukong: I Only Beat Demons with Powerful Backers

Only after attaining Buddhahood did I discover that every demon I had killed on the pilgrimage was a nobody's scapegoat. The demons with powerful backers went right back to eating people, and some were even granted divine titles and rewards.

At a celebration on Mount Sumeru, a demon king who had devoured a hundred thousand people was appointed “Border Patrol Envoy” simply because he was a Bodhisattva's mount.

The Buddhas in the hall smiled. “Lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot.”

I tore off my kasaya right there and set the golden body of the Victorious Fighting Buddha ablaze.

“I won't be a Buddha anymore!”

From that day on, a new rule spread across the Three Realms:

“Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, hunts demons with powerful backers!”

The Dragon King's illegitimate son? Dead!

A Bodhisattva's mount? I'll beat its backer too!

A demon raised by the Queen Mother? Let its blood spill across the Peach Banquet!

Wanted by Heaven? Besieged by Mount Sumeru? Hunted by the Daoists?

I hoisted the Golden Cudgel and laughed:

“Come at me all at once. It'll save me the trouble of hunting you down one by one!”

Then I uncovered the final truth:

The gods and Buddhas in the heavens were all accomplices, feasting on the blood of the innocent.

Fine.

Then I'll shatter Heaven's laws and replace the Heavenly Way.

I'll show the Three Realms that

The Great Sage Equal to Heaven was never a Buddha.

He's the rebel who exists to flip your board upside down.