Monkey King, an arrogant and commanding monkey, who can do 72 character transforming changes and desires to be an immortal. He flies to heaven and asks Jade Emperor to complete his wish, as he wishes, he becomes a protector of horse. However, after he finds out not only he is deceived by Jade Emperor by offering a low-ranking position but also is not invited to Lady Queen Mother’s banquet; he eats all the immortal peaches. As result, Jade Emperor demands that the heaven officers and guards catch Monkey king, but none of them can defeat him. At the same time, when Monkey king is proud of himself and becomes the most powerful and eternal king of the time, the Buddha shows up.
Buddha tells Monkey
King to stop, but Monkey king wont. So Buddha makes a bet with him, “As long as
you can fly out of my palm, your sin will be revoked.” Monkey king takes the
challenge and jumps on his Cloud Somersault. However, no matter how far and how
high he has flown, he realizes there’s no way to escape from Buddha’s palm.
Finally, Monkey king has plead guilty, and been under the mountain till someone
who is called “Xuanzhang” releases him.
500 years pass.
One day, a young and ambitious monk called Xuanzhang , whose mission is going
to India and getting the scriptures back to China, passes the mountain. He
hears someone calling his name and asking for help. A kind monk rescues Monkey
King immediately. In order to thank Xuanzhang and also show his determination to
be good, Monkey king joins the journey as Xuanzhang’s disciple; and protects
him all the way to India. On their way to India, they also meet Piggy Monster,
who is a part human part pig monster, and Sandie Orc, who is an orc living
under the river. Piggy Monster and Sandie orc have also become Xuanzhang’s disciples
and accompanies with Xuanzhang on the road.
The travel is
unsafe and dangerous. All the monsters get excited about Xuanzhang’s arrival,
because they want to eat Xuanzhang, so they can be more powerful. In order to
bewitch Xuanzhang, the monsters transform themselves into different shapes.
However, Monkey King has supernatural eyes, he sees through all the monsters
and defeats them. Xuanzhang, on the other hand, is just a normal human being.
He doesn’t understand those people who are defeated by Monkey King are actually
monsters, and blames Monkey for killing the innocents. After an intense argument,
Monkey King decides to leave Xuanzhang.
After Monkey
leaves, only Piggy Monster and Sandie Orc are left to protect Xuanzhang. But
neither Piggy or Sandie is capable enough to protect Xuanzhang. Piggy is lazy
and bodily appertites, Sandie is slow-witted. The monsters are very happy about
this, especially the demon “Yellow rope”. Yellow rope kidnaps Xuanzhang while Piggy
is taking a nap!
When Piggy
and Sandie find out that Xuanzhang is missing, they don’t know what to. So Piggy
goes to find Monkey king and asks him to come back so they can all go to the demon’s
palace and rescue Xuanzhang. Meanwhile, Yellow rope is about to kill Xuanzhang.
Just as Xuanzhang is crying for help, Monkey, Piggy and Sandie break into the
palace and rescue Xuanzhang successfully. After the incident, Xuangzhang
apologize to Monkey king for his innocence and they continue on their journey
again. Although there are some other monsters waiting for them, such as OX king
and Spider beauties, Monkey can always turn peril into safety.
Finally,
they arrive in India and get the scriptures from Buddha. As they are
celebrating the completion of the mission, Sandie finds out that the scripture
are empty books! Everyone is confused, and Buddha appears. Budda tells them
this is the final test, and ask them a question about what the real treasure of
the journey is? No one has a good answer except Monkey King. When Monkey says
the real treasure is the journey itself, the Buddha smiley nods. After the
quiz, Buddha gives them the real scriptures. At the end of journey, they all
have changed and find out the real treasure is deep down in their heart.
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