He set out from Chang'an alone on the 108,000-li journey to fetch the scriptures.
By the time he reached Spirit Mountain, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Marshal Tianpeng, General Juanlian, Lady White Bone, the Scorpion Demon, the Fox Clan Princess, the Apricot Immortal, the Hundred Flowers Fairy, the Third Holy Mother, the Fourth Princess of the East Sea... and the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, who had waited for him beneath a ginkgo tree her entire life, were all at his side.
Spirit Mountain called him a violator of the precepts. At the Ullambana Festival, he broke through six formations in a row to prove that breaking precepts was not betrayal, but a way to restore them to their original purpose.
Heaven called him a destroyer of rules. At the Peach Banquet, he challenged the Jade Emperor with five scrolls of orders: “If rules are divorced from the people's will, they're nothing but worthless stones.”
The Dragon Clan had been suppressed by the Heavenly Seal for ten thousand years. He unlocked the Dragon Transformation Pool, where the peach of freedom blossomed for the first time.
Chaos had been sealed in the Outer Heavens for countless ages. He built a coexistence formation, letting the light of Chaos and the glow of the Precious Lotus Lantern breathe in unison through the ginkgo's roots.
It all began when one man broke the prohibition against eating meat. Before long, the rules of the Three Realms had changed because of him.
