Lei Tong transmigrates by accident and becomes a low-ranking apprentice Thunder God in the Celestial Court's Thunder Department.
He thinks it is the least promising job imaginable: working only on rainy days, banging a hammer to make thunder, and constantly placing last in his performance reviews. He cannot even strike a local shrine with lightning accurately.
Then one day, a Journey to the West Conspiracy System crashes into his life.
Sun Wukong was not imprisoned beneath Five Elements Mountain for causing Havoc in Heaven. He was being used as a spiritual-energy battery for five hundred years.
The eighty-one trials of the Journey to the West were not tests to hone one's cultivation, but a stage play jointly produced by Buddhism and Taoism.
Tang Sanzang's tenth reincarnation was not brought about by Buddhist teachings, but was an artificially controlled reincarnation experiment.
Every being in the Three Realms, whether immortal, Buddha, demon, human, or ghost, was code written by a programmer called Hongjun.
And Lei Tong was the only bug in that code.
He began to shake the board. He rescued Sun Wukong from beneath Five Elements Mountain, awakened Marshal Tianpeng at Gao Village, turned General Juanlian against his masters at Flowing Sands River, and joined forces with Yang Jian at Guanjiangkou. An alliance of cast-off pawns, ready to break the game, quietly took shape.
When the sky screen above the Three Realms lit up for the first time, when the altered records in the Book of Life and Death were made public, and when the experiment logs from the seventh floor of Mount Ling's Sutra Repository were opened, everyone saw the truth.
Dao Ancestor Hongjun was furious.
The rules could be rewritten, and the Heavenly Dao dissected. This was no Journey to the West. It was a war for freedom.
