Director: Liu Zhenwei
Main Cast:
Charles Choi as Yue Meiyan
Nicholas Tse as Longevity Monk
Fan Bingbing as Princess Xiaoshan
Chen Bolin as Monkey King
Zhang Zhiheng as Monk Sha
This is the first time that the movie has been released. Kwan Chi-Bin as Porky Pig
One hundred years ago, there was a legend in the Western Region that a monk from the Middle Kingdom, Tang San-Tang, would take his three disciples to a place called Shache City to retrieve a batch of ancient scriptures that had been stored for many centuries, which, according to the legend, would enable the world to put down its butcher's knives and stop killing people. And Shache City, is the last stop to fetch the scriptures. The story begins here.
Stop 1: The Battle of the Thousand-Year Bug Demon
The four members of the Tang Dynasty saw men and women singing and dancing in a parade of welcome outside Shache City, but they did not know that the Thousand-Year Bug Demon had actually robbed all the children in the city and asked the people of the city to exchange them for the Tang Dynasty's masters and disciples. After Wukong realizes the trick, a melee begins, and Sun Wukong wraps the Tang Monk in a wire of adamantine and throws him far away. As they parted, he handed the Golden Cudgel to his master. After the Longevity Monk wrapped in adamantine silk disappeared into the sky, the three Sun Wukongs, who were on a killing spree, were taken down by insect demons.
Station 2: Encountering a demon girl and a beautiful woman each
The Longevity Monk lands in a village in the swamps of the Ganges District, where a merry band of demons live. The monsters are all running around telling each other that the famous love saint of the universe, "Sun Wukong" (mistakenly called Sun Wukong because of the Tang Monk's golden rod), has descended from the sky. In order to attract the Longevity Monk with the Monkey King, the monsters sent the ugliest female lizard demon to guard the Monkey King. When Tang Sanzang woke up, he saw the beauty of the female demon Yue at first sight. A few days later, the Tang Sanzang found a big snow-white egg in the cave where Yue Meiyan lived. Opening the egg shell, he saw a stunningly beautiful woman curled up in it, which was the alien Xiao Shan.
Once in a dream, Tang Sanzang unintentionally speaks out of his sleep, allowing Yue Meiyan to discover the secret that he is the Longevity Monk. Yue Meiyan, who had wanted to eat the Longevity Monk's flesh, suddenly realizes that she can't lay her hands on him, and realizes that she has fallen in love with him. At this time, the bug demon searching for the Tang Sanzang's trail came to Yue Meiyan's place, and the two of them fled to the edge of the East China Sea in a golden band in a hurry.
Station 3: Breaking through the Southern Heavenly Gate
The Turtle Prime Minister, who had lost the divine needle (the Golden Cudgel), rose from the sea and wanted to claim back the Golden Cudgel. Tang Sanzang and Yue Meiyan teamed up to say that the turtle prime minister killed himself, the Dragon King of the East China Sea led the shrimp soldiers and crab generals to come to claim their lives, the two once again with the help of the Golden Cudgel escaped to the South Heavenly Gate, and then killed the four heavenly kings, and escaped once again.
While the monsters in the village have discovered the secret that the Monkey King is the Tang Sanzang, Yue Meiyan says that she has poisoned the Tang Sanzang and it will take a month for the poison to be removed. She also hopes that through this month, Tang Sanzang will really become a demon and stay by her side, and arranges all kinds of schemes to make Tang Sanzang "fall". Tang Sanzang really changed his character and decided to be with the demon. One day, he talks to Xiao Shan, who comes out of the egg, and learns that she is the princess of the aliens, who used to live on Earth, and has now come to Earth again in order to avoid marriage. Xiao Shan says she is in love with the first person who probed into the egg to see her, and Tang Sanzang secretly thinks, "Isn't that me?"
Station 4: Love Alert! Star Wars!
Once by chance, Tang Sanzang learns that Yue Meiyan has designed to deceive him, and after angrily reprimanding Yue Meiyan, he tells her that he no longer loves her. And went to rescue his disciple with Princess Xiao Shan. The sad Yue Meiyan sadly left behind after realizing that she is not a demon either, but a child abandoned by aliens. Yue Meiyan puts on her own token and transforms into a truly beautiful woman. Yue Meiyan immediately rushes to the insect demon's lair and joins the battle between Tang Sanzang and Xiao Shan. After a big battle, the three Monkey King are rescued. Princess Xiao Shan reveals that she loves Yue Meiyan and wants her to return to the outer planets with her, but ends up leaving alone in a spaceship.
Station 5: Buddha Rulai appears
The Jade Emperor decides to try Yue Meiyan for killing the Four Heavenly Kings. Tang Sanzang suddenly realizes the true love in his heart, and wreaks havoc in the Heavenly Palace for Meiyan. The Jade Emperor decides to judge Yue Meiyan for killing the Four Heavenly Kings. In order to punish Yue Meiyan for her offense against the rules of heaven, and in order to let the four masters and disciples, who have yet to realize their true love, Rulai turns Yue Meiyan into the White Dragon Horse, so that the Tang Sanzang can go back to fetching scriptures. At the end of the movie, Tang Sanzang trots after the angry White Dragon Horse, explaining to himself all his faults, and walks towards the West, one person and one horse.
Demystifying the mystery of "Journey to the West," "Epileptic Sage" tells you about the real Longevity Monk
He's nagging because he had the most beautiful love of all
The Epileptic Sage is a prequel to the whole series, but it's not tightly integrated into the plot of the next two episodes. Liu Chun-wei deciphers a telling clue as to how Tang San-zang became the Longevity Monk.
How did the Tang Monk become a nag?
The Longevity Monk-style nagging played by Law Ka Ying is probably the most vital nag in the world, with someone always repeating them in your ear from a decade ago to today. But the truth is, when the Longevity Monk was still the Tang Sanzang, he was only a mild sufferer of nagging disorder, but he had the misfortune to meet Yue Meiyan, who was even more annoying than him. The ugly Yue Meiyan has a low self-esteem, and the only way to hide it is to always talk ahead of everyone else, and to speak very fast. At the end of the episode, Yue Meiyan turned into a white horse, the Tang Sanzang completely lost the speaking opponent, he not only have to speak, but also to constantly guess Yue Meiyan's mind, speak on her behalf, and finally fell into the heavy nagging disease patients Tang monk.
How did the Tang Monk know how to give up his life for righteousness?
The Tang Sanzang encounters the enlightenment of Buddha Rudra at the end of this episode, and he finally understands how limited and unlimited love can affect a person. In the eyes of Liu Zhenwei, the love of the Supreme Being is a limited love, while the love of Tang Sanzang is the love of the greater self. Why can Tang Sanzang love the whole world but not one more woman? Because loving only one woman is ego love. When Tang Sanzang understood this, he finally understood that loving someone doesn't have to be fruitful. Therefore, when he saw the obsessive as his past Supreme Treasure again, he already had the spirit of sacrificing his life for righteousness.
Why did the Tang Monk not approach women later?
When the Tang Monk was young, he had already experienced the best love in the world and had been enlightened by Rulai. From then on, no woman would disturb his heart.