Journey to the WestThe Great Sage Equal to Heaven
A 16th-century Chinese adventure classic. A monkey born from stone wreaks havoc in Heaven, then joins a monk and a band of misfits on a journey west: the story of a rebel who learns to travel with friends.
- 15 episodes planned
- 5 available
- 19 pages / per episode
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Episodes
NEWEpisode 1
The Monkey Born of Stone Learns to CryBirth of Sun Wukong (Water Curtain Cave)
Episode 1. A monkey born from a magic stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain finds the Water-Curtain Cave hidden behind a waterfall and becomes the Handsome Monkey King. Five hundred years later, at a feast, the king sees that his childhood friend has grown old. Afraid of the death that comes for everyone, he weeps. Then, refusing to let the end take his friends, he sets out alone across the sea on a small raft.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 2
Three Taps on the Head. What Did They Mean?Sun Wukong's Apprenticeship with Subhuti
Episode 2. After watching a friend die, the Monkey King becomes terrified of endings. He crosses the sea to study under the immortal Patriarch Subhuti, who gives him the name "Sun Wukong." He cracks the riddle of three taps on the head and learns the way to escape death. But when he shows off his powers, he's expelled, and he flies home to face a demon king who has been terrorizing his people.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 3
There's Just One Way to Never DieThe Ruyi Jingu Bang and the Book of Life and Death
Episode 3. Wukong wants a weapon that can protect his friends, so he storms the Dragon Palace beneath the Eastern Sea. There, an iron pillar on the seabed becomes the Ruyi Staff, which grows and shrinks at his command. That same night, after drinking with his new sworn brothers, his soul is dragged to the Underworld, and he wipes his own name and his friends' names from the Ledger of Death.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 4
Hired by Heaven, Stuck in the StablesGreat Sage Equal to Heaven
Episode 4. Invited to Heaven, Wukong is made "Bimawen," keeper of the Heavenly Horses. He works day and night without sleep, then learns the job is so low it doesn't even have a rank. Furious, he goes home to Flower-Fruit Mountain and names himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. He drives off Heaven's army, and Nezha is the first to call him by that name. But what Heaven finally gives him is a rank with a big name and nothing else.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 5
Not Invited? He Ate the Whole FeastThe Peach Banquet and the Elixir Pills
Episode 5. Made guardian of Heaven's peach orchard, Sun Wukong secretly eats the immortal peaches. When he finds out he's the only one not invited to Heaven's grand banquet, he goes on a rampage. He devours the feast, gobbles up Laozi's golden elixir pills, and flees home to Flower-Fruit Mountain. Down on Earth, 110 years have already passed, and Heaven sends a hundred thousand soldiers after him.
19 pagesSeries plan15
Episode 4Available
Hired by Heaven, Stuck in the StablesGreat Sage Equal to Heaven
Episode 6In production
Battle of TransformationsErlang Shen
Episode 7Planned
The Palm of the Buddha
Episode 8Planned
Guanyin's Search and the Monk's Departure
Episode 9Planned
Freed from Five Elements Mountain
Episode 10Planned
The White Dragon of Eagle Grief Gorge
Episode 11Planned
The Pig Groom of Gao Village
Episode 12Planned
The River of Flowing Sand
Episode 13Planned
Lady White Bone Strikes Thrice
Episode 14Planned
Red Boy and the Samadhi Fire
Episode 15Planned
The Flaming Mountains and the Palm-Leaf Fan