Novels like Under Patriarch Bodhi, Life and Death of All Things
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- 1 Journey to the West: Following the Great Sage to Retrieve the Scriptures 西游：跟着大圣去取经 Bad news: A hard-luck college student dies suddenly and transmigrates into Journey to the West, starting out as a little monkey on Flower-Fruit Mountain. You've got to be kidding me! Good news: Sun Wukong hasn't been born yet. As long as I cling to this powerful ally... No System, no golden finger. Transmigration, slow build-up, and leveling up. Cosmic horror elements appear partway through. Read at your own risk if that's not your thing. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 After My Inner Thoughts Were Exposed, I Started Slacking Off and Making Money! 心声泄露后，我开始摆烂搞钱！ [Wacky comedy + strong female lead + Journey to the West + anime style + demonic transformation + modern transmigration] Also known as My Mortifying Antics Shamed an Entire Cultivation World Xiao Yuxuan, a domineering modern heiress, is kicked straight into Journey to the West and becomes a primordial chaos spirit crow. The entire Three Realms can hear her thoughts! The stone monkey hears her spoilers, abandons Bodhi, and awakens demonic energy; Tang Sanzang is forced into servitude by her and g 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Journey to the West: Three Rebellious Brats Defy Heaven and Wreak Havoc on the Gods and Buddhas 西游，三大反骨仔反天，坑惨神佛 [Funny Journey to the West + three rebellious troublemakers defy Heaven + kill, never redeem + storm the Western Heaven for the scriptures] [That day, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven was imprisoned beneath Five Elements Mountain by the Buddha Tathagata. Patriarch Bodhi couldn’t bear to see Sun Wukong suffer.] [He immediately sent his disciple Yuan Zhen, disguised as an ordinary human, to Five Elements Mountain to look after Sun Wukong.] [But Yuan Zhen had transmigrated from the modern world. He i 10.1kReads8.1Score76514d adds
- 4 Rules of the Journey to the West: I Am the Great Sage 规则西游：我为大圣 Exclusive on Tomato! Sun Wukong becomes a breaker of rules, and Flower-Fruit Mountain is targeted for BUG removal? The gods and Buddhas are having a collective meltdown! Who else gets it, folks? Other people transmigrate into Journey to the West and follow the script: pay their respects, seek the scriptures, and play their parts. I transmigrate as Sun Wukong: from the start, I rip apart the Tathagata’s code and smash the rules chain of Five Elements Mountain! [System: You are a world BUG, born t 2Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 5 Journey to the West: There Is a Deer on the Mountain 西游之山有鹿 My name is Yang San. I used to be a person. Then I transmigrated into the mountains and became a deer. Honestly, being a deer isn’t so bad. I don’t have to work; I can sleep whenever I want, then wake up and graze. Life is wonderful. Until one day, I discovered... 923Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 6 Journey to the West: Wukong, It’s Been a While Since We Parted at Mount Fangcun 西游：悟空方寸山一别，近来可好 (Journey to the West + Buddhas and demons + behind-the-scenes scheming; the author may write Lotus Lantern later) Kong Yao woke up in a daze to find himself in the world of Journey to the West. A monkey had come to his door to ask to become his disciple. Kong Yao was completely flustered. Looking at Sun Wukong standing in front of him, he could barely think straight. At that point, Sun Wukong was still a little monkey who bounced around wherever he went. After emerging from seclusion, Kong Yao l 1.2kReads7.0Score13914d adds
- 7 Journey to the West: Signing In to the Four Chaos Monkeys from the Start! 西游：开局签到混世四猴！ Reborn into Journey to the West, he gains a sign-in System! Sign-in at the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Stone succeeds, granting him the body of the Lingming Stone Monkey! Skilled in transformations, able to shift the stars and turn the Dipper! Sign-in at Flower-Fruit Mountain succeeds, granting him the body of the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey! He understands yin and yang, knows the ways of the world, avoids death and prolongs life! He can cross the sea as if it were flat land! Sign-in at Meishan succe 417Reads8.8Score8814d adds
- 8 Journey to the West: I Became Invincible After Fusing the Bloodlines of Ten Thousand Races 西游：融合万族血脉后我无敌了 Sun Yu was reborn in the world of Journey to the West. He awakened first inside the Stone of Creation, becoming Sun Wukong's big brother. He fused the bloodlines of the Four Primordial Monkeys, achieving the bloodline of the Chaos Demon Ape. He fused the bloodlines of the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches, achieving the bloodline of Pangu. Many years later, Sun Yu stood at the pinnacle of the primordial world. I don't care if Buddhism wants to rise to prominence, but using my younger 6.8kReads9.1Score69714d adds
- 9 Writing Novels in Journey to the West, Even the Sages Are Begging for the Next Chapter! 人在西游写小说，圣人都来催更了！ A web novelist transmigrates to the world of Journey to the West and starts out with a copy of Battle Through the Heavens, drawing the Monkey King to him as a disciple. What's cultivation? What's Journey to the West? Nothing beats reading a novel! Determined to write a masterpiece, he takes the Monkey King as a disciple and racks his brains. The Monkey King wreaks havoc across the Three Realms, all to find inspiration for his writing. And that's not all. When Nezha reads Nezha: Birth of the Demo 1.5kReads8.9Score12814d adds
- 10 Great Sage Siblings: Crush Lingshan and Slay the Buddhas 大圣兄妹：踏碎灵山弑诸佛 [Completed] [Reimagined Journey to the West + Deep Sibling Bond + Journey to the West Revisited] [Sun Wukong has no romantic pairing] [Uncover the secrets behind the Investiture of the Gods. Li Jing and Nezha mend their relationship and join forces against the Heavenly Dao.] In the story of the fake and real Monkey King, it was Wukong who died. Reborn from the Immortal Stone, Sun Wukong discovered that he had gained a younger sister, Taisu, who devoured heavenly treasures and earthly delicacies. 4.6kReads9.0Score81614d adds
- 11 These Days as the Great Sage's Older Sister Have Worn Me Out 我当大圣姐姐这些日子，操碎了心 Sun Rong wakes from a nap to find that she has inexplicably transmigrated to the world of Journey to the West. She plans to lay low until the journey is over, only to discover that she has become Sun Wukong's elder sister, born from the same source. She panics. If the Buddhist sect learns that a variable like her exists, will they spare her? They would probably want to snuff her out before she is even born. To survive, she must defy fate and disrupt the great calamity of Journey to the West. Wha 4.6kReads9.1Score81214d adds
- 12 Journey to the West: From the Start, I Was Blessed by a Glimmer of the Dao Ancestor’s Gaze 西游：开局被道祖的一缕目光赐福 The world of Journey to the West, where all living things survive like ants, where demons swallow immortals to show their might, where the history of the immortals stretches from ancient times to the present, and mighty beings plot against all living things! A transmigrator is born with golden finger prompts, then journeys through endless mythical wonders! 14.8kReads8.9Score78814d adds
- 13 Journey to the West: From Stable Hand in the Heavenly Court to Powerhouse Through Relentless Grinding 西游：人在天庭御马监，爆肝变强 Reborn and transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West. Qin Heng becomes a guard in the Imperial Stables of Heaven and awakens a proficiency panel. All he has to do is grind hard to grow stronger. One day in Heaven equals one year on Earth. At this point... there are seven days left until Sun Wukong ascends to Heaven and becomes Bimawen! 45.5kReads8.1Score5.1k14d adds
- 14 A Treacherous Minister in Journey to the West: Starting by Threatening the Seven Fairies! 西游奸臣：从威胁七仙女开始！ [Once Had Over a Million Readers] "Your Majesty, this is bad! The monkey has stormed Heaven!" The Jade Emperor waved a hand. "Don't worry. I have Gu Jing, the God of Punishment, on our side. Mere Sun Wukong is nothing to fear." Why are screams ringing out from the Moon Palace?! Why is the Nine Heavens Fairy sobbing without end?! Why is the Hundred Flowers Fairy secretly grinning?! He wreaks havoc in Heaven, deceives those above and below, and lays down the law across the Three Realms! Gu Jing's 13kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 15 Journey to the West Simulator: Becoming a Sage Begins at Flower-Fruit Mountain 西游模拟器：成圣从花果山开始 [Journey to the West + Investiture of the Gods + Primordial World + Simulator] Sun Yuan transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West. He waited on Flower-Fruit Mountain for Sun Wukong to be born and bound himself to a Journey to the West Simulator. From then on, he never looked back on the road to unstoppable power. [At three, you come to gaze at that immortal stone again. It cracks open, and the Stone Monkey is born. You become the first monkey he ever meets.] [At ten, you set out to sea 7.7kReads8.6Score82514d adds
- 16 Journey to the West: Travelogue 西游旅记 An ordinary young man wakes up one day to find himself in another world, where everyone calls him the Tang Monk... “I'm doing the Journey to the West? Seriously?” “I'll see all eighty-one thousand miles and laugh my way through eighty-one tribulations?” “I'm just a gentle monk with little fighting ability, but my three disciples are another story.” “Amitabha. I kill to protect life; I destroy karma, not people.” “Wukong, once we've retrieved the scriptures, do you think your master could return 12.6kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 17 I, Sun Wukong, Am Invincible 2: The Other Shore 我孙悟空无敌2彼岸世界 [The Strongest Sun Wukong in History] [A Continuation of the Journey to the West] The second installment in the Great Sage Returns series. The prequel, I, Sun Wukong, Am Invincible, is complete, and the sequel, The Great Sage Returns 3: Endless Journey, is now updating! “Immortality... origins... our journey leads to the endless other shore...” In the chaos realm, Wukong revives from the Coffin of Chaos. He now possesses the most powerful force in all of chaos, yet the secrets hidden behind the 10.7kReads9.5Score84414d adds
- 18 Black Myth: Whoever Bullies Wukong, I’ll Bring Down the Heavens! 黑神话：谁欺负悟空，大师姐我掀了这天！ [No romance + Journey to the West + adored by everyone + unbeatable workaholic + face-slapping] After transmigrating into a book, Yan Wuling becomes the high-risk character known as the Eldest Senior Sister. She spends seven years being a lazy freeloader to save her own skin. Only when she meets a little monkey seeking the Way to immortality does she realize she has transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West! Yan Wuling: “What? You want me to disrupt the great calamity of the Journey to 16.7kReads9.5Score2.8k14d adds
- 19 A Monk of Your Rank Has No Right to Seek the Scriptures Yet 你这个级别的僧人，还没权利取经 [Officialdom and Journey to the West + cultivation through construction work + In the Name of the People (Immortal Edition) + wild imagination] I transmigrated to the cultivation world. After ascending, I became a grunt in the Heavenly Court's Infrastructure Department. After three thousand years, I finally worked my way up to project manager, in charge of the South Heavenly Gate expansion project. The day before the final inspection, I was stuffing “local specialties” into an envelope. A constr 169kReads9.4Score18.3k14d adds
- 20 The Great Sage Returns: Sun Wukong Vows to Slaughter Every God and Buddha! 大圣归来，我孙悟空誓必屠尽神佛！ As the four disciples of Tang Sanzang received their titles on Spirit Mountain, a man who looked like a beggar stood at its foot, disdain in his eyes. He muttered bitterly, “Tathagata, I, Old Sun, will be back.” A different Journey to the West, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven's journey of revenge. 29.3kReads9.1Score6.6k14d adds
- 21 Revisiting the Journey to the West: I Lead Three Rebellious Troublemakers in Rebellion Every Day 重走西游：姐拉三大反骨仔天天反 [Journey to the West fanfic + hilarious antics + punchline-packed + healing and redemption for each other + Heaven's three rebellious troublemakers + retracing the journey west] On my first start, Nezha stabbed the Destined One to death! On my next start, Erlang Shen's dog bit me to death! On my third start, I forgot the gold headband and got beaten to death by Sun Wukong! Tang An: “So I’ve been transmigrated as the new Destined One, and I have to go fetch the scriptures? And I have to get those 21.7kReads9.4Score2.9k14d adds
- 22 EN Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖 [Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost 169.8kReads9.5Score17.3k14d adds
