Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and Bai Long Ma serve as Xuanzang's disciples and protectors on the pilgrimage to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from India.
Sun Wukong and Niu Mowang swore an oath of brotherhood as two of the Seven Great Demon Kings before the Journey to the West.
The Jade Emperor appointed Sun Wukong as keeper of the Pantao Yuan to placate the restless Monkey King, but Sun Wukong devoured the choicest peaches instead of guarding them, precipitating the havoc in Heaven.
Sun Wukong walked beside Xuanzang for fourteen years and eighty-one tribulations, battling demons and spirits at every turn to shield the monk who could not lift a sword in his own defense.
Guanyin arranged Sun Wukong's release from Five Elements Mountain, gave Xuanzang the golden headband to control him, and guided the pilgrims throughout the Journey to the West.
Hong Hai'er kidnapped Xuanzang and battled Sun Wukong with samadhi fire at Withered Pine Stream before being subdued by Guanyin.
Sun Wukong rebelled against the Jade Emperor's authority over Heaven, defeating celestial armies and ravaging the Peach Garden before being subdued by the Buddha.
Liu'er Mihou impersonated Sun Wukong so perfectly that neither the gods of Heaven, the judges of Diyu, nor Guanyin herself could distinguish the true Monkey King from the impostor, plunging the pilgrimage into chaos.
Sun Wukong and Niu Mowang fought over the Banana Leaf Fan at the Flaming Mountains, their former brotherhood shattered by Sun Wukong's role in Red Boy's capture.
Princess Iron Fan refused Sun Wukong the Banana Leaf Fan and fought him at Cuiyun Mountain, blaming him for Guanyin's capture of her son Red Boy.
Sun Wukong struck down Baigujing three times as she appeared in disguise — first as a young woman, then as her mother, then as her father — each blow revealing nothing but a pile of white bones.
After Rulai Fozu revealed the Six-Eared Macaque's true form beneath his golden bowl, Sun Wukong struck Liu'er Mihou dead with a single blow of his staff.
Xuanzang commands Sun Wukong through the golden headband, keeping him obedient on the Journey to the West.
Sun Wukong discovered the Water Curtain Cave behind the mountain's waterfall and was acclaimed king of Huaguo Shan by the monkey tribes, ruling from his stone throne as the Handsome Monkey King.
Sun Wukong descended to Dragon King Ao Guang's Crystal Palace demanding a weapon, and when Ao Guang could offer nothing worthy, the Monkey King seized the iron pillar from the sea floor that no one else could lift.
Sun Wukong stormed Dìyù in defiance of death itself, seizing the Book of Life and Death and striking the names of all monkeys from its pages so that none of his kind would ever be claimed by the underworld.
When Sun Wukong's rebellion shook Heaven, Erlang Shen answered the summons and met the Monkey King in a duel of seventy-two transformations — serpent against crane, fish against hawk — until Erlang Shen's truth-seeing third eye pierced every disguise.
Laozi attempted to destroy Sun Wukong in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, but the Monkey King survived and emerged with fiery golden eyes.
Nezha descended on his fire wheels to challenge Sun Wukong during the Monkey King's assault on Heaven, matching blade against staff before the two fought to a standstill.
Sun Wukong, appointed guardian of the Pantao orchard, devoured the ripest peaches of immortality instead of protecting them, then crashed the Peach Banquet and drank the celestial wine, making himself virtually indestructible.
Sun Wukong, left alone to guard the Pantao Yuan, gorged himself on peaches from all three tiers — those ripening in three thousand, six thousand, and nine thousand years — absorbing their immortal essence and becoming virtually indestructible.
Puti Zushi taught Sun Wukong the seventy-two transformations and cloud-somersaulting, then expelled him, warning him never to reveal his master's identity.
Rulai Fozu trapped Sun Wukong under Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years after the Monkey King's rebellion against Heaven.
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.
Sun Wukong crashed Xiwangmu's Peach Banquet, consuming the celestial food and wine after discovering he had not been invited.
Sun Wukong stormed Dìyù, beat the underworld judges, and erased his name from Yanluo Wang's Book of Life and Death.
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