I am Sha Wujing, a collector of bones at the bottom of the Liusha River.
Everyone thought that I was just a taciturn porter, a frustrated general who was demoted to earth, and the most inconspicuous supporting character on the journey of learning. But they were wrong. The truth is - I never left heaven.
Five hundred years ago, the story of the roller-shade general breaking the glass lamp was a carefully woven lie. The real situation is: the glass cup is not broken at all. That was a game I designed myself, in order to jump into the Liusha River and wait for a mission that would not start five hundred years later.
My true identity: the last generation of the Heavenly Secret Guard "Liu Li Si". Their duty is to monitor the Bible-collecting team and ensure that every chess piece on the westbound journey falls where it should. If Sun Wukong loses control, I will be responsible for killing him. If Tang Seng wavers, I will be responsible for replacing him. If Zhu Bajie thinks of something he shouldn't think of - I'm responsible for shutting him up forever.
Pursuing Buddhist scriptures is never a spiritual practice. It is a purge of power, a subtle plan to uproot the old forces in Lingshan and Heaven. And the biggest trump card in this game is not the Monkey King or the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, but me who has eaten nine generations of pilgrims at the bottom of the Liusha River.
Those nine people were none other than others. It was Tang Seng's ninth life. It was I who personally intercepted his first nine reincarnations, refined them into nine skeletons, and hung them around his neck - not to eat people, but to ensure that in his tenth reincarnation, his memory would be completely cleared and he would become a perfect puppet.
I am the most loyal slave on the westward journey. He is also the most dangerous traitor in the entire game.
Because I no longer want to go back.
——Sha Monk's Notes, in the secret room on the seventh floor at the bottom of the Liusha River
