He felt that this matter was not so simple. In Journey to the West, Golden Cicada was ultimately granted Buddhahood, and Goku and the others also joined the Buddhist Sect.
In Uchiha Shin's view, Golden Cicada should not have fulfilled his own aspirations. Otherwise, things would never have turned out this way.
His arrival in this world had been strange from the start. He had no idea who was manipulating things behind the scenes.
Could it be that his arrival had prevented Golden Cicada from fulfilling his grand vow across ten lifetimes, after which Tathagata Buddha persuaded him to become the scripture-seeking monk and forget his own oath?
Although he knew the course of Journey to the West, the version he knew might very well have been deliberately designed by someone for Uchiha Shin to learn about before bringing him here.
That way, Uchiha Shin's thoughts would be confined within the course of Journey to the West, and perhaps he would follow the established sequence and allow its events to unfold.
At times, he could also alter the course of Journey to the West somewhat.
He could not change, nor should he change, the futures of people like Goku and Marshal Canopy. But that might not be true for everyone else. There were so many gods, demons, and monsters in Journey to the West—surely one or two of them could have their fates changed.
As long as one fate was changed, even a minor alteration would create a butterfly effect in the course of Journey to the West, and the final outcome would change as well.
However, Uchiha Shin did not yet dare to do that. He did not know whether the ending of Journey to the West would benefit or harm him.
He needed to learn more. So many