Buddhahood was never a glorious honor. It was a carefully laid trap of imprisonment! Only after completing the journey west did Sun Wukong see that the Buddhist realms and the Celestial Court meant to bind him with Buddhahood and refine the battle-hardened bones in his body.
The gods and Buddhas wove a script of destiny across the heavens, using precepts and a golden body to restrain his wild nature. They used the people of the Three Realms as pawns and treated mortal lives as mere weeds.
Seeing through this hypocritical Heavenly Dao, he endured five hundred years of imprisonment beneath Five Elements Mountain. The moment his chains loosened, he broke free of the prison built by the gods and Buddhas.
His Golden Cudgel swept across the nine heavens. Together with Bajie, Sha Seng, Yang Jian, and others unwilling to be manipulated, he overturned the destiny laid down by the gods and Buddhas. He would not fight for the gods and Buddhas, but for the warmth and bustle of the mortal world!
He shattered the false divine authority of the heavens and protected countless mortals from becoming sacrificial offerings.
But when he raised his cudgel against the heavens, he discovered that behind the Heavenly Dao lurked an ancient power far beyond the Buddhist realms and the Celestial Court.
