Lin Yuan transmigrates into Journey to the West, becoming a newly born spirit monkey on Mount Fangcun. The bloodline of the Chaos Primordial Demon Ape awakens within him, and he binds himself to the Lie Flat System.
All he has to do is daydream, sleep, or bask in the sun to gain sudden enlightenment in supreme supernatural arts and watch his cultivation soar.
While his fellow disciples toil from dawn to dusk to master the Dao, and Sun Wukong frets and scratches his ears in his desperate quest for immortality, Lin Yuan snores away on the meditation mat where Patriarch Bodhi lectures.
The calamity of Journey to the West begins, and gods and Buddhas across the heavens scheme over karma.
Only when the Buddhas of Spirit Mountain come knocking does the bleary-eyed Lin Yuan casually swing his staff and shake the nine heavens apart. The Tathagata is stunned on the spot: "So which of us is the Lingming Stone Monkey?!"