In a bizarre crack in time and space, Wu Ming was in a trance, receiving the intermittent fragments in his mind, like a puzzle, and gradually pieced together his new identity. It turned out that he actually became the almost forgotten character in "Journey to the West" - one of the unknown soldiers under Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty who escorted Monk Tang on his journey to the west, fighting side by side with the naive and powerful Wu Yuan.
