After quite a bit of fussing around.
Sun Wukong finally had the little monkeys release Taibai Jinxing. Though the old fellow had tricked him, he was not a bad sort. In his "previous life," both attempts to recruit him had been proposed by Taibai Jinxing...
It was just that whenever Sun Wukong thought of the Bimawen affair, anger rose in his heart, so he had deliberately made Taibai Jinxing suffer a little humiliation.
After releasing Taibai Jinxing.
Sun Wukong took the initiative to step forward, grinning as he slung an arm around Taibai Jinxing's shoulders. Ignoring the old fellow's continual struggles, he led him to the stone table and seated him there, then eagerly poured him a cup of monkey wine.
Sun Wukong said with a smile:
"Old Star, don't be angry!"
"Old Sun was just fooling around with you..."
Taibai Jinxing felt like crying but had no tears.
Fooling around?
He did not believe that.
The vicious glint in Sun Wukong's eyes just now had been anything but fake... He was even certain that if he had truly tried to resist, Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel would have come down on his head at once!
In truth, given Taibai Jinxing's strength, he might not necessarily lose to Sun Wukong. How long had he cultivated for... and how many years had Sun Wukong cultivated?
But Taibai Jinxing had come to recruit him.
What would it look like if they started fighting?
Back in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, he had thumped his chest and guaranteed that he would surely recruit this Demonic Monkey and spare them a bout of turmoil...
Besides.
The most important point was this:
Taibai Jinxing was Haotian's closest minister. He had followed Haotian since before the Investiture of the Gods, and he knew quite a bit about the