The Tribulation of Journey to the West: A Zen Heart Slays the Buddha

The pilgrimage succeeds, and the pilgrims are granted Buddhahood at Thunderclap Monastery, only to find themselves trapped in a massacre that will wipe them all out!

Sun Wukong is replaced by the Six-Eared Macaque, Pigsy dies in place of his double, Sandy’s soul is imprisoned in the Flowing Sands River, and the White Dragon Horse is silenced and shattered to pieces.

Golden Cicada, Chen Xuanzang, watches his fellow pilgrims die one by one. His faith collapses, and he angrily exposes the truth of the Buddha’s corruption, then wreaks havoc at Thunderclap Monastery before being cast into the Avici Hell.

After forty-nine days of torment in the depths of Hell, the Bodhi Patriarch secretly passes on the Elephant-Form Divine Art and teaches him how to resurrect the Great Sage.

Xuanzang breaks out of Hell, kills the Six-Eared Macaque at Flower-Fruit Mountain, and summons the Great Sage Equal to Heaven back. He retrieves the Golden Cudgel in the Eastern Sea and forms an alliance with the Dragon Clan’s Ao Mo’ang. At Gao Village, he recovers Bajie’s remnant soul, then saves Sandy from his soul prison in the Flowing Sands River.

The Heavenly Court allies with Buddha, and the gods fall into depravity. Xuanzang reunites with Yang Jian and Nezha to form the Seven Sages’ Alliance Against Heaven.

Spirit Mountain has become a den of demons, and all the Buddhas are puppets.

In this life, Tang Seng will not recite sutras of mercy. He will wield his monk’s staff and slay false Buddhas!

He will shatter the Jade Emperor’s palace, sweep through Spirit Mountain, wield his faith as a blade and his fellow disciples as the spearhead, overturn Heaven’s order across the Three Realms, and restore clarity to the world!

Order has returned to the Three Realms, but the story is not over. The Seven Sages have suffered a trial of the heart after the rifts and their battles against the gods of the West. Can they overcome it? Follow Journey to the West Calamity II: The Trial of the Heart.