Novels like Sun Wukong: If I Become a Demon, There Will Be No Buddhas in the World
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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! 59Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 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. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 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... 27Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 4 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 61Reads5.2Score104Shelves
- 5 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. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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—Shelves
- 7 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—Shelves
- 8 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—Shelves
- 9 The Fifth Pilgrim: I Am Fangcun Mountain's Last Disciple 取经第五人：吾乃方寸山关门弟子 (No Heroine + Monkey Brother Doted On by Everyone + No Angst) “How did my clever, well-behaved disciple become the unruly, worthless monkey you describe?” At Mount Lingtai Fangcun, Patriarch Bodhi sits cross-legged on his cushion, frowning slightly. “This little monkey…” “Xiao Jiu, go in my place.” With Patriarch Bodhi’s sigh, the pilgrimage party gains a new “advisor.” “What? We can’t kill monsters with powerful backers?” “Little monkey, you’re getting attached to appearances. Home-raised ones 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Journey to the West: Sun Wukong Is Spoiled from the Start 西游：当孙悟空开局就被剧透 [No System + Leveling Progression + No Female Lead + Imaginative Premise] What choices would Sun Wukong make if he knew his whole life from the start? Brother Monkey: Thanks, I’ve already packed a bucket and run away in the middle of the night. (Not really.) After being spoiled, the monkey avoids every pitfall and becomes a workaholic, waking earlier than the chickens and going to bed later than the dogs. He also makes sure to expand his territory and gather as many friends as possible. Just 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Level 500 in Black Myth, and Still a Nobody 黑神话五百级吗喽 Even a monkey wants to become the Great Sage Equal to Heaven! A five-hundred-level monkey from the start, shocking the world of Journey to the West! Today, this monkey will show the world of Journey to the West that a monkey’s life matters too, and that its lifespan should be as long as Heaven’s! Watch as one monkey turns the entire Journey to the West upside down! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Great Sage Equal to Heaven? No, I’m Heaven’s Favorite 齐天大圣？不，我是天庭团宠本 The Celestial Court was already in an uproar before the immortal stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain had even cracked. The Jade Emperor held up a broken shard of the Thousand-Mile Eye. “That golden light! The future protector is practicing the fiery golden eyes!” The Old Lord of the Southern Pole stared at the moss growing from the crack in the stone. “Look at that spiritual energy. It must be excellent material for refining pills!” Guanyin cradled a lotus with only a few petals left. “Amitabha. It h 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 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. 379Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Black Myth: Wukong! A Faithful Game Adaptation 黑神话：悟空！游戏还原 The Three Realms are collapsing, the Four Continents are in chaos, the Six Paths are out of order, and all living beings are suffering! In this world, humans and ghosts are hard to tell apart, gods and Buddhas are no different from demons, heaven is no longer heaven, and earth is no longer earth. There is nothing to hope for and no one to save. Right and wrong have been turned upside down! They slaughter at will in pursuit of immortality, and trample the masses while preaching salvation in their 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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—Shelves
- 16 The Sequel to Journey to the West 西天后传 The Journey West: The Sequel —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 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 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 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 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 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—Shelves
- 20 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—Shelves
- 21 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—Shelves
- 22 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—Shelves
- 23 Journey to the West: I Take Advice at Mount Fangcun 西游：我在方寸山听劝 Sun Wukong spent seven years cooling his heels at Mount Fangcun before finally awakening a cross-dimensional Advice-Taking System. As long as he treats netizens' suggestions like imperial decrees, he can redeem a “Great Sage Trial Card.” From Qin Shi Huang's spirit possessing him and demanding money to buy peaches, to American netizens teaching him the Thirty-Six Stratagems online, the Patriarch's Yellow Court Scripture gets replaced with “Five Years of Cultivation, Three Years of Tribulation.” 408Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Shelves
- 25 Black Myth: Child of Destiny 黑神话：天命之子 [Wildly imaginative + slow burn + not a power fantasy + Black Myth + apocalypse + fan fiction + invincible + ---] After playing Black Myth: Wukong nonstop for 48 hours, he forgot to eat, drink, use the bathroom, or sleep. The moment he finished the entire game, he collapsed onto his computer desk. As his spirit left his body, Wukong began entering another Black Myth world--- An apocalyptic era, overrun by demons and monsters, with humanity suffering terribly. Armed with Wukong’s divine powers, W 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Reborn as Black Wukong? 重生之黑·悟空？ Reborn as the Dark Wukong? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Journey to the West: The Great Sage Who Proves the Dao Through Slaughter 西游：以杀证道的大圣 The Buddha of the West never lowers his head to look upon the world's suffering and evil; the gods of the Heavenly Court preach doctrines only for their own gain. When sages do not die, great thieves never cease; Heaven's way is unpredictable, and all living beings suffer. At the dawn of primordial chaos, nothing had an innate nature; to break through ignorance, one must awaken to emptiness. 673Reads8.3Score104Shelves
- 28 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! 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Who Stands on the Execution Platform? A Forsaken Disciple of Mount Fangcun 诛仙台上何人？灵台方寸山弃徒 My name is Chen Fan, and I'm a transmigrator. My wish is simple: find a mountain, raise a few fish, and live as an ordinary carefree rogue immortal. But reality is this: I've been bound to the Immortal-Slaying Platform. To stay alive, I have no choice but to fall back on the skills every overworked wage slave knows best: acting, bluffing, and clinging to powerful allies! With a karma editor that can help me “find my family,” I managed to secure the strongest backing in all three realms. The ov 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Journey to the West: We Agreed to Lay Low Until We Became Saints, So How Dare You Touch My Junior Brother? 西游：说好苟成圣，你敢动我师弟 [Journey to the West in the early chapters, the Primordial World later on] You ask what it’s like to transmigrate into the world of Journey to the West and become Sun Wukong’s senior fellow disciple? My name is Lin Jie, and my experience can be summed up in one word: exhausting. I only wanted to lie flat and keep a low profile on Mount Fangcun. After all, my System said that as long as I did nothing and kept hiding until the end of the great Journey to the West tribulation, I could become a Sage 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 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—Shelves
- 33 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—Shelves
- 34 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—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 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—Shelves
- 37 Journey to the West: I, Sun Wukong, Will Become a Sage 西游：我孙悟空要成圣 Sun Wukong is reborn. He thought he’d be able to trample the Jade Emperor underfoot and beat Tathagata to a pulp. But in this life, his opponents are the Heavenly Dao Hongjun, the Sage Jieyin, the Sage Zhunti, and the hidden Demon Gods. And his teammates are even more outrageous: Patriarch Bodhi, the Demon God of Karma and half of Destiny; Sage Pingxin, the avatar of the Netherworld Dao and Lady Houtu; the Sage Taiqing; the Sage Nuwa; the Three Sovereigns of Humanity; the Eleven Ancestral Witche 1Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 38 Journey to the West: Honghuang Rebooted 西游之洪荒重启 Equal to Heaven: equal in lifespan to the heavens, boundless as the earth. Only when the heavens cannot destroy him and the earth cannot make him perish can he truly be called Equal to Heaven! He is Sun Wukong, the one who dares point his staff at the blue sky, the unruly, arrogant, overbearing Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven who gave himself that title! His sword's frost chill sweeps across fourteen provinces. He is Li Taibai, hailed by the people as the Sage of Poetry, yet also a sw 79Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 39 Journey to the West: Even Sun Wukong Is Arrogant 西游：孙悟空也嚣张 (Primordial World + Comedy + System + Invincible + All-Out Brawls + No Female Lead) Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve obtained a Gatling gun. Mecha World: Battle Tyrannosaurus, Tiger King, Wild Ape King, can your old Sun be the Mecha King? Chaos World: True God Bai Jue, True God Tian Qi, True God Chi Yang, will you submit to your old Sun? Bodhi World: Master, have you admitted you were wrong yet? Earth World: Hongjun, how about taking a trip to north 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Journey to the West: I Swore Brotherhood with Three Demons From the Start 西游：开局就和三个妖怪结拜 Jiang Lin: Do I really have to go fetch the scriptures? Li Shimin: Shubao, Jingde, take him down! Jiang Lin: Brother Monkey, come with me to fetch the scriptures! We’ll have grilled meat, fine wine, and female monkeys in the future. Sun Wukong: I don’t want female monkeys! Jiang Lin: Little White Dragon, what kind of person are you? Fine, a peach-colored horse is still a horse! I’ll ride either way! Jiang Lin: Brother Monkey, let that monster go and let this humble monk handle it! 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 From the Start, I Join the Three Stars Cave and Protect Wukong on His Quest for the Sutras 开局拜入三星洞，我护悟空取真经 This is, without a doubt, the most outrageous pilgrimage party in the history of the Three Realms! Tang Sanzang is chanting scriptures, Wukong is fighting, and Bajie is stuffing his face. And Senior Brother Qin Mu... is ordering takeout on his tablet?! Qin Mu: “Wukong, go chop off that Nine-Headed Bug’s heads. I’m craving charcoal-grilled octopus tentacles.” (raises an eyebrow) Sun Wukong: “Senior Brother, that’s a Nine-Headed Bug, not an octopus...” Qin Mu: “(opens his Chaos Double Pupils) If I 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Honghuang: I Am Subhuti, Shielding My Disciple from the Heavens 洪荒：我为须菩提，为徒遮天 Please support my new book. Thank you, everyone. Chen Yu, a young man from the modern world, unexpectedly transmigrates and takes over the body of Subhuti in the Primordial World. At that time, the Primordial World has just endured the Dragon-Han Calamity. Old Ancestor Hongjun has become a Sage and is preparing to preach. Drawing on his memories of a past life, Chen Yu knows how the future will unfold. He decides to make his mark in this world at the dawn of chaos as Subhuti, seeking the path to 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Black Myth: The Fighting Buddha, Black Wukong 黑神话之战斗圣佛黑悟空 Journey to the West is a fantastical long novel from ancient China. Inspired by the Tang monk Xuanzang’s journey to the Western Heaven to obtain Buddhist scriptures, the story follows Tang Sanzang and his three disciples as they face the legendary Eighty-One Tribulations on their journey. Tang Sanzang is kindhearted and compassionate, though sometimes overly rigid. Sun Wukong is immensely powerful, quick-witted, and brave. His Seventy-Two Transformations and Somersault Cloud make him the team’s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Wukong Meets the Eldest Disciple on the Journey to the West 取经途中悟空偶遇大师兄 On the journey to retrieve the scriptures, Wukong unexpectedly ran into his senior brother. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Immortal Stone Code: The True Origin of the Journey to the West System 仙石代码：西游系统的本源真相 Breaking Down Journey to the West on Livestream: Wu Cheng’en’s “Writing Secrets” Were Deeply Buried Classical-text deconstructionist Su Yunting brings the “Wenxin Diaolong” System to his livestream, giving Journey to the West a whole new interpretation. He says the immortal stone at the beginning wasn’t described that way at random: its height of three zhang, six chi, and five cun corresponds to the 365 degrees of the celestial sphere, while its circumference of two zhang and four chi represen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Enter at Your Own Risk: Everyone’s an Evil Immortal, and Every Identity Is Different 慎入全员恶仙！每次身份都不一样 The Second Tale of Sun Wukong: Peace Across the Six Realms! [Not a conventional hot-blooded story] [Role-playing] [Missions] [Parts One and Two are connected] (If this isn’t your kind of book, don’t click on it. There are countless good books in the catalog.) Seeds of evil immortals have been sown across the Six Realms. The Dao, immortals, Buddhas, spirits, demons, and gods are all evil immortals. Read at your own risk! Mission One: “Your new identity is the foolish son of the White Bone Demon. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 I, Old Sun, Will Never Become a Buddha in This Life 俺老孙，这辈子绝不成佛 Old Sun here will never become a Buddha in this life. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Black Myth: Journey to the West: I'm Really Not the Great Sage Equal to Heaven 黑神话西游：我真不是齐天大圣 [Black Myth: Wukong, set in the Black Myth universe] Qi Sheng transmigrated. Not only had he become a monkey, he was also trapped in a desolate mountain where not even birds would leave droppings. It was nothing but corpses as far as the eye could see. He thought he’d be trapped there for the rest of his life. But when he woke from a nap, everything had changed. A crowd of people eagerly rushed to kneel and beg him to take them as disciples. What are you people doing?! I really don’t know the Se 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Black Myth: Wukong! 黑神话，悟空！ A story adapted from the hit game Black Myth: Wukong. My new work is out now! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Journey to the West: I, Sun Wukong, Am Being Livestreamed to the Future 西游：我孙悟空在被后世直播 By a twist of fate, before Sun Wukong was even born, a livestream room opened in the future. People from the future could post comments to interfere with events and witness the real Journey to the West. Viewer: Great Sage, don’t swear brotherhood with those demons! They’re just using you as their pawn and setting you up! Viewer: Great Sage, there’s a lot going on in Heaven and Spirit Mountain. Take it easy, and don’t wreak havoc in Heaven just yet. Viewer: Great Sage, you actually have powerful 161Reads6.2Score—Shelves
