The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, protects Tang Sanzang on his journey west to obtain the scriptures. The Celestial Court's vested interests seize the chance to use Wukong to eliminate their rivals. But Wukong proves too powerful and increasingly difficult to control, so they devise a scheme to kill him during the ordeal of the true and false Monkey Kings.
Fortunately, Wukong saw it coming. He hid a wisp of his divine consciousness on Flower-Fruit Mountain and left a single hair in the mortal world. After he is killed, his consciousness possesses a body and revives. Drawing on the cultivation foundation he built in his past life, he rapidly grows stronger and bitterly cultivates the Dao to avenge himself...