The two films start off with an introduction scene based somewhere in the midst of the classic Journey to the West. On the journey to find holy Scriptures, the Monkey King, Sun Wukong (Stephen Chow), finding his master, the Longevity Monk (Law Kar-ying), too talkative and annoying, rebels and tries to get rid of him by giving him to the Bull King in exchange for marrying the Bull King's sister. As punishment, Guanyin captures and decides to lock unrepentant Wukong away for eternity. Yet, she is stopped by Sun Wukong's master, who maintains that he should receive some of the blame for his disciple's faults. He willingly takes Wukong's place by sacrificing himself to give Wukong a second chance – a life for a life.
The film properly starts 500 years later, when Wukong has been reincarnated as the leader of a troupe of desert bandits named Joker, who has no memories about is previous live as Wukong. Joker gets involved with different demons and women. Through the course of the movie, Joker is in love with a demon woman, Pak Gwut-Jing (Karen Mok), who also loves him in return. Joker while having a quarrel with her sister, the Spider Woman (Lam Kit Ying), accidentally locks himself in a cave. He tries to dig a tunnel to get out, but instead he finds Pandora's Box. He was also teleported to the Water Curtain Cave, where he saw Sun Wukong's gold ring and golden rod. When he opens up a scroll beside the ring, Guanyin speaks through the scroll to tell Joker of his fate as Sun Wukong; he won't become the Monkey King however, until meets the person who'll give him the three dots on the sole of his feet. Meanwhile Jing returns to find that her partner just gave birth to a child which was fathered by Joker's assistant, but she says it was by Joker to spite her, and because of this, Jing commits suicide. Joker returns to find her dead. Thinking someone has killed her, he uses Pandora's Box to try to find the killer, but he is one step too late. Thus he repeats this process for a few times until he manages to find the truth and stop Jing by explaining to her. Meanwhile, the Bull King arrives and engages in combat with the two sisters. In the fight, Jing is killed in the process of protecting Joker. Using Pandora's Box, Joker goes back in time to save her again, but accidentally transports himself 500 years into the past, the time that Sun Wukong came from.
In this time period, Joker meets a female spirit named Lin Zixia (Athena Chu) who confiscates Pandora's Box and gives Joker the three dots on the sole, thus enabling him to become Sun Wukong. She and her sister where punished by Buddha for being too quarrelsome and are now cursed to share the same body; one of them has control during the day, the other during the night.
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The film properly starts 500 years later, when Wukong has been reincarnated as the leader of a troupe of desert bandits named Joker, who has no memories about is previous live as Wukong. Joker gets involved with different demons and women. Through the course of the movie, Joker is in love with a demon woman, Pak Gwut-Jing (Karen Mok), who also loves him in return. Joker while having a quarrel with her sister, the Spider Woman (Lam Kit Ying), accidentally locks himself in a cave. He tries to dig a tunnel to get out, but instead he finds Pandora's Box. He was also teleported to the Water Curtain Cave, where he saw Sun Wukong's gold ring and golden rod. When he opens up a scroll beside the ring, Guanyin speaks through the scroll to tell Joker of his fate as Sun Wukong; he won't become the Monkey King however, until meets the person who'll give him the three dots on the sole of his feet. Meanwhile Jing returns to find that her partner just gave birth to a child which was fathered by Joker's assistant, but she says it was by Joker to spite her, and because of this, Jing commits suicide. Joker returns to find her dead. Thinking someone has killed her, he uses Pandora's Box to try to find the killer, but he is one step too late. Thus he repeats this process for a few times until he manages to find the truth and stop Jing by explaining to her. Meanwhile, the Bull King arrives and engages in combat with the two sisters. In the fight, Jing is killed in the process of protecting Joker. Using Pandora's Box, Joker goes back in time to save her again, but accidentally transports himself 500 years into the past, the time that Sun Wukong came from.
In this time period, Joker meets a female spirit named Lin Zixia (Athena Chu) who confiscates Pandora's Box and gives Joker the three dots on the sole, thus enabling him to become Sun Wukong. She and her sister where punished by Buddha for being too quarrelsome and are now cursed to share the same body; one of them has control during the day, the other during the night.