On the top of Lingshan Mountain, the tight hoop was broken, and the golden hoop was stained with blood - the moment when the real Wukong fell under the six-eared macaque stick, the three realms thought that "the victorious Buddha" had returned to his throne. No one saw the snickering behind the golden helmet, nor did they know that Xuan Chenzun, who once competed with the Jade Emperor, was dormant behind the scenes.
In the dark wind of the city of vain death, the remnant soul of Wukong survived with the glimmer of the three hairs of Yu Ze and Guanyin who were expelled from the book of life and death. Patriarch Bodhi risked his life to find him, and used the Confucian holy monument as his bones, the Taoist spiritual spring as his veins, and the Buddhist lotus petals as his soul to reshape his body. However, he was seriously injured in a surprise attack by Xuan Chen. On the verge of death, Bodhi breaks the barrier of the three realms and pushes Wukong, who has no cultivation at all, into the ruins of the ancient world - that is the starting point for his new life after his "soul ashes".
In the relics, he obtained the Haoran Heart Sutra from Shennong, followed Fuxi to learn the Eight Diagrams Mysterious Kung Fu, used Nuwa's Sky-Mending Stone to temper his body, conquered Baize, recast the Chaos Golden Cudgel, and gradually integrated the power of the three families, approaching the realm of "Hunyuan". When he returned with the spiritual energy of the ancient times in his body, he saw the six ears controlling the heaven through the Buddha's name, Xuan Chen refining the soul with the soul-eating cauldron, Bajie Sha Monk being imprisoned, the Buddhas in Lingshan were in a coma, and the people were struggling under the light of the hypocritical Buddha.
From the remnant soul of the dead city to the rebel with the power of Hunyuan, the moment Wukong raised the golden cudgel, what he wanted to split was not only Xuan Chen's conspiracy and Liu Er's disguise, but also the distorted "righteous way" of the three realms - he never came to fight for the Buddha's position, but just to let the world remember: the real Wukong never died.
