Five Hundred Years Under the Mountain: Merit System Overload

Trapped beneath the Five Elements Mountain for five centuries, I discovered something the heavens never intended—a Merit System that rewards every good deed with tangible power. While the Jade Emperor plots and Guanyin schemes, I'm busy turning Journey to the West into my personal leveling ground. Save the White Dragon Horse from despair? Check. Transform a broken spirit into a legendary Dragon God? Double check. Even that lazy pig demon becomes my star disciple. But when I start poaching Guanyin's chosen ones with promises of real merit instead of empty destiny, the celestial bureaucracy real…