Lin Yuan transmigrates into Journey to the West and becomes an ordinary mortal tasked with guarding a stele beneath Five-Finger Mountain.
The gods and Buddhas have laid a deadly trap for the journey west, treating all living beings like grass. Lin Yuan had only hoped to keep his head down and survive, but then he awakens the Karma Advice System.
As long as he follows the advice of powerful figures, he can forcibly plunder their cultivation, fortune, and magical treasures!
The Mountain God overseeing his imprisonment looks down on him and sneers:
“You miserable ant, if you kneel and bow every day and move these stones crushing the mountain, I shall grant you immortality.”
Lin Yuan replies with trembling deference: “I shall obey your teaching, honored immortal.”
[Ding! Advice followed successfully! Reward: Divine Dragon Prison-Subduing Power! Forcefully plundered a thousand years of the Mountain God's cultivation!]
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven wears a furious expression and teases him offhandedly:
“Kid, if you dare kowtow to this talisman every day, your old master will guarantee you immortality.”
Lin Yuan bows respectfully. “I understand. Thank you for your guidance, Great Sage.”
[Ding! Advice followed successfully! Reward: Mythic Seventy-Two Transformations! Forcefully plundered five hundred years of the fortune Five-Finger Mountain used to suppress him!]
Turning around, Lin Yuan stripped Black Wind Cave bare and casually drained the Ginseng Fruit Tree of its essence.
[Ding! Advice followed successfully! Reward: Fragment of an Innate Supreme Treasure! Forcefully stripped Lingshan of a hundred thousand strands of merit!]
Five hundred years later, the pilgrimage team reaches Lingshan.
Tathagata sits upon his lotus throne, staring at the cook before him. The man has no cultivation at all, yet fills him with a terrible dread. His voice trembling, Tathagata asks:
“Lin Yuan, how did you, a mere mortal, become a saint?”
Lin Yuan smiles calmly and clasps his hands in salute.
“Buddha, I have no particular strengths. I just take advice.”
That day, Lin Yuan shatters Five-Finger Mountain with one punch, and the nightmare of the gods and Buddhas begins in earnest!
It's so long-winded even though it's so powerful.