"Fellow cultivator, how about giving this little monkey a name?"
Patriarch Bodhi stroked his beard and looked toward Cangyuan as he suggested it.
Cangyuan agreed and said with a smile, "Then you and I can each choose one and see which this little monkey likes."
"Good."
Patriarch Bodhi nodded with a smile, withdrew his gaze, and looked back at the Stone Monkey.
The Stone Monkey also looked at Patriarch Bodhi and Cangyuan with anticipation, blinking, lively and restless.
Cangyuan went first. "Looking at you, you're rather like a macaque that eats pinecones. Why not take the character hu from husun, remove the beast radical, and make your surname Gu Yue. And since you endured hardships to come to this Fangcun Mountain, with heaven and earth square and round, we'll use Fangyuan as your name. How does Gu Yue Fangyuan sound?"
"This one's good, this one's good, hehe."
The Stone Monkey clapped his hands and hopped about, overjoyed.
After pondering for a moment, Patriarch Bodhi crooked a finger and began writing in the air, saying as he wrote, "Why not take the character sun, remove the beast radical, and make your surname Sun. In my sect there are twelve characters used by generation when assigning names, and by your turn, you are of the tenth generation.
Guang, Da, Zhi, Hui, Zhen, Ru, Xing, Hai, Ying, Wu, Yuan, Jue.
For you, it happens to be the character Wu.
As your master, I will use the surname Sun, take the character Wu, and pair it with Kong, giving you the name Sun Wukong. How is that?"
"This one's good too, this one's good too."
The Stone Monkey scratched his monkey head, somewhat torn. "I like both names the two teachers chose for me."
"Then keep them both."
Cangyuan said, "Sun Wukong will be