At 10:00 PM on Sunday night, the game progress of the vast majority of streamers had reached Episode Seven: The Flat Peach Banquet.

The chain boss relay battle in this level was simply impossible to pass for players with slightly weaker skills.

Even the well-known technical game streamers on major platforms needed at least two to three hours to continuously fight the Nine Luminaries, the Four Heavenly Kings, and Muzha.

By the time Meng Tu finished fighting the first three bosses, her hands were almost numb.

She rested for a moment and said, “The people sent by the Heaven Realm were all beaten back by Monkey Brother, so they went to invite outside help again. Erlang Shen Yang Jian should be the last one in this boss fight, right?”

“He looks a bit awesome. After all, he’s the biological nephew of the Jade Emperor.”

“Let me drink some water to calm my nerves first, and then I’ll duel him!”

While drinking water, she continued to watch the animation.

In the animation, as soon as Erlang Shen Yang Jian made his appearance, the viewers in the barrage chat flooded the screen:

[This Erlang Shen is quite handsome ah!]
[The Heavenly Kings just now were uglier than the last, but Erlang Shen’s art style is out of the ordinary.]
[The best-looking boss so far.]

Meng Tu looked closely. The modeling of Erlang Shen Yang Jian was indeed very handsome.

The young man’s facial features were handsome and resolute, his eyes clear and spirited. There was a special red pattern mark on his forehead. He wore a golden hair crown, and his long ponytail naturally draped down to his waist. Holding the sharp Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword, his posture was tall and straight, radiating a heroic bearing.

Unlike a villain, he instead had a face full of righteousness.

Meng Tu quickly took a screenshot and said: “This handsome guy, one look and you know he won’t be easy to deal with.”

Erlang Shen’s modeling was clearly done with great care; even the strands of his hair were distinct, and the patterns on his clothes were exquisite and beautiful. He definitely couldn’t be compared to ordinary small mobs.

Anyone who played a lot of games knew that the more exquisitely modeled and better-looking a boss was, the harder they were to fight!

In the animation plot, Erlang Shen arrived at Mount Huaguo and called out a challenge to Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong jumped onto a tree and asked with a grin: “Which little general are you, daring to come here and challenge me, Old Sun?”

Erlang Shen shouted coldly: “I am the Jade Emperor’s biological nephew, the Illustrious Sage True Lord Erlang, Yang Jian. Today, I am here on orders to capture you, this Bima Wen who rebelled against the Heavenly Palace!”

Sun Wukong’s eyes rolled around, and he laughed loudly: “Back in the day, the Jade Emperor’s younger sister longed for the mortal realm, descended to the lower world, married a mortal surnamed Yang, and gave birth to a son. Legend has it that because his sister violated the heavenly laws, the Jade Emperor imprisoned her beneath Mount Peach. That son took a giant axe and split open Mount Peach to save his mother… Is the person they speak of you?”

Yang Jian raised his eyebrows: “What if it is?”

Sun Wukong waved his hand: “I, Old Sun, do not fight with juniors. Go back quickly and call your elders over!”

Yang Jian said angrily: “You mischievous monkey, how dare you be so insolent! Take my blade!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the golden light of the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword in his hand descended from the sky, fiercely chopping down!

Meng Tu was so absorbed in watching the plot that she didn’t have time to react, and was instantly chopped to death by a single strike.

She hurriedly got up and said: “Holy crap! This battle started so unexpectedly… I was just pondering what the story of Yang Jian splitting the mountain to save his mother was about?”

[According to Monkey Brother, his mother violated heavenly laws and was imprisoned by the Jade Emperor?]
[Yang Jian split the mountain open to save his mother, is that what it means?]
[So to speak, Yang Jian and the Jade Emperor still have some bad blood!]
[No wonder he doesn’t live in the Heaven Realm.]
[Looks like Yang Jian and this uncle Jade Emperor aren’t of one mind either.]
[Yang Jian, stop fighting the Great Sage, might as well join forces with the Great Sage and rebel against the Heaven Realm together!]
[Hahaha I feel the same way.]

Although Yang Jian’s story was only briefly mentioned from Sun Wukong’s mouth, it aroused the curiosity of many players. Erlang Shen’s modeling was very handsome, and he had a complex background story. It seemed he wasn’t a simple villain either—splitting a mountain to save his mother was very bold and courageous ah!

The players actually had quite a favorable impression of this boss.

Meng Tu roused her spirits, stood up, and started dueling Yang Jian again.

This Yang Jian’s attack power was super terrifying. The Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword possessed immense might; the blade rapidly swept out with golden light, unleashing large-scale fan-shaped attacks that were very hard to dodge.

Meng Tu burst forth with hand speed, unleashing a flurry of operations, rolling and crawling to dodge skills. She dodged in an extremely sorry state, and in less than half a minute, she died again.

She got up and said: “I’ll do it again!”

The second time, she still died in less than half a minute.

The barrage chat spammed the screen.

[Streamer is so noob oh!]
[The Great Sage’s reputation has been ruined by you, hahaha.]
[Those laughing at the streamer, you go play it yourselves, you probably wouldn’t last 10 seconds.]
[Say no more, we only play Simple Mode~]

Meng Tu stopped, studied the release patterns of Yang Jian’s skills for a moment, and restarted the challenge.

This time, she finally lasted over 1 minute.

Right at this moment, another transition animation played in the game.

Yang Jian was seen suddenly growing dozens of times larger, with a blue face, protruding fangs, and a head of red hair. His figure was like a towering, majestic mountain. He raised the great blade in his hand and chopped down forcefully at Sun Wukong below his feet!

Having a flash of inspiration, Sun Wukong also immediately grew dozens of times larger. The Golden Cudgel in his hands was like a giant pillar supporting the sky, erected in front of him, forcibly blocking Yang Jian’s attack.

The deafening clank of the weapons clashing shook Mount Huaguo so violently it swayed fiercely.

Sun Wukong looked back and saw that the little monkeys on the mountain were fleeing everywhere in panic. Some heavenly soldiers and generals had begun to deal with the monkey troupe. Furious, Sun Wukong immediately turned back to save the monkeys.

He transformed into a sparrow and flew onto a branch, wanting to deceive Yang Jian.

Seeing him suddenly disappear, Yang Jian hurriedly reverted to his original form and pursued him.

The red mark on the youth’s forehead opened, turning into the shape of an eye—this was actually Yang Jian’s “third eye”.

[Holy crap, a third eye, cool!]
[I thought that pattern was just a decoration, turned out it was his hidden eye?]
[The legendary opening of the Heavenly Eye?]
[Erlang Shen is quite awesome, why go against my Monkey Brother?]

Having opened his Heavenly Eye, Yang Jian quickly discovered Sun Wukong’s location. With a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, he transformed into an eagle to catch that sparrow.

System: Quest Updated—[Dodge Erlang Shen Yang Jian’s pursuit]
System: Please make good use of the [72 Transformations] skill.

The background music suddenly became tense.

And the player’s control panel had actually turned into a “flying mini-game”?

Meng Tu immediately snapped back to her senses, controlling Sun Wukong in his sparrow form to fly forward desperately, while Yang Jian transformed into an eagle pursued from behind.

Halfway through the flight, due to not mastering the balance well, she fell directly down. Challenge failed.

The second time, because she didn’t fly fast enough, she was caught by Yang Jian. Challenge failed!

Meng Tu was speechless: “I thought it was a boss fight, but it turned into a ‘chase game’?”

[He flees, he pursues, he cannot escape even if he had wings.]
[Hahaha, this game is gradually becoming hilarious.]
[The chain boss fight was quite tiring, having fought three waves of bosses, let’s have some entertainment.]
[Run faster, Yang Jian is catching up to you again!]

Meng Tu rubbed her hands, holding the phone with both hands to master the balance, avoiding mid-air obstacles, and occasionally accelerating a wave. After her operations became proficient, her Sun Wukong (sparrow version) also flew faster and faster.

After flying continuously for 3 minutes without being caught by Yang Jian’s eagle, the challenge succeeded!

Sun Wukong flew to the riverside. The “72 Transformations” skill was flashing. Meng Tu pressed the skill, and the next moment, Sun Wukong transformed into a fish and plunged headfirst into the water.

Yang Jian arrived at the riverside, and immediately following, he transformed with a shake, becoming a fish-eating bird!

Sun Wukong swam rapidly in the water, while Yang Jian pursued and pecked at him on the water’s surface.

Meng Tu swam while shouting: “The pressure is so high, stop chasing!” “Could you stop chasing, please!”

The players were dying of laughter.

This “chase game” level was actually quite difficult. Many obstacles were set up along the way. The player had to run while dodging obstacles, making it very easy to be caught.

But in the eyes of the viewers in the stream, it had a very comedic effect.

10 minutes later, the fish transformation level was finally passed.

Sun Wukong then transformed into a small snake, nimbly burrowing into the nearby bushes. Yang Jian closely followed by transforming into a grey crane, searching for that small snake in the bushes…

The sky, the ocean, the bushes—three consecutive chase-mode levels, each with different designs.

Transforming into a sparrow mainly involved mastering balance and dodging flying obstacles; transforming into a fish required floating up and down to swim and dodging other large fish in the sea; after transforming into a snake, one had to move in an S-shape to navigate corners, which demanded high operational skill.

When she finally cleared the levels, Meng Tu only felt that it was even more tiring than running a ten-thousand-meter marathon!

Hunted by Yang Jian all the way down the mountain, Sun Wukong had a flash of inspiration and transformed into a temple. Unfortunately, his tail was hard to hide, so a straight flagpole stood erected behind the temple.

[Hahaha, the Great Sage is so funny, transformed into a house.]
[A house suddenly appearing in the desolate wilderness, it’s so obvious ah.]
[And it’s a house with a tail standing up…]
[Yang Jian can definitely see through it!]
[He’s cheating by opening his Heavenly Eye; the Great Sage’s 72 Transformations seems useless in front of him.]

Yang Jian indeed opened his Heavenly Eye and saw through Sun Wukong’s transformation. He walked around to the back of the house and directly hit his tail. Feeling the pain, Sun Wukong immediately reverted to his original form and, with a Somersault Cloud, flipped all the way to Yang Jian’s hometown.

This time was even better; he simply transformed into Yang Jian’s appearance.

The subordinates didn’t recognize him and bowed one after another to this “fake Yang Jian.” Sun Wukong was extremely smug. Sitting in the seat Yang Jian usually sat in, he even ordered the subordinates to bring him delicious food.

The Yang Jian he transformed into could indeed pass off as genuine.

While the subordinates were serving him, a moment later, another Yang Jian walked in.

Everyone was collectively dumbfounded—how come there are two Yang Jians?

Sun Wukong immediately stood up, pointed at the other party, and shouted loudly: “Good on you, you mischievous monkey, daring to transform into my appearance! Men, take him down for me quickly!”

[Hahahaha, the Great Sage is a thief crying ‘stop thief’.]
[The Great Sage is actually very smart!]
[Dying of laughter, transformed into Yang Jian himself, and scolding the real Yang Jian as a mischievous monkey.]
[Wukong, stop being naughty.]

Yang Jian was also left entirely at a loss by Sun Wukong’s operation.

It’s clearly you who transformed into me, okay? Yet you’re having people take me down! Truly unreasonable.

Unfortunately, no matter how Sun Wukong transformed, his tail was very hard to hide. Yang Jian decisively circled behind him and hit his tail. Knocked back into his original form, Sun Wukong simply stopped pretending. He jumped out of the house and began fighting Yang Jian.

The two fought to a standstill.

The group from the Heavenly Court gradually couldn’t sit still anymore. The Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, Guanyin, and others were watching the battle from the heavens. Seeing that Yang Jian couldn’t capture Sun Wukong for the time being, Taishang Laojun took out his own magical artifact—the Diamond Snare—and threw it downwards.

[Holy crap, a sneak attack!]
[This bunch from the Heaven Realm is truly shameless ah.]
[Couldn’t win the relay battle, couldn’t catch him after inviting outside help, and still sneak-attacked my Monkey Brother.]
[Shameless!]

The players were filled with righteous indignation, wishing they could transmigrate into the game to help Sun Wukong.

Monkey Brother single-handedly defeated Nezha, the Nine Luminaries, the Four Heavenly Kings, and Muzha. He could even fight evenly matched back and forth with Yang Jian, this Heaven Realm God of War.

As a result, the Heaven Realm launched a sneak attack at a crucial moment?

Struck on the back of his head, Sun Wukong was dazed for a moment. The Heaven Realm immediately seized the opportunity to capture him using the Demon-Binding Rope. The barrage chat had already started spamming curses, and Meng Tu couldn’t help but complain: “This bunch from the Heaven Realm truly doesn’t speak of martial ethics! Couldn’t handle him in a relay battle, so they resort to sneak attacks, this is too much ah!”

Sun Wukong was tied up and brought back to the Heaven Realm, and the Jade Emperor had him escorted to the Demon-Slaying Platform.

However, despite the people of the Heaven Realm trying every possible method—chopping with swords, striking with axes, striking with lightning, and burning with fire—they just couldn’t kill this demon monkey. Sun Wukong was there laughing heartily, saying his body felt itchy and asking the heavenly soldiers and generals to scratch him some more.

The Jade Emperor had a headache: “How should this demon monkey be dealt with?”

Taishang Laojun advised: “This demon monkey ate the Flat Peaches and stealthily ate countless of my immortal elixirs, forging an indestructible diamond body. Only the True Fire of Samadhi in my Eight Trigrams Furnace can turn him into ashes.”

Thus, everyone escorted Sun Wukong to the Tushita Palace and threw him into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Forty-nine days later…

Taishang Laojun thought the monkey had already been burned to ashes. Upon opening the furnace to look—

As a result, a completely charred-black monkey suddenly jumped out and kicked over his Eight Trigrams Furnace! Because he was refined in the furnace for too long, Sun Wukong’s eyes had been burned into a pair of golden fiery eyes.

Looking sparkling and shining, he even deliberately blinked at Taishang Laojun.

System: Obtained Skill: [Fiery Golden Eyes]
Description: Using the skill can see through all disguises and inspect enemy attributes.

[Monkey Brother 6 ah!]
[Burned for so long without being burned to death, and actually gained another skill.]
[The Heaven Realm is even more out of options now, right?]

Surviving a great disaster, Sun Wukong’s attributes increased by another large chunk, and he also obtained the “Fiery Golden Eyes” skill.

Seeing this, the players were all very excited.

My Monkey Brother is invincible in the world, what else can you guys do?

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After coming out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Sun Wukong lifted the Golden Cudgel in his hand. This time, he wasn’t polite with the Heaven Realm at all. He plucked a handful of monkey hairs, blew gently, and conjured hundreds and thousands of Sun Wukongs.

Countless Sun Wukongs slaughtered their way all the way back to the Heaven Realm’s Lingxiao Treasure Hall.

Unexpectedly, no one could stop him!

Sun Wukong slaughtered his way into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, pointed at the Jade Emperor, and laughed loudly: “Old Jade Emperor, you’ve sat on that Lingxiao Treasure Hall for long enough. Come down quickly and let me, Old Sun, sit for a while!”

The Jade Emperor paled in shock.

Right at this moment, a voice suddenly came from beyond the heavens: “The Jade Emperor cultivated since childhood, experiencing one thousand seven hundred and fifty tribulations, spending tens of millions of years, before he could become the Lord of this Heaven Realm. How dare you, a monkey who just took form, speak such arrogant words?”

That voice was like a great bell, every word and sentence echoing.

Sun Wukong looked back, and the one who came was none other than Tathagata Buddha.

The Buddha’s entire body was illuminated with golden light, sitting cross-legged on a lotus throne. Compared to the panic of the people in the Heaven Realm, Tathagata Buddha appeared calm and composed, even bearing a compassionate smile when speaking.

Sun Wukong said: “They all say ‘Emperors take turns to rule, next year it comes to my house’. As long as the Jade Emperor moves out and yields the Heavenly Palace to me, Old Sun will no longer pursue the matter with him. If he refuses, I, Old Sun, will definitely turn this Heavenly Court completely upside down, leaving it no peace!”

Tathagata smiled: “What abilities do you have to dare become the Lord of this Heavenly Palace?”

Sun Wukong said smugly: “I, Old Sun, have plenty of abilities! Seventy-Two Transformations, immortality, an indestructible diamond body, and one Somersault Cloud can cross one hundred and eight thousand miles.”

Tathagata said: “How about I make a bet with you. If you can fly out of my right palm with one Somersault Cloud, I will have the Jade Emperor yield the Heavenly Palace to you.”

Sun Wukong’s eyes rolled around, and he smiled: “Can you make that decision?”

Tathagata said: “Of course I can.”

The people in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall looked at each other in dismay. Hearing this, the Jade Emperor also changed his expression, but he did not object. A burst of joy rose in Sun Wukong’s heart, and he immediately leaped up, activating the Somersault Cloud to fly towards the distance!

System: Quest Updated—[Use movement skill to fly]

Meng Tu smiled: “Tathagata made a bet with our Monkey Brother. As long as he flies out of his palm, he’ll let our Monkey Brother be the Lord of the Heavenly Palace! Isn’t this just giving it away for free?”

Meng Tu paused for a moment: “However, the name of this game is Journey to the West… it’s kinda weird, it seems to have no relation to the current plot?”

At this time, many viewers and players believed that Sun Wukong would become the Lord of the Heavenly Palace.

After all, in the previous seven levels, Sun Wukong had always been very awesome—turning the Dragon Palace upside down, churning up the Underworld, beating the Heaven Realm into repeated retreats. This looked exactly like the character setting of a satisfying novel protagonist, right?

Next, after becoming the Lord of the Heavenly Palace, Monkey Brother would be invincible across the Three Realms.

Meng Tu activated the Somersault Cloud movement skill according to the system prompts and strove to fly forward.

It was another flying level. As long as one could smoothly dodge the obstacles in the air and make good use of the acceleration skill, they could quickly reach the finish line.

Meng Tu said: “There are five mountains ahead, and a halo at the foot of the mountains. That should be the finish line for the quest.”

She controlled Sun Wukong to jump into that halo, and sure enough, triggered the next plot segment.

In the animation, after seeing the five mountains at the edge of the sky, Sun Wukong said: “This must be the end of the Heaven Realm! Wait while I, Old Sun, leave a mark.”

He plucked a monkey hair, transformed it into a brush, and wrote on one of the pillars: “Great Sage Equal to Heaven, was here!” Then, he conveniently urinated to leave a scent mark.

[Hahaha this monkey.]
[Urinating anywhere, fined 50~]
[Why do I have a bad premonition? Five pillars… oh my…]
[Did Monkey Brother win the bet?]

After Sun Wukong returned, he told Tathagata to yield the Heavenly Palace to him.

Tathagata said: “You never left the palm of my hand.”

Sun Wukong didn’t believe it: “I clearly flew to the edge of the sky, saw five giant stone pillars, and even left a mark. Do you dare to go take a look with me?”

Tathagata smiled: “Just go to my palm, lower your head and see for yourself.”

Sun Wukong jumped onto his palm and lowered his head to look.

The animation camera rapidly panned and gave a close-up—on one of Tathagata Buddha’s fingers, the exact sentence Sun Wukong had carved on the mountain pillar at the edge of the sky was written.

“Great Sage Equal to Heaven, was here”.

Sun Wukong said in shock: “Do you have the magic of foresight to know I was going to write this line of text? I don’t believe it, wait while I go look again!”

He was just about to fly away. Right at this moment, Tathagata Buddha’s palm suddenly flipped over.

Countless falling rocks descended from the sky!

Accompanied by a scream, Sun Wukong was pinned beneath a giant mountain.

[???]
[What’s the situation?!]
[My Monkey Brother didn’t get to be the big leader of the Heaven Realm, but was pinned down instead?]
[This Tathagata definitely used magic, how did he know Monkey Brother was going to write those words?]
[There’s definitely a trick! This bunch from the Heaven Realm have too many schemes.]
[What, what? My Monkey Brother lost the bet?]

Meng Tu was also entirely sluggish. She was dazed for a moment before saying: “My Monkey Brother was pinned beneath the Five Elements Mountain? Ah? Ah? How could this be the outcome?”

Meng Tu: “What about the follow-up? Chapter One, it can’t just end like this, right?”

Meng Tu: “I just said I would go to sleep after finishing Chapter One. How do you expect me to sleep with this?”

Meng Tu: “How can I possibly sleep!!”

Just as she said this, she saw the game start playing the “ending theme”.

【Chapter One · End】
【To know what happens next, please listen to the next installment】

The viewers: “…”

Planner, get the hell out here, I’ll knife you right now!

Countless viewers watched the ending theme in the stream with extremely speechless moods.

Not gonna lie, Yangfan Studio had actually put in quite a bit of effort, specially writing an original song for this game called “The Journey for Scriptures”. They had hired professional studios for both the lyrics and music composition.

While the ending theme played, a large amount of subtitles also appeared.

Game Production: Yangfan Studio
Lead Planner: Little Sailboat
In addition, there were detailed lists of the programming, level design, art, and other R&D teams.
Special Thanks: Animation Production [Colorful Animation]
Special Thanks: Voice Acting [Auditory Sound Studio]

Voice Cast List
Sun Wukong —— Fang Hezhi
Jade Emperor —— Zou Peng
…

The densely packed list of voice actors spanned several pages, showing that the production of this game was indeed very diligent. Finally, came one last sentence: 【Thank you to all players for your support of “Journey to the West” ^^】

The players and streamers were collectively dumbfounded.

Wait no, this is the ending?!

Those who cliffhanger the plot shall die a horrible death!

Meng Tu broke down on the spot: “My Monkey Brother was pinned beneath a mountain, I refuse to accept this! Dog planner, the plot of the first chapter is actually stuck here? Doesn’t your heart hurt? Damn, what am I supposed to sleep for tonight! How can I still sleep?”

At the same time, Brother Liu in the next-door stream was also cursing: “Fuck! Little Sailboat simply has no heart, how could he stick the plot at this point? What about later? My Monkey Brother just got pinned like this?”

Streamer Xingyue: “My Great Sage was fooled, right now I just want to turn the Three Realms upside down!”

Streamer White Bear: “I’m just speechless, stuck here… neither up nor down, scratching my heart and clawing my liver. Damn it, even waiting for a suspended TV drama wasn’t this painful ah!”

In the stream rooms, countless streamers and viewers were cursing and swearing.

At this time, the children who had cleared the levels using “Simple Mode” or “Normal Mode” had also reached Episode Seven on Sunday night, concluding the game’s first chapter.

7-year-old Tang Tian cried until she was out of breath, her eyes entirely red: “Dad, the Great Sage was pinned beneath a mountain. Who will save him, woo woo woo, Tathagata Buddha is a liar!”

The little boy next door was also angry: “How could the Great Sage Equal to Heaven not be able to fly out of the palm of his hand, I don’t believe it! The Great Sage was definitely fooled, the Heaven Realm are all bad guys!”

In the children’s Moments, they all started scolding the Heaven Realm.

In the adult players’ Moments, they were uniformly cursing the planner.

“Dog planner is not human!”

“Rarely get to relax and play a game on the weekend, and as a result, after getting addicted, you give me this ending?”

“I originally thought about going to sleep after finishing the first chapter, as a result… I can’t sleep even more after finishing it ah!”

“Sleep my ass! What happened to my Great Sage later?”

“Little Sailboat, release the next chapter for me immediately, right now!”

“I often encounter suspended updates when following TV dramas. Playing games, this is my first time encountering suspended updates. I yield…”

“Playing a game and still have to follow an animation series? Worthy of Yangfan Studio, always walking at the forefront of the industry!”
…

Sunday night at 22:00, the peak period for concurrent players online.

The experts playing Challenge Mode had mostly finished the seventh level over the two days, and the main army of players playing Normal Mode had also finished this level’s plot.

From a gaming perspective, the gameplay of the first seven levels was indeed rich and interesting.

Climbing mountains to find the Water Curtain Cave; navigating mazes and unlocking contraptions; dueling the Bull Demon King; treasure hunting in the Dragon Palace; fighting the Ghost Realm bosses to alter the Book of Life and Death; eating peaches in the Flat Peach Orchard; chain fighting bosses in a relay battle; and the chase and escape with Yang Jian.

The gameplay of every level was non-repetitive, and even the design of every single boss was non-repetitive.

The planning team had indeed put in the effort.

However, from a plot perspective—getting stuck here was simply inhuman ah!

Under Yangfan Studio’s official Weibo, countless players ran over to complain.

“Dog planner, return my Great Sage!”

“Little Sailboat, quickly hand over the subsequent plot… don’t force me to beg you~”

“I have a friend who is about to pass away from cancer, he just wants to know Sun Wukong’s ending.”

“Where is Yangfan Studio’s address? I want to mail you a package of razor blades!”

Under the denunciation of a massive number of players…

The topic #DogPlannerReturnMyGreatSage# was actually pushed onto the hot searches.

Xie Yunfan logged onto Weibo and took a glance. The players’ address for him had changed from the affectionate “Little Sailboat” to “Dog Planner,” and the comment section was filled with bloody knife emojis everywhere.

They even sent #DogPlannerReturnMyGreatSage# onto the hot searches.

Seeing countless players crying foul for the Great Sage, Xie Yunfan was also very deeply moved.

The Great Sage’s charm truly transcended eras and transcended worlds ah!

No matter where, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, was absolutely a unique figure.

He remembered the first time he watched Journey to the West as a child. He was also very angry when he saw this plotline, thinking the Great Sage shouldn’t have been pinned under the mountain by Tathagata, and was so angry he didn’t sleep well for a whole night.

Later, after watching the entire Journey to the West, he finally understood that this was just a setup created by Tathagata Buddha—everyone was in the setup, solely to assist the reincarnated Golden Cicada, Tang Sanzang, in obtaining the “True Scriptures” from the Western Heaven.

Of course, with the current plot, everyone was still unable to understand the core of the Journey to the West story.

But what was certain was that this game was already half successful!

The free-trial first chapter not only retained the players but also mobilized the players’ intense emotions—their love for the Great Sage, their disgust for the Heaven Realm, and their earnest anticipation for the subsequent plot.

Serializing an animation within a game? And fucking suspending the updates on me?

Truly had never been seen before!

Yangfan Studio’s “showy operations” made players love and hate them.

Loving their rich and interesting gameplay designs and wonderful animation plot; hating them for why they couldn’t just release it all at once ah? This scratching of the heart and clawing of the liver, how much longer did they have to wait?

Just two short days after the game parachuted, the discussion level was actually this high.

Countless organic promoters easily sent the Great Sage onto the hot searches at the drop of a hat…

It seemed that Journey to the West was going to become a blockbuster hit again!

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Author’s Note:
Note 1: The animated plot dialogues are from the original novel Journey to the West, with colloquial modifications (the original text leans towards classical Chinese, which the alternate world players wouldn’t understand~).
Note 2: Yang Jian splitting a mountain to save his mother does exist; he split Mount Peach. For specific myths and legends, those interested can Baidu it, mwah!