The Galactic Empire has rotted for a thousand years. Its three tiers of star regions are rigidly stratified, its nobles content with their luxuries, and its common people relentlessly squeezed by privileged powers and interstellar warlords. Meanwhile, three great calamities from beyond the known realms lurk like predators, using brute force and resource plunder to drag the galaxy into endless darkness.
Xuanzang, an exiled imperial scholar, gives up a promising future and arrives on the desolate Gravel Wasteland Star, guided by his belief that “hope can be found through empirical evidence.” There he unexpectedly meets Wukong, who has been living among the people in secret and publishing the awakening magazine Spark. One is compassionate and armed with the truth; the other is unruly and extraordinarily powerful. The two hit it off at once and embark on a desperate quest to find the “truth of the galaxy” and awaken its people.
Along the way, they recruit Bajie, a former imperial general in exile, and Wujing, a spaceship pilot on the run. Each of the four brings a different strength: Xuanzang leads with ideas, Wukong provides the fighting power, Bajie handles strategy, and Wujing manages logistics. Together, they fight their way from a desolate frontier planet to the heart of the empire, crushing the calamities' puppets, dismantling the warlords' fiefdoms, and exposing the conspiracies of the privileged.
Thorns and dangers line the road ahead, and every step is perilous. Every battle on the path to enlightenment is a fight for life and death. In mortal bodies, they resist injustice and oppression, drive out calamities from beyond the known realms, and unite the faint lights of the common people to forge a galactic dawn! When Wukong's Golden Cudgel tears through the darkness of space, when the calamities' iron hooves are crushed, and when the people's cries ring across the galaxy, light will finally come to the entire galaxy!
A high-octane interstellar power fantasy with no saintly heroine and no frustrating setbacks. This master-and-disciple team overcomes every obstacle, rising from fugitives to saviors of the galaxy. The action never lets up, and it only gets more addictive!
