A [Last-Dharma Financial Crisis] erupts in the Immortal Realm. The Celestial Court goes bankrupt and begins liquidation, and a low-level cloud-horse dispatcher from the former South Heaven Gate is laid off. His severance package is a trillion-merit bundle of bad debts, including disputes over Sun Wukong’s rights, copyright claims involving Chang’e, and environmental fines for the Supreme Lord Lao’s alchemy furnace. After descending to the mortal world, he gets daily reminders that his debts are due. The protagonist can only take odd jobs and use all sorts of financial tricks to pay them off. In the end...
