Journey to the West: Apprenticed to Taiyi Savior of Suffering

"You have already chosen the path to your own destruction."

Cao Kong gazed at his younger brother and, after a long silence, finally spoke.

"Brother, why do you say such things? I have always obeyed your words, never harmed anyone, never bullied the weak. My only wish is to be a mountain king here in these hills. Why, why must it be so?"

A leopard spirit, upon hearing this, looked as though struck by lightning and hastened to defend himself.

Cao Kong regarded his brother in silence. Yes, why indeed?

He silently counted the three deadly sins that spelled his brother’s doom.

First, his leopard-spirit brother had named this mountain Hidden Mist Mountain.

Second, today his brother had styled himself the King of the Southern Mountain.

Third, this was the world of Journey to the West!

Given these three points, his brother had already set foot on the road to ruin.

Cao Kong found the situation absurd. Only after decades of cultivation had he realized this was the world of Journey to the West.

No wonder—no wonder, after his brother transformed, he bore a remarkable resemblance to that wildly popular internet-famous demon from his previous life.

He had harbored suspicions before, but being secluded in the deep mountains and never having heard of any monk with a hairy face and thunderous mouth, he had dismissed it as his own overthinking.

Looking at the anxious leopard spirit before him, Cao Kong wanted to explain everything—to tell him that in the future, a monk with a hairy face and