Everyone in the world thinks that going to the West to obtain scriptures is a good deed to save all sentient beings, but they don't know that every step of this one hundred and eight thousand miles is stepping on the Tathagata's abacus beads. When Sun Wukong thought he had broken free from the shackles of the Five Elements Mountain, he actually just walked from a prison into a huge cage called "Qing Jing".
This is a carefully planned "Ponzi scheme".
Lingshan needs to expand, Heaven needs checks and balances, and Tang Seng and his disciples are just pawns in this power game.
How much of the so-called "Nine-Nine-Eighty-One Difficulties" is destiny, and how much is the "script" directed by Guanyin?
The phrase "Eat Tang Monk's flesh and you will live forever" has been spread throughout the three worlds. Who is behind the scenes, luring countless demons to die one after another?
And the golden hoop worn on the head, is it really to "restrain the mental ape"? No, those are chains of slavery, control chips inserted into flesh and blood.