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- 1 Better to Be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Than a Fighting Buddha! 宁为齐天圣，不当斗战佛！ (No System, no female lead, no protagonist suffering, no rules) Sun Wukong gets a second chance at life and learns the truth behind Journey to the West. This time, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven won't let anyone manipulate him. He'll battle Heaven and Earth. Everyone who plotted against him will die beneath his Ruyi Jingu Bang. Better to be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven than the Fighting Buddha! 61Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 2 The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, Awakened His System and Became Invincible 齐天大圣孙悟空觉醒了系统，无敌了 The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, awakened a System and became invincible. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 I, Old Sun, Am the Real Handsome Monkey King 俺老孙才是真的美猴王 "Tathagata, you hypocrite, you bastard..." "Old Sun fell for your trick again..." "Fell for your trick again..." Sun Wukong is struck down into a dark abyss. With Wutian's help, he returns to Spirit Mountain to settle the score with Tathagata. But what he never expected was that the final truth would be... 32Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 4 The Great Demon of Qitian: If Heaven Is Unjust, I'll Strike It Down 齐天大妖之天道不仁，我便伐天 The demon-revealing mirror was used three times. Di Ting lay on the ground, not daring to make a sound. The Buddha spoke, and declared: You are the Six-Eared Macaque. He is the real one. Five hundred years beneath Five Elements Mountain, more than ten years on the journey west, and every wound he suffered was all for nothing. It was all a lie. Flower-Fruit Mountain was taken from him, his monkeys and their kin were seized, and even his name was stolen. He split the peak of Spirit Mountain with o 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Journey to the West: This Hands-On Monkey Is Too Powerful! 西游：这个手操猴太强了！ [Journey to the West based on the 2026 version + no primordial world + no Sages + invincible Monkey Brother] Everyone says Sun Wukong is weak on the journey west, that even when he fights a monster, the battle ends in a “draw,” and that he often has to call for reinforcements. When a modern person transmigrates as Monkey Brother and gains a cheat that strengthens his magic whenever he kills a monster, he unleashes his full arsenal of divine abilities: clones beyond the body, the ability to mat 61Reads5.2Score10414d adds
- 6 Journey to the West: Defying Heaven in Search of the Dao 西游之逆天寻道 I will defy this Heaven and shatter this Dao. I want every living being in the Three Realms to remember my name: Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Great Sage Equal to Heaven 齐天大圣 The Buddha said the Monkey King was impure in his six senses, so they peeled his skin, ground his bones, blinded his eyes, shattered his heart, stole his love, and extinguished his soul, only to reincarnate him in hell. Was he the only one at the mercy of fate? But the Monkey King refused to accept his fate. One day, he would raise his Golden Cudgel against all the gods and Buddhas in the heavens. This is not a chapter of Journey to the West. This is the story of Sun Wukong. 374Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Great Sage: A Prequel 大圣前传 The Fighting Buddha, Sun Wukong, mysteriously returns to a past life, stripped of his magical powers and his Golden Cudgel. From then on, he sets out to reshape himself. Moving between the human, demon, and divine races, he experiences love and hatred, joy and sorrow, and grows into the greatest war god of the Three Realms. Journey to the West experts Qian Zhe Niu Niu San Bu and You Mao Seng will reveal the origins of Flower-Fruit Mountain, who lived in the Water Curtain Cave before Sun Wukong, 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Journey to the West: Cheating Tang Monk, Seizing the Ancestral Dragon to Snatch the Scriptures 西游：开挂唐僧，开祖龙抢经 After transmigrating into Journey to the West as Tang Sanzang, he binds himself to the Deadbeat System. The spread of Buddhism eastward? Sure. I’ll spread whatever I say! Buddhism’s rise is Heaven’s will? Whoever rises will do! “This poor monk has come from the Great Tang in the Eastern Lands. I’ve brought my brothers to Spirit Mountain to bring you to justice.” “What crime have I committed? You’ve committed plenty: unlawful confinement, brawling...” (Additional note: This book is the sole a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Sequel to Journey to the West 西天后传 The Journey West: The Sequel —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Twelve Guardians of the Four Mischievous Monkeys (Part One) 混世四猴之十二守卫（上集） The Four Mischievous Monkeys: The Twelve Guardians, Part One 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Supreme Treasure Becomes a Demon in His Third Life 至尊宝三世成魔 Five hundred years ago, Sun Wukong inexplicably murdered Tang Sanzang. Guanyin killed him while he was fleeing! He was reincarnated as the mortal Supreme Treasure! To uncover the truth behind what happened five hundred years ago, he returns to Flower-Fruit Mountain with Zixia, regains his primordial spirit body, and lifts layer after layer of mystery. But it seems the entire Three Realms is under the control of a dark force. The Jade Emperor and Tathagata are willing to reveal their ambitions ju 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Saiyan Divine Monkey 赛亚神猴 I was an ordinary man who couldn’t even kill a chicken, yet I taught Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. The moment he was born, he struck Tathagata, who could only stare in thought. Where did this Super Saiyan monkey come from? After staying up all night watching shows at an internet cafe with a friend, he watched Journey to the West while I watched Dragon Ball. Then I closed my eyes, opened them again, and found myself in the Journey to the West world my friend loved, with an ugly, ta 27Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 14 Journey to the West: I, Sun Wukong, Am Unmatched! 西游：我，孙悟空，无双！ Bound to an Arrogance System from the start, he sets off on a very different Journey to the West! He slaughters Tang Sanzang and enrages Guanyin. Does that bunch of stinking priests in the Celestial Court still not realize that the great calamity is coming? My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's! 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Journey to the West: Slaying the Nine-Headed Worm from the Start 西游：开局灭杀九头虫 Chen Le, a gaming otaku from the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrates to the world of Journey to the West and wipes out the Nine-Headed Insect right from the start... 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 The Rise of the Heroic Great Sage Equal to Heaven 齐天大圣之英雄崛起 A monkey from another time and space, with no scriptures to fetch. He hates evil and disrupts the schemes of immortals and Buddhas. Undying and indestructible, he roams freely across the Three Realms... When chaos returns, may he transform into compassion and bring light back to heaven and earth. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Journey to the East: I'm Not the Victorious Fighting Buddha 东游：我不是斗战胜佛 The Great Sage Equal to Heaven protected the holy monk on his journey west to obtain the scriptures. His fame spread across the Nine Provinces and his legend reached every corner of the world. All under heaven revered him! The history books say he was the inheritor of justice, the hope of mankind, a prodigal who turned back from the endless sea of suffering, and a battle god who laid down his butcher's knife and attained Buddhahood. But some questioned the truth of history and resolved to seek i 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Journey to the West: Please, Get Down the Mountain and Fetch the Scriptures Already 西游：求你了，快下山取经吧 He transmigrates into the world of Journey to the West as Sun Wukong and unexpectedly activates the System. Knowing how the story will unfold, Sun Wukong begins a cautious new journey. From then on, the whole tone of Journey to the West changes. Jade Emperor: Sun Wukong, why haven't you caused Havoc in Heaven yet? You really don't mind being a lowly Bimawen? Sun Wukong: Of course I don't mind. It's my honor to serve the Heavenly Court and be one of its members! 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Sun Wukong: The Greatest Trial, Mount Lingtai and Fangcun 孙悟空【最强一难灵台方寸山】 Who says Sun Wukong only knows how to fight? When Mount Lingshan is the board and the Three Realms are the pieces, I’m the player who flips the table. On the surface, I’m the “honest monkey” abandoned by Tang Sanzang and welcomed back into the group. In secret, I join forces with the Jade Emperor, who resents Mount Lingshan, sway the wavering Demon Realm Alliance, and even plant pawns within Buddhism itself. The Tathagata is a hypocrite? Guanyin is sinister? Maitreya Buddha is ambitious? Perfect 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 When the Foolish Old Man Meets Wukong, Moving Mountains Is a Breeze! 愚公遇悟空移山很轻松！ Sun Wukong waited five hundred years for someone destined to remove the talisman sealing him beneath the mountain. It wasn't Tang Sanzang, the handsome monk riding a white horse, but an old man carrying a pickaxe, whose mind was set on digging through mountains to open a road: Yu Gong. To repay his kindness, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven decided: Forget about fetching the scriptures. He'd spend a few years helping the old man dig through mountains first! Tang Sanzang, standing nearby, was dumbf 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Sun Wukong, the Victorious Fighting Buddha, and Tang Xuanzang 斗战胜佛孙悟空和唐玄奘 Even the Victorious Fighting Buddha, Sun Wukong, had his sentimental side. Here you'll find answers to Tang Xuanzang's Buddhist philosophy, Zhu Bajie's dreams of marrying a wife in Gao Village, and Sha Seng's remorse as a man who had done wrong. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Reborn in Journey to the West: I, Tianpeng, Am Done Trying 重生西游：我天蓬摆烂到底 Tianpeng is reborn and bound to a Slacker System! The Jade Emperor wants him to become a pig? He slacks off! The Tathagata wants him to fetch the scriptures? He phones it in! He slacks off with his brother Monkey and gets Nezha to lie flat with him. He can level up just by lying flat. Could slacking off really make him a big shot in the Three Realms? In this Journey to the West, whoever wants to compete can go ahead! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Breaking the Heavenly River, I Question the World with My Nine-Toothed Rake 天河破军，我以九齿钉耙问苍生 While you’re all still striving to attain enlightenment and become gods, I’ve already been rampaging through both the divine and Buddhist realms. The heavens become a chessboard, the stars a calamity. I wield my demon blade and cut down sages and saints. The earth becomes a pipa, its bones turned to strings. You play a deathly tune that shatters the Nine Abysses. Would you rather hear the wondrous music of Spirit Mountain collapsing, or watch the fireworks as the Hall of the Celestial Court fall 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Taking Disciples: Training Wukong and Yang Jian from the Start to Crush the Western Gods 收徒：开局调教悟空杨戬，干翻西方神 [Ensemble cast] [Apprentice-raising story] [Playing the long game] Zhao Qingfan wakes up to find he has transmigrated into a cultivation world and awakened an apprentice-raising System. He is overjoyed, thinking he'll finally have a chance to make his mark. But when he looks around, he is utterly dumbfounded. Why have the statues of the Dao Ancestors turned into Zeus and his two brothers? Damn it! They've taken over the place, and the world has turned upside down! To make matters worse, the sect 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 White Dragon Horse's Diary 白龙马日记 White Dragon Horse's Diary stars the Little White White Dragon, the dragon from Journey to the West who was banished to Eagle Sorrow Ravine. Written as a first-person diary, it chronicles his journey from being forced to serve as Tang Monk's mount to ultimately being appointed one of the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons. Blending immortal-hero fantasy with workplace humor, the book uses Little White Dragon's unique perspective to poke fun at the Eighty-One Tribulations along the pilgrimage: 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 I’m Sun Wukong 俺是孙悟空 If you were Sun Wukong, would you also journey west to fetch the scriptures? If I became Sun Wukong, wouldn't I look after all living beings? In truth, Wukong is a symbol. You and I are all Sun Wukong. This story is about me, and it's about you too. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Six-Eared Macaque: A Life of Long Regrets, Like the Ever-Flowing River 六耳：人生长恨水长东 What kind of ending could possibly be worthy of all the hardship and wandering along the way? I became the disciple of Erlang, the True Lord Who Manifests as a Sage! I studied under Patriarch Bodhi! I spent twenty-one years transformed into a tree! I fought the Great Sage Who Drives the Gods, the Monkey King! I severed love and desire and finally became a god! I pacified the Great Sage Who Overturns the Seas of the Western Sea! I ventured deep into the underworld and pardoned a million vengeful 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Sun Wukong Is Only an Incarnation 孙悟空只是一道化身 It turns out the Journey to the West was nothing but a conspiracy. Sun Wukong’s duplicate was merely a pawn, refined away by the Tathagata along the journey. Using his divine powers of transformation, the Tathagata replaced Sun Wukong with the Six-Eared Macaque, deceiving all three realms and pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. In a fit of rage, Sun Wukong’s true self stormed the Heavenly Court… Destroy Mount Spirit… Battle the Two Sages of the West… Rule the primeval world and remake it as t 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 29 The Bone Demon Didn't Deserve to Die? My Corrupted Wukong Crushes the Three Realms 白骨不该杀？我黑化悟空横推三界 After transmigrating into Journey to the West as Sun Wukong, he awakened the Black Myth Corruption System. As long as the Host kept descending into darkness, his strength would continue to grow. As it happened, Sun Wukong had beaten the White Bone Spirit three times and protected Tang Sanzang and the others. But then the sanctimonious monk spoke up. “Wicked disciple, if the demon had eaten me, it would have been my destiny!” “You are a monk, yet you have not rid yourself of your base nature and 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Journey to the West: I Am the Foremost of the Four Monkeys 西游：我为四猴之首 [Journey to the West + philosophical] I was lucky enough to come into this world. Is it a parallel world, or thousands of years in the past? There are more than just the Four Monkeys of Chaos in this world. There is also a Chaos Demon Ape. The Lingming Stone Monkey masters transformations, knows the weather and the lay of the land, and can shift the stars and change the constellations. The Red-Rumped Horse Monkey understands yin and yang, knows the ways of the world, is skilled at coming and goi 222Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Mad Monkey: The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal 疯猴：齐天大圣 The Tathagata’s second disciple, the Golden Cicada, traveled throughout the Four Great Continents. At Flower-Fruit Mountain, he preached to a stone, and at last the obstinate rock nodded, giving birth to Sun Wukong. Wukong later went to the Three Stars Cave on Slanting Moon Mountain to study the arts, where he happened upon the Golden Cicada being hunted by Mount Ling for “stealing scriptures.” The Golden Cicada took refuge at Flower-Fruit Mountain, indirectly passing his teachings on to Wukong. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 I, Sun Wukong, Swear to Destroy the Buddhist Order 我，孙悟空，发誓要覆灭佛门 On Mount Ling, his golden body shattered, and Sun Wukong’s soul was crushed to dust. The Six-Eared Macaque had stolen his identity and fate. In the Flower-Fruit Mountain of the Eastern Continent, a wisp of an avatar he had once left behind out of longing for his homeland quietly opened its eyes. It had no magic, no golden body, only boundless resentment and memories etched into its soul. In the body of a mortal monkey, he dragged himself back to the Mountain of the Heart and Mind, bowing three 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Seeking the Way on the Journey West 问道西行 I am Sun Wukong. After five hundred years of imprisonment, I was freed to escort Tang Sanzang west to obtain the scriptures. I thought the gods and Buddhas were righteous, and demons were evil. I believed that was the unbreakable law of the world. Until I saw the bloodbath in Renhe Town. The ten-thousand-year-old Cangya wielded the Seal of Heaven and Earth, Guardian of the Domain. He wanted no part in conflict and only sought to protect the people. The town's mortals and demons lived together —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Journey to the West: The Monkey Has Become a Sage, and You Still Say It Has Nothing to Do with You? 西游：猴子都成圣了，还说和你没关系？ Reborn in the world of Journey to the West, Su Che activates the Peerless Master System. All he has to do is take in the Children of Destiny. Teach them peerless divine abilities, and he receives feedback rewards worth a hundred times what his disciples gain. From the start, he sits in meditation for a hundred years. He takes in Sun Wukong, who is about to leave Mount Fangcun, and teaches him the Journey to the West version of the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force, powerful enough to prop 35Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 35 The Great Sage Is Losing It! Nezha, Bajie, Run! 齐天大圣要疯了，哪吒八戒快点跑 Passion, thrills, comedy, romantic tension, and chuunibyou. This is a story told by a slightly unhinged author... Sun Wukong: Aquarius ♒️ Bro, I only smoke Furongwang and only flirt with gorgeous babes. The flashy, badass young Sun Wukong slaughters his way through the eastern tropics, bathing Sakura Mountain in blood, then becomes sworn brothers with his father-in-law. After Sun Wukong develops dissociative identity disorder, Zhu Bajie and Nezha accompany him to see a doctor. The portal is dam 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Setting Out West Again 再踏西行路 The story of a horse and a man, and the things they simply had to do. This horse and this man actually did something like that to a little monkey! Is this a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality? And why can’t a young woman stop thinking about a pig? Tune in for Return to the Journey West, brought to you by the failed writer Volcano-Grilled Pig. This book is nothing but sweetness: love is honey, sweet enough to hurt. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Journey to the West: From the Start, I Tame Sun Wukong 西游之开局收服孙悟空 Pang Ji accidentally transmigrated to the world of Journey to the West and obtained an Apprentice-Recruiting System. When he learned he was at Fangcun Mountain, he thought to himself, Sorry, Patriarch Bodhi. Sun Wukong is mine. You’ve got so many other disciples, after all. 40Reads5.7Score514d adds
- 38 Transmigrating Into the Ultraman World: I Am the Light! 穿越奥特世界：我，即是光！ Transmigrate to the Ultraman World: I Am the Light! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 After Being Laid Off, I Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty and Became the Top Scholar 被裁员后，我穿越明朝当状元 After Being Laid Off, I Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty and Became the Top Scholar —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Deliveryman: From the Start, I Handed Over a Cultivation World, and the Nation Helped Me Become an Immortal 外卖员：开局上交修仙界，国家助我先成仙 Food Delivery Rider: From the Start, I Handed Over the Cultivation World, and the Nation Helped Me Become an Immortal First —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 I, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Refuse to Become a Buddha! 我，齐天大圣，誓不成佛! Transmigrated into Journey to the West, he becomes Sun Wukong, awakens a System, and refuses to become a Buddha! I, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, worship no gods, seek no Buddha, and ask nothing of the Dao. I can still be invincible in this world! 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Six-Eared Macaque and Wukong 六耳与悟空 A transmigrated soul takes over and replaces the life that should have belonged to Sun Wukong, while the real Wukong becomes a bloodthirsty monster. Their identities set them against each other, but fate binds them together. Consumed by regret, he decides to return everything to its rightful owner. As they spend their days together and endure hardship, a different kind of feeling seems to grow between them… But this world appears to be facing an even greater problem… 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Sun Wukong’s Nuwa Stone 孙悟空之女娲石 This book tells the story of Sun Wukong after he has completed his journey to the Western Heaven and been named the Victorious Fighting Buddha. After fighting Erlang Shen, Yang Jian, he is ambushed from behind by the Howling Celestial Dog and loses his golden cudgel. In the end, he passes away, and his wife, the Fairy Zixia, buries him among a pile of stones. Who would have guessed that one of those stones was a Nuwa Stone? The energy released by the Nuwa Stone brings Sun Wukong back to life and 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Work Diary of the Abnormal Human Research Center 非正常人类研究中心工作日记 Work Diary of the Abnormal Human Research Center 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 45 High Martial: Records of the Cyber City Taixu 高武：赛博都市太虚录 High Martial: The Taixu Chronicles of a Cyberpunk City —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Sister-Protecting Maniac! Rabid Madman! From Deathmatch to Slaying Gods! 护妹狂魔！疯狗狂徒！从死斗杀到神明！ Sis-Obsessed! Rabid Madman! From Deathmatch to Godhood! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Imprisoned Phoenix: The Tyrant Would Redeem Himself With His Empire for Me 囚凰：暴君为我愿意拿江山赎罪 The Imprisoned Phoenix: The Tyrant Is Willing to Redeem His Sins with His Empire —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Conquering Myriad Worlds, I Am Invincible! 逆战万界，我无敌了！ I Defy All the Worlds, and I’m Invincible! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Redemption of a Kidnapped Girl and a Scrap-Collecting Granny 被拐少女与拾荒阿婆的救赎 The Redemption of a Kidnapped Girl and an Old Scrap Collector —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 I, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Refuse to Fetch the Scriptures 我，齐天大圣，绝不取经 Sun Dasheng transmigrates into the world of Journey to the West and becomes the Monkey King. All the gods and Buddhas in heaven are waiting for him to protect Tang Sanzang on the journey to Thunderclap Monastery to obtain the scriptures, but he goes on strike... Ding! Host detected on strike. Reward: Celestial Immortal cultivation! Ding! Host detected driving away the Lord of Thunder and the Mother of Lightning and continuing the strike. Reward: divine weapons! Ding! Host detected ignoring the C 66Reads—Score—14d adds
