Black Myth: Journey to the West, Starting in the Tribulation Thunderclouds

[The protagonist has three or four wives; this is a harem novel. His defining trait: an obsession with Daoist arts and immortal magic.] Paper figures gain sentience, and a cat demon possesses a body. A clash of red and white brings calamity; a golden-bodied ox-headed demon. Li Tianqing, who transmigrated into this dark, mythical world of cultivation inspired by Journey to the West, is facing the perilous eighty-one tribulations. Fortunately, beneath the thunderclouds of his tribulation, he awakens a primordial spiritual treasure: a scroll of destiny containing countless Daoist arts and immortal spells. From then on, he subdues cat demons, wields fierce zombies, burns ox-headed demons, earns incense merit, and advances his Daoist arts and immortal spells: From [Fireball] to [Samadhi True Fire] From [Earth Escape] to [Land-Covering in a Single Step] From [Thunderbolt] to [Command of the Five Thunders] He embarks on the path of destiny, overturns the Three Seas and Four Continents, and eventually confronts the immortals of the Celestial Court: “There are no immortals in this Celestial Court. They’re nothing but a bunch of demons and monsters afraid of me...”