The Monkey King Sun Wu Kung
Magic stone bursts into an egg. Out of the egg comes a stone ape and rays of light shone out of his eyes.
He passes through the waterfall (acting as a natural barrier) and finds a bridge, there was a tablet stating: “This is the heavenly cave behind the water-curtain on the Blessed Island of Flowers and Fruits.”
He brought the ape pack through the waterfall into the cave castle across the bridge; the stone ape was made king. By day they played and ate and relaxed and by night they lived safely in their stone cave guarded by the waterfall.
300 years passes.
Three kinds of living creatures who are exempt from Death’s power: the Buddhas, the blessed spirits, and the gods. Whoever attains one of these three grades escapes the rod of rebirth, and lives as long as the Heavens themselves.
Stone ape decides to seek out these creatures to learn how to become immortal.
He sailed to Asia on a raft, got there learned the proper ways; these people did not care for life but wealth and honors. Reaching the western side of Asia he built another raft to sail across and find the immortal beings.
He meets a woodchopper who takes him to a saint, The Discerner. One of the disciples lets him in.
The master asks for his name and he responds that he has none and the master names him Sun Wu Kung. The stone ape learned many things but only wanted to learn the way that would grant him eternal life.
Gave him a riddle to come to see him during the night through the back door and teach him the great truth in secret.
The master murmured into his ear a divine, magical incantation to further the concentration of his vital powers and explained the hidden knowledge word for word. Completed this divine training in three years.
Then the Master again murmured a secret incantation into his ear, by means of which he gained the power to transform himself seventy-two times to protect himself from the danger of demons and spirits.
The master tells him to go home.
Devil King of Chaos took many of the apes fighting Sun Wu Kongs children and tried to take over the cave.
Sun Wu began to give the devil a beating. Sun Wu Kung, had eighty-four thousand hairs on his body that transformed into apes to attack the devil king. Sun Wu ended the devil king
Faces the dragon King to get a weapon suitable enough; he was given a divine iron rod
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The Monkey King: The wild life and adventures of the audacious "Monkey King," Sun Wu Kung.
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