"Great King... It's the Great King!! The Great King is back!!!"
And at that moment, the imprisoned monkeys looked at Sun Wukong in ecstatic delight.
Sun Wukong was brimming with killing intent, but when he looked at his monkey subjects, he returned to his former self.
"Children... you've suffered..." With a thought, Sun Wukong destroyed the cages and embraced the monkeys.
It turned out that twenty years after Sun Wukong had left, a demon called the Chaos Demon King had arrived. He possessed the strength of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, and the monkeys of Flower-Fruit Mountain could not defeat him at all.
Thus, for nearly a year, the monkeys had been living in misery.
But now, their Great King had returned and had killed the Chaos Demon King with a single strike of his staff!!
"Great King, you've finally come back! Why did you leave for so long? You left all of us here, longing for you as if starving and thirsting! Recently, a demon came here and abused us, forcibly trying to seize our Water Curtain Cave abode. We risked our lives to fight him."
The Old Monkey was covered in wounds. Tears streamed from his eyes as he said, "But... that demon was far too powerful. We were no match for him... He even seized our abode, and our children and nephews were reduced to his food..."
"How dare he!!!" Sun Wukong looked toward the Chaos Demon King's mangled remains. He was already dead, his soul destroyed, and Sun Wukong now regretted letting him die so easily!
"What was his name, and where are his clansmen?" Sun Wukong asked.
"Reporting to the Great King, that fiend called himself the Chaos Demon King and lived directly to the north!" the Old Monkey said. "That fiend also had a host