About this story
Five hundred years under a mountain end when a monk bound west for scriptures takes you as his first disciple. The road gives you Iron Fan's fan, forty-nine waves that quench Flaming Mountain, and a canon of five thousand and forty-eight volumes that opens blank. One hundred chapters carry a rebel from a waterfall to the Victorious Fighting Buddha's name.
How it opens
On Flower Fruit Mountain, a stone nourished by sky and earth split open beneath a clear dawn.
You emerged with senses awake, and light from your eyes startled the court of Heaven above.
Elder ApeThis strange child has no mother among our troop and fears none of us.
Gibbon MonkeyIf he can eat fruit and climb, the mountain may claim him.
Macaque MonkeyLet him follow one day before anyone crowns a miracle.
Choose
Show me the highest trees, and I will gather for everyone.
Judge me by whether I keep pace, not by where I began.