In the post-Journey to the West era, Tianting and Lingshan established a dark order with the "Tiandao Cauldron" plan - using the origins of the four spiritual monkeys to control the four poles, using the five poisons of Buddhist scriptures to refine the fire of karma, and extracting the spiritual energy of the three realms as private property. The remnant soul of the Monkey King, who had been suppressed for five hundred years, awakened, possessed the mortal Orion Zhang Jiulang, and embarked on the road of resistance with his broken memories.
He glimpsed the alchemy scam created by Buddhism and Taoism in the Five Elements Mountain, found the fragment of the golden hoop in the Flame Mountain to awaken the fighting spirit, and uncovered the mystery of the twins of the Bone Lady and Guanyin in the Secret Realm of the Bones. As the truth about Sha Seng's skull necklace, Bajie's golden elixir of love, and Bailong's scale-reverse shackles are revealed one after another, Zhang Jiulang is shocked to realize that he is actually the tenth reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, and that Journey to the West has been a god-killing conspiracy that "uses the blood of Buddha as a guide and the demon soul as firewood" from beginning to end.
When the origins of the four monkeys resonated and the remains of the ancient god revived, he shattered the tight hoop incantation and used the mother core of the Heaven-Mending Stone as a blade to split the puppet net of the thirty-third heaven. But in the cracks of the new way of heaven, mortals are still carving the totem of "freedom" in the pool of blood - it turns out that the most sharp resistance is never the earth-shattering war cry, but the inner fire that will never be extinguished when the ants burn their bodies.
