What if the experience is a scam from beginning to end?
A fairy stone in Dongsheng Shenzhou should not have cracked - because its name had long been crossed out from the book of life and death.
Sun Wukong didn't know that this monkey that jumped out of the stone had already been involved in a murder case five hundred years ago. Lingshan Golden Chanzi learned the truth about "obtaining scriptures" and was silenced by Tianting and Lingshan. Before his death, he used blood to write a name on the cicada's slough - a "later" who he foresaw would lift the world for him in the future.
The Pegasus does not eat grass, but carries the unfinished words of the dead; what is refined in the Bagua Furnace is not elixirs, but human memories; there are two books in the Book of Life and Death, one for you to read, and one for your life.
One difficulty, one murder. On the westward journey, every monster is an abandoned child who was forced to rebel; every murder case points to the same magnificent spiritual mountain.
Sun Wukong could have overturned the sky with one stick. But he figured it out under the Five Elements Mountain: a stick can't overthrow the world; to understand the chess game, he must first sit down at the edge of the chess board.
So he was willing to be suppressed for five hundred years while he waited for a Buddhist scholar to figure out this game of chess together.
It's just that he forgot - at the end of the chessboard, waiting for him to overturn the table, is the person who made him with his own hands.
And the four words Jin Chanzi shouted before he died are still burning in his ears:
"Lingshan, there is no Buddha."
