Between Beast And Buddha: A Drunken Monkey's Journey to Immortality
A83/100Web serial by Turniper
Orange-crest is a monkey with simple desires: warm summer days lazing with his siblings, sampling the variety of fruit and grubs Mount Yuelu provides. Unlike his brothers, he is endlessly curious — and no subject arouses that curiosity more than the mysteries of fermentation. One fateful night, he finds himself enjoying an experimental brew far more potent than usual. Daoist Scouring Medicine is a man disgraced, caught between his uncompromising vision for pill refining and the politics of a world that discards its ideals the moment they stand in the way of profit. He wanders the slopes of an unfamiliar mountain, hitting the gourd harder than any self-respecting daoist should. From a pair of poorly considered drunken decisions, a sequence of events is set into motion that will one day shake the very heavens.