Only This Time It Can Be Won By Mortals

The story of the Eight Immortals vary from series to series. One of them has the Singaporean TV series which was very last 90s. What was strange was that it came a year after Mortal Kombat 4 was released in 1997. So what's the bit of the coincidence?

The main antagonist was known as Tong Tian Jiao Zhu a fallen Elder God. This fallen Elder God has escaped his confines in the Netherrealm and has returned wreaking havoc to the Universe with the Jie Cult. Mortal Kombat fans might want to see it as the show's version of the Brotherhood of the Shadow and Tong Tian Jiao Zhu as Shinnok. His right-hand man is Pan Golin a free-roaming sorcerer (Quan Chi) who would later betray him in some versions of the myth. He seeks to overthrow the Elder Gods. Yama the ruler of the afterlife was in charge of keeping the fallen Elder God imprisoned - that was until the fallen Elder God temporarily took over the Netherrealm.

Unlike in Mortal Kombat X or Mortal Kombat 4 -- the Elder Gods aren't too indifferent about the situation of a fallen Elder God on the loose. Instead, they decided to choose eight mortals worthy of immortality to fight the battle. Their task was to restore balance in the Universe. The Supreme Elder God the Jade Emperor orders Dong Hua who has become a saint to find seven others to battle said threat. Dong Hua would later be reincarnated as Lu Dong Bin to help seven other mortals achieve immortality faster so they can defeat the fallen Elder God. The Elder Gods gave the Eight Immortals the help they needed to defeat the Brotherhood of the Shadow.

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