Six-Eared Taught Me Immortal Arts, and I Comprehended the Divine Elephant Suppresses the Prison Force

“From today on, I’ll call you my disciple, and you’ll call me senior. We’ll have the bond of master and disciple, but not the title, so we won’t incur any karma.”

“I’ll teach you the ultimate path of cultivation. With your talent for meditation, even Sun Wukong, the Tathagata, and the Jade Emperor will be nothing to you.”

“Thank you, Senior!”

“No need for formalities, my disciple!”

Shi Li was reborn into the world of Journey to the West at the pivotal moment of the true and false Monkey King calamity. He became the son of a bandit, and Sun Wukong somehow became the man who killed his father.

On the anniversary of his parents’ deaths, Shi Li went to their graves, intending to burn a stick of incense for them. But the supposedly dead Six-Eared Macaque suddenly sprang to life.

Shi Li had thought he was embarking on the path to immortality, one everyone yearned to follow.

But who could have known that reality would be so cruel and unforgiving? What kind of bloody road was this, the path that gave rise to legends and symbols?

Whether Heaven and Earth are unkind or the heart of Heaven is compassionate,

birth, death, and restoration are the fundamental laws of all things in the universe. This is the Dao.

The Way of Heaven, however, is fair to all things, all living beings, and even gods, immortals, Buddhas, demons, and cultivators.

Thus, all beings in Heaven and Earth evolve. They struggle to survive and form all kinds of karmic ties.

As life proliferates, this struggle for survival grows ever fiercer. When a certain factor sets off the contradictions, calamity erupts.

From the Journey to the West calamity onward came the First Calamity of Chaos, the Dragon-Han Calamity, the War between the Lich Clans, the Investiture of the Gods War...

Was all of this a cycle of reincarnation, or the end of everything?