For a thousand years after the Journey to the West, the Three Realms have repeated the same lies: Mount Lingtai Fangcun is merely a secluded immortal sect, Patriarch Bodhi is just an idle wandering immortal, and Wukong's havoc in Heaven and the pilgrimage to the West are all predestined steps on the path to salvation.
After transmigrating into the Primordial World, Su Chen uncovers the ultimate secret: Mount Fangcun is the Three Realms' greatest sealed prison, and Bodhi is the progenitor of all laws, whose lineage was erased through the combined efforts of the heavens.
He masters the foundations of the Three Teachings and surpasses the Three Pure Ones and the Tathagata, yet Heaven seals his spiritual lineage, locks away his cultivation, and forbids him from revealing his true power. He is never allowed to leave Three Stars Cave.
The so-called seclusion is not a choice: he dares not leave, cannot leave, and if he does, calamity will consume the heavens.
Su Chen transmigrates and is reborn just as the Stone Monkey sets out across the sea in search of the Way. He joins Mount Fangcun and becomes Sun Wukong's only fellow disciple of the same generation.
Bearing the [Heavenly Secrets Lock], he can glimpse the revenge plot Patriarch Bodhi has buried for billions of years. He can see through the charade of the Journey to the West, in which every step is a conspiracy between Buddhism and Daoism to destroy Mount Fangcun's lineage and cripple an unparalleled demon immortal.
Bodhi's teachings were never a matter of chance. They were a way to select pawns capable of breaking the game. Wukong's defiance is indulged, his madness stoked, his suppression arranged, and his Buddhahood engineered as a means to tame him. From beginning to end, it is a targeted purge of Mount Fangcun's disciples by the heavens.
To protect his mysterious master, save the naive Wukong, and tear down the lies of the Three Realms, Su Chen defies Heaven at every turn.
He sets Wukong's heart back on the right path and removes the demons planted by the script. He secretly learns the forbidden laws at the source, completes Bodhi's incomplete Great Dao, steals the hidden moves of the heavens, and shatters a thousand years of schemes by Heaven and the Buddhist sects.
Only when the Buddhas and immortals are waiting for Mount Fangcun's disciples to destroy their own paths and leave their lineage extinct do they realize, to their horror:
This generation's two disciples of Mount Fangcun have produced a monkey who defies the demonic path and a man who breaks the Heavenly Dao.
The master and his disciples were prisoners, yet the disciples insist on becoming gods.