500 years after Sun Wukong's imprisonment under the Five Fingers Mountain, a young Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang sets out for a journey to the Thunder Monastery in India to collect Buddha's scriptures. On his travels he accidentally frees Wukong and the Monkey King learns that he has to protect the monk throughout the journey, being bound by an enchanted headband that can cause him pain. Soon the duo meet Zhu Bajie, a lustful pig demon, and Sha Wujing, a djinn-like monk.

 

 

The company travel to the Yun Hai Xi Kingdom, a land terrorized by the White Bone Demon who snatches children. As the demoness learns about Sanzang, she decides to eat him in order to stop her reincarnation cycle and achieve everlasting demon-hood. And the Monkey King must protect Sanzang from White Bone Demon...