Great Demon Sun Wukong

About the story of the Six-Eared Macaque and Sun Wukong, this dates back a long time ago.

Legend has it that there are four Great Divine Monkeys in the Monkey Tribe, and whenever an era of chaos approaches, the Great Divine Monkeys all make their appearance. Moreover, to lead the Monkey Tribe, there will emerge a Monkey King from among the four Great Divine Monkeys.

This time, however, the four Great Divine Monkeys of the Monkey Tribe were somewhat peculiar. The first to descend was the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey. The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey knew yin and yang, understood human affairs, was adept at entering and exiting, and evaded death to prolong life.

After the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey descended into the world, he led the Monkey Tribe to visit famous mountains and spirit lands, finally reaching Flower Fruit Mountain in the Aolai country of East Shengzhou. The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey, with his innate divine power, claimed a place for himself on Flower Fruit Mountain.

Afterward, the Monkey Tribe multiplied there. Eventually, one hundred and twenty years later, the Through-back Ape was born. The Through-back Ape could grab the sun and the moon, made mountains shrink, discerned fortune and misfortune, and played with the universe.

However, the Through-back Ape was not satisfied with the status quo, feeling that the Monkey Tribe should not hide in such a remote place but should pursue better development. After a big argument with the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey, the Through-back Ape led a group of tribesfolk and left Flower Fruit Mountain.

Perhaps due to the discord between the two divine monkeys, it might have displeased the Heavenly Dao. Thus, the Six-Eared Macaque and the Ling Ming Stone Monkey were born one after the other.

The Six-Eared Macaque was good at listening, understood principles, knew past and future, and everything was clear to him. The Ling Ming Stone Monkey could change forms, knew the timing of the heavens, the advantages of the earth, and could move stars and alter the constellations.

After the Ling Ming Stone Monkey was born, his divine powers led the Monkey Tribe to discover the Water Curtain Cave Heaven. He made a great contribution to the Monkey Tribe, and under the drive of the Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey, the entire Monkey Tribe proclaimed the Ling Ming Stone Monkey as the Monkey King and named him the Beautiful Monkey King.

In this way, with spring going and winter coming, with flowers blooming and withering, fifty years of spring and autumn passed by. Finally, an event occurred within the Monkey Tribe that would change the tribe's fate forever. An old monkey, too advanced in years, quietly passed away one night.

This greatly shocked the Ling Ming Stone Monkey, who was now known as the Beautiful Monkey King. Only then did he realize that everything has its destiny. All people and all things will face death one day. In death, there is no knowledge, no laughter, no play, no eating fruits together, no drinking spring water together. Even the body would slowly decay and eventually vanish.

That was truly terrifying. Both the Ling Ming Stone Monkey and the Six-Eared Macaque were scared out of their wits. How could there be such a horrifying thing as death in this world? Driven by fear, and not wanting to die, Sun Wukong decided to set out to sea alone, seeking a spell of eternal life in the outside world.

And so, one night, Sun Wukong set off on a bamboo raft, venturing across the vast ocean, adrift without a sense of direction.

The same night, in another part of Flower Fruit Mountain, the Six-Eared Macaque also packed some fruits and set off on a bamboo raft alone, leaving Flower Fruit Mountain. He shared Sun Wukong's goal, to learn a spell that grants eternal life.

Thus, on the same night, two monkeys with the same dream set off in different directions, embarking on their respective futures.

Later, Sun Wukong arrived in the Western Niu He Zhou and became a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi, studying Taoist arts. This is well-known and need not be mentioned now, but speaking of the Six-Eared Macaque, after drifting on the sea for a full three years, he too arrived at a jurisdiction. This jurisdiction was the busiest haunt of all sorts of demons and ghosts in the world, Beiju Luzhou.

In ancient times, in the central part of the world inhabited by humans, there was Mount Sumeru (also known as Mount Miaogao, meaning "wonderfully high" or "wonderfully bright"), which towered 84,000 leagues above the water surface and reached equally deep below it. Nine mountains and eight seas surrounded it, forming the Mount Sumeru world.

The nine mountains are: Mount Sumeru, Mount Jishuang, Mount Jizhou, Mount Danmu, Mount Shanjian, Mount Maer, Mount Xiangbi, Mount Jibian, and Mount Tiewei. The seven inner seas were formed by the Eight Merits Water, and the outer sea was made of salt water.

Between the eighth Mount Jibian and the ninth Mount Tiewei, the ocean enclosed four continents known as the Sumeru Four Continents. To the east was East Shengzhou, to the south was South Jambudvipa, to the west was Western Niu He Zhou, and to the north was Northern Beiju Luzhou.

The Beiju Luzhou is located in the Salty Sea to the north of Mount Sumeru, stretching out in all four directions, each side two thousand yojanas long, shaped like a box lid, surrounded by the Seven Gold Mountains and the Great Iron Surrounding Mountains, with the ground being made of gold, shining day and night.

After the Six-Eared Macaque arrived at Beiju Luzhou, he felt as though he had entered a fairyland, full of marvelous forests, rivers, and many unheard-of and unseen creatures and fruits. The Six-Eared Macaque even believed that he had arrived at the dwelling place of immortals, as told in the legends.

However, in the five years that followed, the Six-Eared Macaque came to fully understand that this was no place where immortals lived, but a world much crueler than Flower Fruit Mountain. Though seemingly beautiful, it was rife with danger at every turn, and teeming with powerful ferocious beasts. One moment of carelessness could result in death on the spot.

But the Six-Eared Macaque had no choice; his only belief was to survive, not just for himself, but for the entire Monkey Tribe. He couldn't die, and neither could anyone else. Thus, he honed his skills in life-and-death struggles and endured loneliness.

Finally, through his Innate Divine Power and an unbending faith, the Six-Eared Macaque miraculously managed to survive for five full years in Beiju Luzhou, a place fraught with crises.

In those five years, Six-Eared Macaque hardly had a day of peace. He was constantly engaged in battle. Gradually, his fighting shifted from a battle for survival to a battle for strength. When the Six-Eared Macaque became strong enough, he did not stop; instead, he continued moving northward.

He learned from the numerous ferocious beasts that in the far north of Beiju Luzhou, there existed an extremely terrifying being. It was because of this person that no power in the world dared to covet Beiju Luzhou.

Otherwise, although Beiju Luzhou was somewhat poorer than the other three great continents, it was not much different. Such a leaderless land was highly coveted by various powers. Whichever force took control of Beiju Luzhou could see a rapid increase in power in an extremely short period.

Yet, such a potent land had remained unscathed for millions of years. All this was because of the terrifying existence in the far north of Beiju Luzhou. As long as he was alive, Beiju Luzhou would belong to the Demon Clan for another day; moreover, it was the freest nation of the Demon Clan.

Once the Six-Eared Macaque learned all this, there was only one belief in his heart. Defeat this person, and then unify Beiju Luzhou, making this continent a territory of the Monkey Tribe.

Once this thought took hold, it spread wildly within the heart of the Six-Eared Macaque. And this notion became ever more resolute until it eventually became the sole driving force of the Six-Eared Macaque's life.

After the fifth year had passed, the Six-Eared Macaque had become the most powerful being in Beiju Luzhou. Whether in the Demon Forest or the Myriad Evils Mountain Range, the Six-Eared Macaque had become the strongest of all.

After defeating the mightiest Dragon Horn Crocodile in the Misty Marsh, the Six-Eared Macaque decided to challenge that most powerful being. To find him, and then defeat him.

Three months later, Six-Eared Macaque finally reached the farthest north of Beiju Luzhou. It was a place where snow fell year-round, and the fierce wind howled. But strangely, not a single snowflake lay on the ground—only a barren land stretched as far as the eye could see.

The Six-Eared Macaque of this moment had changed tremendously from five years earlier. He was dressed in animal skin, seemingly that of a tiger's. And indeed it was the case. The Six-Eared Macaque was wearing the skin of the most powerful thousand-year Tiger King from the Demon Forest. After a battle that lasted a full day and night, costing him an arm, the Six-Eared Macaque finally slew it.

The Six-Eared Macaque was not only clad in tiger skin but also had a string of teeth hanging around his neck—teeth of the Dragon Horn Crocodile from the Misty Marsh. In his hand, he carried a staff thicker than his wrist and even longer than he was tall. At first glance, the staff appeared to be a crude log of wood.

However, this staff was the heartwood of a Dragon Blood Iron Tree from Beiju Luzhou, a tree rumored to have formed from the blood of an Azure Dragon Divine Beast that had dripped onto an iron tree during a battle in ancient times. Over millennia, this iron tree became indestructible, its toughness surpassing even that of the Tortoise Shell of Black Tortoise among the Four Divine Beasts.

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The Six-Eared Macaque was ready. For the future of the Monkey Tribe, this battle must be won!