The Five Directional Guardians Humiliated the Great Sage Equal to Heaven-Where Was This Swagger When I Stood Before You?

A savage, defiant roar rang through the Five Elements Mountain.

It shook heaven and earth.

Countless birds fled into the sky, and beasts scattered in every direction!!!

Rustle, rustle, rustle...

Footsteps approached. Then pair after pair of boots appeared before Sun Wukong.

The newcomers were the Buddhist Sect's Five Directional Guardians: the Golden-Headed Guardian, Silver-Headed Jiedi, Poluo Jiedi, Poluoseng Jiedi, and Maha Jiedi.

Besides them,

the Heavenly Court had sent the Four Duty Merit Officers and installed a local earth god at the Five Elements Mountain.

They were there to guard Sun Wukong.

"Demon monkey, what are you yelling for? Is our Buddha Patriarch's name something a little demon like you can shout whenever you please?"

The Golden-Headed Guardian stared at him with open mockery and sneered. "Heh. What Great Sage Equal to Heaven? You're just a little demon monkey pinned beneath the Five Elements Mountain. Let's see you get back to Flower Fruit Mountain!"

"A puny demon monkey dared defy the Buddha Patriarch. What a joke!!"

"Heh, I thought some mighty god or immortal had come. Never expected a few little bald donkeys like you." Fallen though he was, Sun Wukong still looked down on such minor gods. He sneered. "Why didn't you dare yap in front of Grandpa Sun before? Why come barking like dogs now that I'm down?"

"Before, a minor god like you was no more than a roadside dog to me—trash I could wipe out on a whim!"

"If you'd had the guts to shout at me back then, I might have called you somebody."

"But you waited until I was weak to come swaggering on someone else's power. I truly despise you!!!"

"You're so bold now. Where was all that barking when you stood before Old Sun?"

Monkey gave him a defiant look and