Journey to the West Meets Modern Civilization

Restless Sun Wukong, the protagonist of Journey to the West, refuses to stay cooped up inside his immortal stone womb any longer. He kicks apart a crack in the stone and slips out under cover of night. In gratitude for the great merit of the stone that mended the heavens, the greater world bestows a wisp of primordial purple qi upon him. It arrives the next day, but the monkey mistakes it for something worthless and swats it away. The primordial purple qi travels through space and lands on the phone of Jun Wuhen, a villager on Earth. Since the phone is bound to Jun Wuhen, the qi enters his sea of consciousness. Some of it transforms into the phone, some tempers his body, and most of it remains in his sea of consciousness. A tiny trace of the qi left on the monkey’s hand also enters his sea of consciousness and forms a phone, establishing a connection with Jun Wuhen on Earth. After learning the full story, Jun Wuhen, who has read Journey to the West countless times, decides to change Sun Wukong’s fate. The monkey has always been toyed with by the Western Spirit Mountain because he lacks worldly experience, so Jun Wuhen takes him as his disciple and names him Hou Xuanyuan. Thus begins his mission to wreck the Journey to the West and exhaust the Tathagata...