A Newly Written Journey to the West: Turning Heaven and Earth Upside Down

What if the journey's destination were only the beginning of the story?

What if the moment of attaining Buddhahood were the very start of demonic trials?

What if all merit flowed backward, and every perfect ending eventually unraveled?

The Reversed Journey to the West is a subversive tale told in reverse. It completely inverts the hundred chapters of Journey to the West, beginning with the celebration at Spirit Mountain as the Five Sages attain true enlightenment, then moving backward step by step to the birth of the spiritual root on Flower-Fruit Mountain. But this is no simple rearrangement of chapters. It is a complete reweaving of cause and effect: Why are the scriptures' characters fading? How do the demons know what happened before? With every step Sun Wukong takes backward, the path somehow grows harder than it was the first time...