Introducing Sun Wukong, The Monkey King
Sun Wukong's story is very well known as it is an integral part of Chinese mythology but the true story behind The Monkey King was lost before it was ever written. This is it, The Story of Sun Wukong.
Chapter 1
On top of Mountain Huago a lone Monkey sculpture for the Jade Emperor begins sculpting assistants or even more children to help him with his work out of stone, Of the first wave of 100 children the monkey that would be known as Sun Wukong was among them. A favorite among his thousands of siblings he often proven to be more zealous and cocky. He often caught the envious stare of his brothers and sisters as the favored son of there father. This favoritism earned the currently nameless monkey a meeting with the Jade emperor who as curious of his sculptures current creations. His first impressions of the young monkey were well enough that he sent the monkey to go train under one of his Buddhist monks where he would train to take his place.
Chapter 2
Training under the Buddhist monk gave Sun Wukong interest but not nearly as much as he had hoped for preferring a more "adventurous" and "higher" life. Eventually he accompanied his mentor to meet the ten Judges of the dead. He was unaware that the reason they were called is because his mentor was to die soon of age, due to his respect for his mentor and disinterest in taking the monks place Sun Wukong stole the Book Of Life and Death erasing his name and that of his mentors moving them out of the life and death equation. The judges were angered by this and took up there argument with the Jade emperor who agreed with there argument and sentenced Sun Wukong to death.
Chapter 3
Sun Wukong was sentenced to death and due to his own will and sorcery learned from the monk he was able to survive every one of his normal deaths demanding that he be given a higher role in the chain of command for his abilities. The Jade emperor did not wish to waste any of his higher forms of punishment on the monkey and decided to grant his request albeit in a way that Sun Wukong found unpleasing. Sun Wukong was granted the Title of "Keeper of the Heavenly Horses" which was simply a nice way of saying stable boy. Sun Wukong was certainly not done making his point.
Chapter 4
Sun Wukong gives himself his own title as "Great Sage Equal To Heaven" and infiltrates a private dinner between the highest mortals and gods hosted by Lord Ba Xian. he rebels again, stealing Xī Wáng Mǔ’s peaches of immortality, Lao Tzu’s pills of longevity, and the Jade Emperor’s royal wine, devouring them all. He then returns to the Cave of the Water Curtain, where the Army of Heaven attacks. It was here where Wukong met the man who would become his greatest rival, Heavens General, Erlang Shen. A Fellow student of the Buddhist monk and another up and coming being in the current rank. Erlang Shen as a teenager was already one of Heavens greatest general who was the exact opposite of Sun Wukong, He was beyond all else loyal and obedient. The Two fought in one on one combat channeling there abilities learned so far in there life. The battle last 5 days and 5 nights, but was only stopped by the gods after seeing how much of an even match the two were.
Chapter 5
There was practically a civil war among the gods as to Sun Wukong's fate some believing such a worthy warrior should be used as one of there generals while others believe he lacked the obedience such a title requires.
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