In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan,
this was the sixth year since the Journey to the West began.
The previous winter, Tang Sanzang and his disciples reached the checkpoint set up by Red Boy.
Red Boy's behavior made even Wang Ming's heart skip a beat.
The mountain where Red Boy resided was called the Six Hundred Li Drill Mountain.
In this mountainous region, there was a mountain god every ten li and a earth deity every ten li, totaling thirty mountain gods and thirty earth deities.
Red Boy frequently captured the mountain gods and earth deities, sending them to his cave dwelling to stoke the fires and prop open the gates. At night, he made them rattle bells and shout out the watch, while his minor demons liked to demand protection money. It could be said that he tormented these earth deities and mountain gods to a miserable degree.
Do not be fooled by how submissive the earth deities and mountain gods appeared in front of Sun Wukong; in truth, they were not simple either.
The strength of mountain gods and earth deities was average, but behind them stood the Underworld.
The Underworld had been wreaking havoc twice by Sun Wukong and Chen Xiang. Ox-Head and Horse-Face, along with Judge of the Underworld and Yama King, all wore expressions of bitter resentment yet spoke of compliance, looking utterly cowardly and easy to bully.
Yet if a real fight broke out, not one of the Ten Kings of Hell would fear Sun Wukong.
The only reason Sun Wukong was able to vandalize the Book of Life and Death was that they had intended for it to happen.
Bad debts and rotten accounts accumulated over millions of years were wiped completely clean with a few strokes of the monkey's brush.
One could