A long, long time ago, in the Far West, there was a world called Paradise. This was the origin of civilization and faith, where humans and evil spirits coexisted in peaceful harmony. Suddenly, by a negative spiritual wave spreading over this world, the evil spirits and monsters become violent and begin attacking the humans. Ordered by the Celestial Heavens, a priest named Sanzo recruits his old comrades and sets out for the journey toward Indara in the faraway West to find the culprit behind this disaster

Sanzo's party drop in a town called Saika on the day of Festival of God. They notice that the God the folks worship here is Shien. They do not know why, but Shien comes down to this place today every year. Lilin, a loyal follower of Kogaiji, learns from Ni-Jen-Yi that Shien and tow other Gods took the Hallowed Sutra from Gyokumen-Koshu. Lilin comes up to Saika and wages battle to Shien for the Hallowed SutraŠ.