"Following Master all this way has truly opened my eyes! Back when I was stuck on Flower Fruit Mountain, I thought Primordial Heaven and Earth amounted to no more than a corner of the East Sea. How could I have imagined that Kunlun had jade pillars holding up the heavens, that Penglai hid an immortal realm of deathless beings, and that everywhere nature gathered such divine beauty!"
Sun Wukong scratched the golden fur behind his ear. He had seen countless new sights along the journey, and his Golden Eyes of Truth shone brightly. Sitting down on a flagstone, he spoke with a hearty laugh,
"Back when I was Great King on Flower Fruit Mountain, all I knew was practicing with my staff and drinking every day. Then I was pinned beneath Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years and couldn't move an inch. Only on this journey to fetch the scriptures with Master
"did I learn what it meant to say, 'Reading ten thousand books is no match for traveling ten thousand miles.' I can't shut myself away in one place to train anymore. Once we've obtained the true scriptures, I'll visit every famous mountain and mighty river of the Primordial Era!"
"You're absolutely right, Brother Monkey!" The moment Zhu Bajie heard this, he tossed the pit of the wild peach he had only half eaten into the grass,
sticking out his round belly and slapping it with sharp pats, even his great palm-leaf-fan ears wobbling,
"I used to spend all my days in Gao Family Village, holed up in my cave dwelling, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating. Only after traveling all this way with Master
"did I discover that there were so many delicious fruits and such fine spirits in the world! From now on, I need to