Chen Xi, a solo crosstalk performer, accidentally transmigrates into the post-Journey to the West era and becomes Chen Sanzang, abbot of Bitter Enlightenment Temple: a burly monk who knows how to chant scriptures and hit people. By then, the pilgrimage team has completed its mission and become legend, while the Three Realms have descended into utter chaos. Immortals fight among themselves, Buddhists and Daoists feud, and no one cares whether mortals live or die. Demons run rampant, and even Great Tang is about to become Great Candy, nearly devoured whole!
To fulfill his cheap master's dying wish (and stay alive while he's at it), Chen Sanzang takes up the newly activated Three Realms Merit System and leads a crew of wildly unconventional disciples: a talkative panda spirit with a Shandong accent, a sharp-tongued python Daoist from Sichuan, a former Horse-Face from Henan who's secretly a romantic, and a jade rabbit spirit skilled in illusions. They set out from Great Tang to walk the pilgrimage route all over again.
“Demon! Let this poor monk reason with you...”
“You won't listen?”
“Then don't blame this poor monk for giving you a proper ‘deliverance’ with Arhat Fist!”
Along the way, he verbally spars with demons and monsters, beats immortals and Bodhisattvas into submission, and trades merit points for magical treasures and cultivation techniques, while helping the common folk on the side. Their goal: reach the Western Heaven and obtain the true scriptures, and, while they're at it... bury the Three Realms' suffocating rat race and bring a little justice to the world!
See how the rowdiest, toughest pilgrimage team in history jokes and brawls its way through 101 trials, laughing all the way as they save the world!
