This is not the first time Sun Wukong has traveled westward.
He lived once.
In his last life, he was really suppressed for five hundred years, put on a golden hoop, protected the sutras, and defeated the Buddha in a fight - and then found out that everything was a scam.
After becoming a Buddha, he lost all his memory and became a mascot of Lingshan. Until one day, he accidentally heard the Tathagata say: "That monkey is dead, please replace it with another one."
At that moment, all the memories came back.
And then he died - not beaten to death, but crushed to death by his own "truth."
Then he was reborn, reborn into the first year when he was pressed into the Five Elements Mountain.
During the five-hundred-year "vacation", he recalled everything in his previous life over and over again, deducing every detail and calculating every node.
In this life, he does not want to become a Buddha. He wants freedom for all.
