On the way to learn the scriptures, a line of words appeared in Sun Wukong's palm:
"You're the sixth one. Trust no one."
The golden hoop was covered with black runes, and vague images flashed deep in his consciousness - Flame Mountain, Shituoling Ridge, Chechi Country... Each time they were wiped out, and each time they were reawakened.
It turns out that the seventy-two transformations are seventy-two lives. Each time you fail, a change is permanently lost. The first five Wukongs all fell on the road to seek scriptures, were reset and replaced by the way of heaven, and then embarked on the endless road again.
The six-eared macaque is not a fake - he is a remnant of the previous five lives and has been waiting in the darkness for five hundred years.
When heaven returns to zero, when the truth emerges, when all memories are about to be erased again——
Sun Wukong made a choice he had never made before.
The seventy-two changes are destiny, the seventy-third change is freedom