Yang Jian vs. Sun Wukong

Taibai Jinxing returned to Lingxiao Treasure Hall and bowed to report.

"Your Majesty, Yang Jian has accepted your decree and is setting out for Flower-Fruit Mountain at once."

Haotian nodded.

"Good."

He glanced over the assembled ministers, then suddenly waved a hand.

A bronze mirror slowly emerged from the void.

Over ten feet across, the mirror gleamed all over, its center reflecting a roiling sea of clouds.

The Haotian Mirror.

"My ministers, join me today in watching how Yang Jian captures that unruly monkey."

The ministers all cupped their hands in salute.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Light rippled across the Haotian Mirror. The scene shifted rapidly, passing through layers of clouds and over vast stretches of mountains and rivers before settling on a lush green mountain in the Eastern Continent of Divine Sands.

Flower-Fruit Mountain.

Flower-Fruit Mountain.

Monkeys played all over the mountain, their noisy chasing and scuffling filling its slopes.

The waterfall before Water Curtain Cave thundered, sending white mist high into the air.

A streak of light swept across the sky and stopped above Flower-Fruit Mountain.

Yang Jian stood atop a cloud, looking down at the verdant mountain below.

He glanced over the monkeys scattered across its slopes and called out.

"Sun Wukong."

"I am Yang Jian of Huoyun Cave. By order of the Jade Emperor, I have come to take you to the Heavenly Court for trial."

His voice was not loud, but magical power carried his words clearly across the whole of Flower-Fruit Mountain.

The monkeys below stirred in alarm, chattering as they scattered for cover.

A sudden force split the waterfall before Water Curtain Cave, and a golden-furred stone monkey sprang out.

Sun Wukong.

Dressed in a purple-gold crown and robes, he gripped his Golden Cudgel and rode his Somersault Cloud straight up to Yang Jian.