After learning the scriptures, Sun Wukong was named the Fighting Buddha, and Zhu Bajie became the messenger of the altar.
But the Great Sage Qitian, who caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, was nowhere to be seen again.
He is no longer the monkey who dared to challenge the Jade Emperor, and he is no longer the demon king who defeated hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers with one stick. He was wearing a cassock and a golden hoop, standing on the Lingshan Mountain with his eyebrows lowered, like a tamed dog.
Chen Jueyuan, the grandson of Niufangwa, practiced hard in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain for seven years and then went down the mountain to find his relatives. He found Sun Wukong who had returned from studying for Buddhist scriptures, only to find that the once high-spirited Grandpa Sun had all the edges and corners worn off and became a Buddha who could only chant scriptures.
Zhu Bajie's son, Zhu Pengyun, walked out of Fuling Mountain alone at the age of eight, just to ask his father - "Why haven't you come back to see me in eight years?" But what he saw was a sloppy altar messenger who didn't even recognize his own son.
This is not the elder they remember.
This was not the man they were desperately trying to catch.
They gathered a group of forgotten friends in heaven - vowing to bring back the original Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie.
They want to crush Lingshan, not to rebel, but to rescue the real Monkey King from the Buddha's shell.
What they want to break is not the golden body, but the shackles.
