College student Lin Xiaofan unexpectedly awakens the bloodline of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and sets out to tear through a modern Journey to the West across the globe with Sha Seng and Zhu Bajie! The chairman of the Golden Cicada Group turns out to be the reincarnation of the Tathagata. There are electronic Buddhist prayer beads wanted across the city, a thousand-year-old monster that can swipe credit cards, and mechanical Arhats using 5G towers to set up formations... Even Sun Wukong would have to call this pilgrimage high-tech!
To resurrect Zhu Bajie, whose soul was destroyed by the Tathagata, the trio roam far and wide in search of magnetic fields, battle with magic in a hotel rooftop pool, and use the subway as a Demon-Subduing Pestle! Their old friend Chen Hao turns against them to save his parents. At the high-speed rail station, Lin Xiaofan faces him in tears: “Didn’t we agree to become modern-day Tang Sanzang?” When the Golden Cudgel clashes with smart Buddhist prayer beads, Sha Seng tears open the Tathagata’s digital kasaya: “Master, it’s time to repay the blood debt of the Quicksand River!”
In this version of Journey to the West, demons work in CBD offices, Buddhas tap electronic wooden fish, and your merit points come from topping the charts, because the real Great Sage Equal to Heaven is currently scanning a QR code to pay at a chili crab stall!
