Subversion of Journey to the West: Tathagata is a lackey of an alien god, seeking scriptures is a thousand-year scam, and every story you know is a lie that has been carefully tampered with.
Bones as Blades: The sacrificial herb-gathering girl was reborn from the ground. She refused to kneel or forgive. She used the nine relics as fire to burn through the false face of the Lingshan Mountain, shattering the abacus of the heaven, and killing all the way until the villain was the outer god himself.
Love and hatred come from the same source: The golden cicada who was killed in nine generations was the positive side of his enemy and the only salvation - the last relic was presented by him personally. Love is a sacrifice and completeness.
All things return to dust: After fighting the cosmic war, he neither calls himself a king nor a god, and returns to Baihu Ridge to grow medicine and practice medicine.
The highest level of satisfaction is to be able to say "It'll be nice to come back" after destroying the world.
