Taibai Jinxing returned to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and bowed to report.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Yang Jian has received the decree and will set out for Flower-Fruit Mountain at once."
Haotian nodded.
"Good."
He swept a glance over the assembled ministers below the hall, then suddenly raised his hand and waved.
A bronze mirror slowly emerged from the void.
The mirror's surface was more than ten feet wide, its entire body gleaming with luster, and at its center churned a sea of clouds.
The Haotian Mirror.
"My dear ministers, today you shall watch with me and see how Yang Jian captures that wretched monkey."
The assembled ministers below the hall cupped their hands in unison.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Light flowed across the surface of the Haotian Mirror, and the image changed rapidly, passing through layer after layer of cloud seas, crossing ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, before finally fixing upon a verdant mountain in Dongsheng Divine Continent.
Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Monkeys all over the mountains and plains were playing and causing a racket, their chasing and scuffling filling the entire peak with noise.
The waterfall before Water Curtain Cave roared, and white mist billowed high into the air.
A streak of light crossed the horizon and stopped above Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Yang Jian stood atop the clouds, looking down at the lush mountain below.
He swept a glance over the monkey hordes covering the mountain and called out.
"Sun Wukong."
"Yang Jian of Huoyun Cave, by command of the Jade Emperor, has come to seize you and bring you back to Heavenly Court for trial."
His voice was not loud, but the words were wrapped in a layer of Magic Power, carrying clearly across all of Flower-Fruit Mountain.
The monkey hordes below the mountain stirred, chattering