The Dragon Kings kept the Ruyi Jingu Bang — an iron pillar left by Yu the Great — in Ao Guang's Crystal Palace as a stabilizing treasure of the Eastern Sea until Sun Wukong claimed it.
Sun Wukong descended to the Crystal Palace of the Eastern Sea and seized the Ruyi Jingu Bang — an iron pillar that shrank at his touch into a staff perfectly suited to his hands — defying the Dragon Kings who had guarded it for millennia.
Yu the Great wielded the Ruyi Jingu Bang as a divine measuring rod to sound the depths of rivers and seas while taming the great flood, then left it in the Eastern Sea where it became the stabilizing pillar of the ocean floor.
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