Journey to the West: The Great Sage and I Defy the Celestial Chessboard Together

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Journey to the West: The Great Sage and I, Defying the Celestial Chessboard Together

Tags

Transmigrated to Journey to the West, twin stone monkeys, defying fate, suspenseful scheming, no System, brothers ruling the world, overturning the pilgrimage, secrets of the myriad heavens

Synopsis

A modern youth accidentally transmigrates into a remnant of the primordial stone left behind from the creation of the heavens. He awakens a thousand years before Sun Wukong and becomes an unknown stone monkey on Flower-Fruit Mountain. No heaven-defying System, no chance encounter bestowed from above: all he has are modern memories that see through the illusions of the Three Realms, and a strange essence born in harmony with chaos. He witnesses the Lingming Stone Monkey emerge from its stone and forms an unbreakable sworn brotherhood with him. Everyone knows that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven fought heaven and earth and was fiercely rebellious, but no one knows that a hidden elder brother stood behind him. The two venture into the Dragon Palace, wreak havoc in the underworld, and battle across the myriad heavens, unraveling the grand scheme of the Journey to the West laid by gods and Buddhas at every turn. But as their cultivation deepens, shocking secrets emerge layer by layer: there is more than one stone left from the creation of the heavens; the true scriptures sought on the pilgrimage are a seal; the reincarnation of the Three Realms is all part of the chess game of the sages; and the protagonist's transmigration was never an accident, but the one flaw in the failing Heavenly Dao. When every scheme is finally laid bare, the brothers stride forth with their staffs and shatter the illusions, vowing to overturn the gods and Buddhas filling the heavens and, as two stone monkeys, reshape the order of the Three Realms!

Chapter One: A Thousand-Year-Old Remnant, A Flaw in the Heavenly Dao

The vast Eastern Sea stretched beneath endless waves of emerald blue, rolling since time immemorial.

The sea breeze carried the primordial desolation left over from the dawn of the world. Year after year, it swept across Flower-Fruit Mountain, a solitary immortal mountain amid the vast sea.