After Sun Wukong Was Trapped Beneath Five-Finger Mountain

This story is expected to go VIP on May 15.

Check out my original light novel next door, "Thanks for Asking, You're in the Wasteland, Making a Name for Yourself Online." An ancient god transmigrates to the future and picks up trash online. The blurb is at the very bottom.

Blurb:

I'm Lin Yi, and I transmigrated.

The bad news: I turned into a monkey.

The good news: This monkey lives on Flower-Fruit Mountain.

So there I was, outside the Water Curtain Cave.

The first time I saw that monkey, I immediately...

Grabbed the monkey in question by the leg.

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Since I'm exceptionally good at flattery, Kong Kong took a particular liking to me.

By the way, back then he wasn't called Kong Kong yet. He was known as the Handsome Monkey King.

Later, while we were drinking and partying, one of the old monkeys suddenly went missing.

He crossed the ocean to study immortality under Patriarch Bodhi, while I happily served as acting king of the mountain.

But he was gone for seven or eight years.

Someone took over the cave, and his most loyal underling, me... got beaten up every day.

When Kong Kong came back, he asked, "Monkey, what happened to you?"

After thinking it over, I said, "Your monkey here has had the worst luck!"

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Furious, he avenged me, then taught me a whole range of martial arts, exasperated by how useless I was.

By the way, he still wasn't called the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. He was called Old Sun.

And I was forced to become Dripping Sun.

Knowing that in the future this monkey would be imprisoned beneath Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, I clung to him until I'd learned all his spells. I even took charge of the affairs of the seventy-two caves,

just waiting for him to be locked away so I could raise a rebellion and declare myself king.

Joke around all you like, but don't joke about my position as king of the monkeys.

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Later, Kong Kong finally got out from under Five Finger Mountain.

On his journey to fetch the scriptures, he took a moment to return to Flower-Fruit Mountain, only to discover that I was the only monkey left on the whole mountain.

I grabbed his leg and lied straight to his face, telling him how hard the five hundred years without him had been.

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Me, Kong Kong, just couldn't understand.

Five hundred years ago, I was full of swagger, wreaking havoc in Heaven and living without a care.

That got me locked up by the Buddha, leaving my monkey descendants without protection. The demons around here kept bullying them.

It upset me so much that I couldn't sleep at night. I'd have to sit up and slap myself twice.

It's all my fault...

Then one day, after arguing with that bald monk, I returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain to drink.

That's when I discovered that my only surviving monkey wasn't home at all.

How could they even go after the one little sprout in my family! I panicked. I really panicked. I grabbed my staff and followed my instincts to chase after him.

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And what did I find? A hidden paradise?

The descendants who were supposedly dead were all living in houses stacked like human pyramids.

A strong monkey was controlling some thing called a generator, which crackled with blue light. What kind of strange demon was it?

The White Bone Demon and Princess Iron Fan wore red sashes and grinned as if they wanted to eat people, saying, "Welcome!"

The Peach Blossom Demon was scrapping with the Spider Demon over the queue for getting membership cards.

As for the signboard...

The only three characters I could recognize were "beauty salon."

You got me, Lin Yi. You got me, you rascal of a monkey.

Blurb for the original no-romance light novel next door, "Thanks for Asking, I'm in the Wasteland, Making a Name for Myself Online"

After the gods were annihilated, miasma spread everywhere. Spirit- and demon-energy ran rampant, and order collapsed. People with special abilities formed demon-hunting bases to protect humanity.

Yet under pressure from countless monsters, humanity still faced a long, painful period of upheaval.

Then, in the year 3043 of the Eternal Night Era, legends appeared once more-

The human incarnation of the ancient god Jiang Ran was ambushed by the System and dropped into this era.

From the start, he found himself surrounded by countless monsters. The human base struggled to hold its ground, but reinforcements never arrived.

The salvation System, which had accidentally dropped him in the wrong place, clutched its Host and let out a string of piercing shrieks.

At the critical moment, the Host merely frowned in annoyance. "You're too loud. Quiet down."

With nothing more than a casual snap of his fingers, the first wave of monsters charging at them exploded. Torn limb from limb, they turned into wisps of black energy and were absorbed by him.

One snap, and a wave shattered. Another snap, and another wave shattered. He was even more Thanos than Thanos, though he did it while coughing up blood under the System's stunned gaze.

He still remembered to turn and steady the strawberry cake that a kind-hearted cafe owner had handed him earlier. The owner's face was now deathly pale.

It's no exaggeration to say that the System saw unmistakable fear on the faces of demon-energy beings, who had never known pain.

Salvation System: ??? Is this Host kind of awesome???

The ancient gods Jiang Ran strangled in their cradles one by one: TDTD! :)

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It took the demon-energy beings just four short months to go from swaggering around and eating whoever they wanted to dropping to their knees and making offerings to humanity.

But the journey of Jiang Ran, heaven-sent justice, the great pioneer of the era, and the light of humanity, was far from over. As time went on, the epic orange title above his head grew longer and longer.

Though he himself would never admit it, ahem.

But who says demon gods aren't gods? As long as you're on the same side, you're humanity's friend forever!

So said the humans who had once abandoned their faith to survive, but now eagerly built demon-god temples across the continent: #

#A max-level big shot leaves the beginner's village

#But the big shot insists on traveling incognito and acting like a newbie.

Theme: Technology changes lives.