After five hundred years, the Five Elements Mountain cracks apart, and the Golden Cudgel roars across the nine heavens once more! The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, breaks free and returns, only to find Flower-Fruit Mountain scorched and barren. Amid broken steles and severed limbs, the tearful accusations of the surviving old monkeys tear open old wounds: five hundred years of extermination by the Celestial Court, Erlang Shen Yang Jian’s icy blade cutting down loyal souls, and the blazing fire of the Third Prince Nezha consuming their paradise. The blood feud burns through his golden eyes. He erases his name from the Book of Life and Death to break his chains, only to face a hundred thousand celestial soldiers at his doorstep and a “pardon” delivered at spearpoint.
When Yang Jian’s blade splits Marshal Liu’s spine, when Nezha’s Universe Ring smashes General Ba’s skull, when General Beng breathes his last in Wukong’s arms, crying, “Avenge us,” the scorched earth of Flower-Fruit Mountain buries their old bonds for good. Divine eyes meet golden ones; the Seventy-Two Transformations clash with the Celestial Eye. Every collision between these old foes is splashed with their people’s blood and tears, until a massacre targeting the old and weak brands hatred deep into their souls.
Bound by demon-binding cords, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven remembers not only the hypocritical edicts from the Hall of Miraculous Mists, but also Yang Jian’s cold, indifferent face and the scorch marks on Nezha’s armor. The blood debt has raised a ladder to heaven, but the true darkness is only just being revealed. As the Celestial Court’s rotten hand emerges behind the crisis threatening the Three Realms, as Yang Jian, who has always upheld the laws of heaven, glimpses the lies behind “order,” and as Nezha discovers the filthy dealings beneath his lotus-root body, fate drives these old enemies to the brink. For the first time, they wield their blades side by side for all living beings!
They will smash through the Southern Heavenly Gate, burn the plaques of loyalty and filial piety with the Fire-Tipped Spear, sever the laws of the Investiture of the Gods with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, and shatter the throne in the Hall of Miraculous Mists with the Golden Cudgel! Trust, tempered in blood and fire, will become a pillar holding up the heavens. The most defiant souls in the Three Realms will rewrite the firmament with the fiercest flames of rebellion!
