After discovering the conspiracy behind the journey to the West, Sun Wukong rampaged through the Great Thunderclap Monastery. His flesh was destroyed, and his soul was saved by Patriarch Bodhi and sent to another world… Sun Xiaochuan suddenly broke free from the torrent of data. Before him stretched a warped neon sky, while the air reeked of high-voltage electricity and synthetic exhaust. In the distance, cybernetic warriors rode anti-gravity boards, their prosthetic limbs flashing as lasers and streams of plasma shot from their palms, slicing through alloy skyscrapers. Nearby, neural hackers twined data links around their fingers, controlling swarms of armed drones on the streets. His mind reeled. Deep within his consciousness, an image appeared: an electronic monkey made of golden pixels, sleeping in the digital void. It radiated unruly streams of code, primal and wild. Most glaring of all was the cold, flashing band around its head, made of encrypted runes: a “digital tightening hoop”!
