Novels like Playing a Monster on the Journey to the West
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- 1 Xuanzang's Journey into the Journey to the West 闯入西游的玄奘 After Xuanzang of history passed away, he transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West and discovered that Li Shimin there was his sworn elder brother. What stories will they have in the world of Journey to the West? What new adventures await him and his three disciples? This Xuanzang from history isn't timid or indecisive. He sincerely cares for his disciples. This is a completely reimagined Journey to the West, a story of souls transmigrating, being reborn, and transmigrating again. It 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn as Tang Sanzang, I'm Really Not a One-Punch Man! 重生成唐僧，我真不是一拳超人！ [Invincible] [Misunderstandings] [One-Punch Man] I transmigrated into Journey to the West and was reborn as Jiang Liu'er. I was destined to become Tang Sanzang and journey west to fetch the scriptures. Just thinking about a world teeming with demons and gods, while I was an ordinary mortal with no magic powers, terrified me. To protect myself, I could only imitate Saitama, the bald powerhouse from the island anime I knew in my previous life, and keep training. After three years of grueling pract 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Journey to the West: From the Start, Accompanying the Tang Emperor on a Tour of the Underworld 西游：开局陪着唐王游地府 (The rating has only just been released and will rise later. No female lead + scheming protagonist + gradual growth + ensemble cast) When the head of the Jing River Dragon King fell from the sky above Chang'an City, Liu Zhong knew this wasn't an ordinary Tang Dynasty. His first thought was to seek immortality through cultivation. But because he resembled Wang Lin, the legitimate grandson of the Taiyuan Wang Clan, Sun Chong mistook him for a scapegoat and shoved him into the palace guard. Unfortu 1kReads5.4Score122Shelves
- 4 Reborn as the Dragon Palace's Third Prince in a Woman's Body, Bro! Go Fetch the Scriptures 穿成女身龙宫三太子，哥！取经去 [Journey to the West fanfic + the Heavenly Court’s three most rebellious souls + System + goofy comedy] The story follows the Journey to the West route~ No romance! Pure brotherly redemption! A no-brain feel-good story. No CP! We’ll fight our way up to Heaven at the slightest provocation! Roaming all over the Three Realms, going wherever we please! Dad! Explain yourself! Am I really your daughter? Wait, did you mix me up with someone else?! Think carefully! The year I was born, did you acciden 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Stone Monkey Died the Moment He Was Born, and the Gods Went Mad! 石猴出世即逝世，诸天神佛疯了！ My name is Lu Yao. I transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West, hoping to cultivate immortality in peace. But I discovered that the immortal stone I'd been looking after was actually nurturing the future Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong! The Buddhist Sect wanted to use the monkey to obtain the scriptures. The Heavenly Court wanted to use him to carry out its schemes. Everyone was waiting for the stone monkey to be born. So I did something about it: I made the stone monkey —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Journey to the West: Starting by Inheriting Gouchen Temple 西游：从继承勾陈观开始 After transmigrating into the world of Journey to the West, Zhong Xuanzhi becomes the abbot of a temple dedicated to the Great Emperor Gouchen Shanggong Tianhuang in the Tang Empire. To attain the Dao and live forever, Zhong Xuansheng devotes himself to cultivating the Longevity Scripture. Every day, he copies the sacred proclamation of the Great Emperor Gouchen Shanggong three thousand times, hoping only to catch a single glimpse of the Great Emperor Gouchen. He seeks nothing of the mortal wo 29Reads—Score310Shelves
- 7 Journey to the West: You Drink and Eat Meat, and You Call Yourself a Holy Monk? 西游：喝酒吃肉，你说你是圣僧？ [Not Primordial Chaos] [Lighthearted and Hilarious] [Winning Over Women] [Follows the Original Story] When Liu Bin realized he had become Tang Sanzang, the monk traveling west to fetch the scriptures, he was devastated. No meat? No alcohol? No women? What kind of miserable life was this?! Luckily, his cheat ability might be late, but it had finally arrived: [Eat meat, Strength +1!] [Drink alcohol, Defense +1!] [Get intimate with a woman... Ahem, Stamina +10?!] Liu Bin: Got it. So I’m supposed to 26.2kReads8.5Score3.2kShelves
- 8 Journey to the West: I Am Dobo Tang Monk 西游：我乃哆宝唐僧 [Doraemon / invincible protagonist / comedy / no conspiracy theories / kindness and truth] Doraemon transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West and took over Tang Sanzang's role as the Pilgrim. From then on, the entire tone of Journey to the West changed. What demons and monsters? What divine steeds? Standing before you now is a 22nd-century robotic cat: Doraemon!!! The Purple Gold Gourd? The Vajra Bracelet? The Human Seed Bag? Just watch me use the Dictator Button! The Devil's Passport! 26.4kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 9 Journey to the West: The Great Sage Equal to Heaven's True Power 西游：齐天大圣的真实战力 I transmigrated and became Tang Sanzang. I saw with my own eyes how Brother Monkey, while breaking free, rode the Somersault Cloud through the sky and demonstrated his martial arts with earthshaking grandeur. I also witnessed him hastily knock the Little White Dragon to the brink of death with a single punch at Eagle Sorrow Ravine. I even saw Brother Monkey fully armed, fighting alone against... This is the story of Journey to the West, the story of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. I will tell ev 2.4kReads8.6Score169Shelves
- 10 Daiyu’s Journey West: Pilgrimage or Party Crashing? 黛玉西行记：取经？还是砸场子 [Journey to the West x Dream of the Red Chamber + Sacred Daiyu Couple + Lighthearted Comedy + Reworking the Eighty-One Tribulations] They meet for the first time beneath Five Elements Mountain. Wukong opens his mouth and calls her Master. Daiyu coolly retorts, "You've got a pair of bright, shining eyes, yet you call me Master without looking. Can't you see I'm a woman?" Guanyin offers her a golden headband. Daiyu smiles faintly. "Who in the Three Realms doesn't have a headband of their own?" Whe 119Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Journey to the West: You’re Already a Monkey, What More of a Cheat Do You Need? 西游，你都成了猴子还要什么挂 A monkey who began training three hundred years early has made every possible preparation to avoid being crushed beneath Five Elements Mountain. Will he be able to change his fate this time? A pure Journey to the West setting, with no connection to Investiture of the Gods. 11.5kReads7.0Score732Shelves
- 12 Chronicles of the Sea's Conquest: From Dragon King to Great Sage 覆海纪：从龙王到大圣 From a young flood dragon in the North Sea to the Dragon King of Blackwater River, from the Great Sage Who Quells the Seas to a homeless dragon. This is Jiao Fu’s life: battling heavenly soldiers, stealing Buddhist treasures, and wreaking havoc on the Journey to the West. A story about a goofy modern soul causing chaos across the Three Realms in Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, and The Legend of the White Snake... New book: Inuyasha: Tiger Roars Across the East. A story about Tiger 5.4kReads5.8Score360Shelves
- 13 Mad Great Sage: Transmigrating as Wukong, Exposing Bodhi's Secret from the Start 疯大圣：穿越悟空，开局点破菩提 No investiture of the gods, no primordial world. There’s only a monkey who cares about all three realms and shattered his soul to change the chaos of the Five Barbarians’ invasions and destroy Fusang, wiping it out completely! No System, and no forced demonization of the gods and Buddhas. An overworked office drone died suddenly on the job. When he opened his eyes, he was kneeling on a meditation cushion in the Three Stars Cave on Fangcun Mountain. The Patriarch Subhuti lectured from above whil 274Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Journey to the West: I'm a Monkey from Flower-Fruit Mountain 西游：我是花果山一只猴子 [No Golden Finger] [No System] [A blend of the original Journey to the West and the Primordial Journey to the West] [Not a power fantasy] Sun Lüzhen transmigrated into the body of a monkey. Just as he was preparing to live out a short life as an animal, he unexpectedly witnessed the birth of Sun Wukong. It turned out this was the world of Journey to the West, where immortals, Buddhas, gods, and demons all existed. So what should he do? Join the struggle between Buddhism and Daoism? Beat Buddhism 141Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Journey to the West: A Well-Connected Insider at Mount Ling, the Peacock Great King 西游：灵山关系户，孔雀大明王 [Journey to the West] [Not a Primordial Chaos-style story] Kong Xuan transmigrates into a bird’s egg. After hatching, he teaches his twin brother, the Great Peng, a lesson for trying to steal the Yin-Yang Two Qi Vase. Then, ravenous with hunger, he flies from the nest in search of something to eat. Kong Xuan sweeps across the land, devouring countless living beings, yet his hunger refuses to fade. Just then, a ball of golden light appears atop a distant snowy mountain, catching his attention. “L 3.9kReads8.6Score222Shelves
- 16 Transmigrating to Journey to the West: How Did I, Lu Bu, Become the Weakest? 西游穿越：我吕布怎么成最弱了 [Journey to the West Spinoff] [Fantasy] [Transmigration Fanfic] [Three Kingdoms Crossover] [Cultivation Comeback] [Gods and Demons Battle] [Strategies for Lü Bu and Advice-Listening Sun Wukong] "A real man lives between heaven and earth. How can he stay cooped up in a place like this for long?" After Cao Cao killed him, Lü Bu transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West. After spending far too long in Flower-Fruit Mountain, he had grown restless. He was a great man who stood tall betw 208Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Journey to the West, Skeleton Soldier of White Tiger Ridge, I Block the Road and Become a Saint 西游，白虎岭骷髅兵，我拦路成圣 [Not based on the original Journey to the West] What should I do after being reborn as a skeleton? Don't panic. First, let's see what the situation is. Journey to the West, White Tiger Ridge. So I'm the White Bone Spirit? Oh. Sorry, I got that wrong. I'm just a skeleton soldier. Yun Zhao nearly cried when he learned his situation. If I'm not running now, when am I? Do I really want to wait for the Monkey King's Golden Cudgel to smash me to dust? [Ding! Roadblock Simulator loading] Huh? What the 110.8kReads8.7Score12.5kShelves
- 18 Wukong Burns the Heavens: The Heavenly Dao Is Unjust? I Am Destiny! 悟空焚天：天道不公？吾即天命！ [Black Myth + Xianxia Fantasy + Over-the-Top Action + Hilarious Comedy + Journey to the West + Mysterious Reincarnation + System + Primordial World + Rules Horror + Spiritual Qi Revival + Urban Fantasy + Sci-Fi] It’s pure adrenaline from start to finish, with explosive thrills and laughs that’ll have you crying out loud. Not a moment of frustration in sight! The battle between gods and demons turns into a comedy, while the rules horror hides clues to the cycle of reincarnation. The Great Sage se 119Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 19 Journey to the West: From the Start as Tianpeng, I Stumble into the Jade Pool's Bedchamber 西游：开局天蓬，错进瑶池寝宫 Du Chen transmigrates into the world of Journey to the West and becomes Marshal Tianpeng. But he discovers that he has just attended the Peach Banquet and is in the middle of flirting with Fairy Chang'e. Familiar with the story of Journey to the West, Du Chen wants to change his fate. Just then, he awakens the Misdeed System. Misdeeds? Now that's something I'm good at! Why bother going to Guanghan Palace or 1.1kReads8.5Score126Shelves
- 20 This Is No Buddhist Revival! 这哪里是佛门大兴 Lu Ziye is reborn as the second son of the Lu family in the East Sea Commandery of the Aolai Kingdom, Dongsheng Divine Continent. Born alongside him is the monkey from Flower-Fruit Mountain. Bearing the Jade Butterfly of Great Tribulation, Lu Ziye joins the sect of the Sage Taiqing and becomes a third-generation disciple. The Buddhist sect is destined to flourish? Have you asked me, Lu Ziye, first? The Journey to the West Tribulation has been forced to include the Eighty-One Tribulations, so let 711Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 21 Journey to the West: I Took Nuwa as My Wife from the Start 西游：开局拐了女娲当媳妇 By a twist of fate, Lin Xuan transmigrates to the Tang Dynasty. With all kinds of modern technology at his disposal, Lin Xuan thrives in the Tang Dynasty. Li Er even makes him a prince of a different surname, and he enjoys a life of carefree luxury. Then Lin Xuan makes a shocking discovery: he hasn’t transmigrated to the historical Tang Dynasty, but to the Tang Dynasty from the Primordial World’s Journey to the West. Just before this, relying on his status as a prince, Lin Xuan had wiped out doz 12.3kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
- 22 Journey to the West: I Was About to Shed My Mortal Body and Become an Immortal When the Monkey Came Looking for Me 西游：刚准备尸解成仙，猴子来找 After transmigrating into the world of Journey to the West, Tao Qian spends sixty years searching for immortals without success. He obtains a method of corpse liberation and is just about to use it when a monkey suddenly comes running up from below the mountain, claiming to be from the Water Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain and asking to become his disciple. 74.4kReads7.5Score6.3kShelves
- 23 Journey to the West: Please, Come Out of Seclusion and Fetch the Scriptures 西游：求求你，出关取经吧 After transmigrating into Journey to the West and becoming Tang Sanzang, Tang San panics. Holy crap, the tribulations of the Journey to the West are about to begin, and he has no desire to be tied up like a dumpling! Luckily, his System awakens. Tang San immediately decides to cultivate in seclusion. Whoever wants to fetch the scriptures can go do it themselves. When the Buddhas of the Western Heaven hear the news, they are stunned. Guanyin: “Jin Chanzi, please go fetch the scriptures already! T 3.5kReads8.7Score231Shelves
- 24 Journey to the West: The Great Sage Took Advice, and the Three Realms Were Stunned 西游：大圣听劝后，三界都懵逼了 [Journey to the West + wild imagination + Sun Wukong + epic spectacles + invincible + feel-good power fantasy + unexpected twists] After waking up, Sun Hao transmigrates to the world of Journey to the West and becomes Sun Wukong. At this point, Heaven has summoned him for the first time and appointed him Bimawen. The Western Religion intends to use this opportunity to make him rebel against Heaven and advance its grand plan for the Journey to the West. He himself is the key figure in this journe 6.1kReads7.9Score663Shelves
- 25 Journey to the West: I Was Away for Three Years, and My Home Was Robbed? 西游：贫道云游三年，家被偷了？ After transmigrating into Journey to the West, Ye Yun inherited a Taoist temple. As long as he remained within the temple grounds, he was invincible! But Ye Yun had grown tired of staying in one place all year round. So he spent three years traveling, experiencing the customs and culture of the Journey to the West world. But when he returned from his travels, he discovered that someone had torn down his temple and built the Temple of Rebirth in its place for Xuanzang to lecture in?! And whe 7.3kReads7.4Score561Shelves
- 26 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 1.7kReads8.9Score119Shelves
- 27 Journey to the West: The Demon-Wife Collector 西游：娶精人 [Backup Pilgrim to the West / Pilgrim No. 66 / Wild, fun ideas / Hilarious comeback] Tang Jianguo accidentally transmigrates into Journey to the West and becomes Pilgrim No. 66, a backup pilgrim. Wukong, Bajie, and all the other fateful encounters have already been snatched up by the monks ahead of him. From the start, he's dealt an impossible hand, with only a Feeding System that spends merit points to exchange for supplies. A brutal competition against his fellow pilgrims lies ahead, and an ut 16.5kReads8.6Score2kShelves
- 28 Journey to the West: I’m Bored Anyway, So Why Not Pull Off a Robbery? 西游：反正很无聊，随便打个劫呗 Chu Yun transmigrated to the Primordial World and successfully activated the Robbery Makes You Stronger System. As a result, Chu Yun became a professional bandit chief. Traveling merchants? Rob them! The king's guards? Rob them! Local officials? Rob them! In less than twenty years, Chu Yun had reached the second heaven of the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm. Just as Chu Yun was planning to expand his robbery business, he spotted a monk riding a white horse. His eyes lit up at once. Chu Yu 38.6kReads7.5Score2.2kShelves
- 29 I Became the Strongest Villain by Laying Low in Journey to the West 我在西游苟成最强大反派 Gu Ming transmigrates to the world of Journey to the West and becomes a lowly little snake demon. Knowing how dangerous that world is, he has no interest in buddying up with the Great Sage or taking an official post in Heaven. He just wants to find a cave of his own and cause trouble for all the demonesses. When Gu Ming, who has begun cultivating the Eighty-Nine Mysteries, discovers that his enhancement panel can strengthen his body, he seems to glimpse a path to invincibility all his own. Af 30kReads8.2Score2.2kShelves
- 30 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 7.6kReads8.6Score801Shelves
- 31 EN Journey to the West: Master Wants to Tell Another Story 西游：师父又要讲故事了 [Type]: Journey to the West / historical Xuanzang / retracing the Journey to the West / Buddhist cultivation / not the Primordial World / only a great calamity setting / no conspiracy-driven plot. Guanyin Bodhisattva had been having a terrible headache lately. A great calamity was about to begin, and the Buddha had ordered him to find a Pilgrim and bring him to the Western Heaven to undertake the Journey to the West. Everything had originally been arranged. But this Pilgrim seemed a little stran 128.2kReads9.3Score13.3kShelves
- 32 Journey to the West? No! Hear My Decree, Monks: March West to Spirit Mountain 西游？不！传贫僧法旨，西征灵山 At Little Leiyin Temple, Tang Sanzang recites a rebellious poem. At Eagle Sorrow Stream, the White Dragon sends a false letter? At Lion Camel Ridge, the demons arrange themselves by rank, while Tang Sanzang speaks fervently of his lifelong ambition? What would happen at the end of Journey to the West if Tang Sanzang grew stronger every time he took on a new disciple? Sun Wukong: “I'll storm Leiyin Temple and destroy Mount Ling. If I leave and never return, then so be it!” Zhu Bajie: “Tathagata's 8.5kReads9.0Score837Shelves
- 33 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 12.2kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
- 34 After We Parted, I Wasted My Youth in the Drizzle 一别烟雨负韶华 One Parting in Misty Rain, a Lifetime of Lost Youth 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Journey to the West: Everyone Lands in the Kingdom of Women, the Streets Are Full of Beauties, but Zhu Bajie Just Wants to Cry 西游：全员掉进女儿国，满街美人猪八戒却只想哭 The Whole Journey to the West Cast Falls Into the Kingdom of Women, and the Streets Are Full of Beauties, but Zhu Bajie Can Only Cry 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Old Sword of Duling: The Chronicle of Emperor Xuan of Han 杜陵故剑：汉宣本纪 The Sword of Duling: A Chronicle of Emperor Xuan of Han 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Transmigrated as Fahai: I Know Everyone in This Story, So I'm Just Giving Up 穿越法海：全熟人剧本我直接摆烂 I Transmigrated into Fahai: With a Cast Full of Familiar Faces, I’m Just Going to Phone It In 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Transmigrated to the Viking Age: I Conquer the North Sea by Playing It Safe 穿越维京：我靠苟道称霸北海 Transmigrated to the Viking Age: I Rule the North Sea by Keeping My Head Down 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Starcore Prison: A Pact of Steel and Blood 星核囚笼：机械与血契 Starcore Prison: Machine and Blood Pact 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Don’t Call Bajie a Lecher, I Just Want a Home 别骂八戒好色，我只是想有个家 Don’t Call Bajie a Lecher, I Just Want a Home 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我 That winter night, we sat around the charcoal brazier, the coals crackling as I huddled in a corner and listened to the adults tell a story about the sacred cypress at the village entrance. They said... The person who told me that story has passed away, but the chilling feeling it gave me is still etched in my memory. Now, I’ve adapted the story into a novel. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Wild Ride From the Spider Cave to the Immortal Realm 从盘丝洞到仙界的狂飙 A little demon named Su Xiang’er burst out of the Cave of the Silken Webs. Born with the superpower to control objects, she turned Heaven upside down! The Jade Emperor was hopping mad, but there was nothing he could do about it. Unsatisfied with the immortal realm, this little terror ran off to the mortal world and started playing the markets, raking in a fortune. She not only took big names from the immortal realm, like Flower-Fruit Mountain, the Moon Palace, and the Dragon Palace, public, but 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I Scored 380 on the College Entrance Exam, Yet Ten Years Later I Outclassed the Top Students from Elite Universities 高考380分的我，十年后碾压985学霸 I Scored 380 on the College Entrance Exam, Yet Ten Years Later I Outclassed the Top Students from China's 985 Universities 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 An AI Torments a Thousand-Year-Old Vampire Until He Questions His Life 千年吸血鬼被AI虐到怀疑人生 A Thousand-Year-Old Vampire Gets Bullied by AI Until He Questions His Life 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Three Battles with the White Bone Demon? I, Old Zhu, Can’t Bear to Do It 三打白骨精？俺老猪舍不得 Three Fights Against the White Bone Demon? I, Old Zhu, Can’t Bear to Do It 73Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 My Years as a Prisoner of War in World War II 我在二战当俘虏的那些年 My Years as a Prisoner of War in World War II 299Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Lucky Star of Normandy: The Absurd World War II of a Frontline Soldier 诺曼底幸运星：先锋大兵的离谱二战 The Lucky Star of Normandy: A Vanguard Soldier's Absurd World War II 325Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 I Became the Indestructible Cockroach of the Three Kingdoms, and No One Can Kill Me 活成三国不死小强，谁都杀不掉我 I’ve Become the Undying Cockroach of the Three Kingdoms, and No One Can Kill Me 60Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 This Is Crazy! The French Prince Rebels Every Day, Yet No One Dares Kill Him 疯了！法国王爷天天造反，死活没人敢杀 He’s Gone Mad! The French Prince Rebels Every Day, Yet No One Dares Kill Him 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 I Transmigrated Into the German Army in World War II, Wanted to Surrender, but Kept Racking Up Military Merit 穿越成二战德军，我只想投降却狂拿战功 Transmigrated as a German soldier in World War II, I just want to surrender, but keep racking up military honors —Reads—Score—Shelves
