Buddhism Is Flourishing in the West? Eighty-One Trials Won’t Cut It!

Chen Mo, a university student from Huaxia, transmigrates to the Primordial World after taking a nap and is accepted by Master Tongtian as his final disciple. To repay his master, Chen Mo plans to change the outcome of the Investiture of the Gods. But who could have guessed that one ten-thousand-year retreat would make him miss the entire event and skip straight to the time of Journey to the West? With no other choice, he joins forces with the Jade Emperor and Nuwa, intervenes in the calamity of Journey to the West, and takes up the post of Divine Judge. Using the Heavenly Laws as his bones, earthly statutes as his flesh, and human laws as his blood, he helps his senior brothers and sisters earn merit, form bodies of merit, and rebuild the Jie Sect… no, the Law Sect! But with so many Jie Sect disciples, the eighty-one trials of Journey to the West are extended to who knows how many trials… Tang Sanzang stares blankly. “Will these monsters on the road to the West ever stop coming? Buddha, do you really want me to obtain the scriptures?” Sun Wukong flies into a rage. “The children of my Flower-Fruit Mountain have been reincarnated for several lifetimes. Why are we still on the road?” Zhu Bajie is on the verge of tears. “Waaah… All I did was flirt with Gao Cuilan, and we’re legally married! Why are we being punished by only getting to see each other once a year?” Sha Wujing looks heartbroken. “Second Brother, that’s nothing! I was only following the Bodhisattva’s orders when I ate the Master’s first nine incarnations, yet I was sentenced to endure the pain of ten thousand swords piercing my heart every day on the pilgrimage!” On Mount Lingshan, Buddha’s heart is shattered. “How about we just call off Journey to the West? I’ll personally deliver the scriptures to the Tang Empire!” In the Divine Judge’s Hall in the Celestial Court, Chen Mo looks at the Jie Sect disciples in the hall, nearly a third of whom have yet to form bodies of merit. He fixes a stern gaze on the road west. “For the flourishing of Buddhism, the journey west will undergo another eighty-one trials!”