Heaven's Reluctant Saboteur: A Thousand Years Blocking the Journey to the West

Li Ling never asked to become the Jade Emperor's designated obstacle. Reborn into the Primordial World as a humble human cultivator and reluctant disciple of Tongtian, he survived the catastrophic God-Enshrining War only to land a dead-end job in Heaven's bureaucracy. When the legendary Sun Wukong's rampage forces the Jade Emperor and Buddha Tathagata to orchestrate the Journey to the West, they need someone expendable to play the villain—blocking the pilgrims just enough to maximize karmic merit without actually stopping them. The celestial officials refuse this thankless theater, so the task…