"Don't worry, Master. This demon monkey has been trapped beneath the mountain for five hundred years. He's long since lost the ferocity he once had. If you save him now, he'll remember your kindness and won't do anything to you."
After Ye Chen urged him again and again, Tang Sanzang finally made up his mind. He followed Ye Chen slowly toward Sun Wukong and looked at the poor monkey trapped beneath the mountain. He couldn't help feeling some pity for him.
"Amitabha. This mountain is so tall and vast that I fear I cannot move it by myself. How am I supposed to save you?" Tang Sanzang looked at the mountain pinning down the monkey, and a sense of despair crept over him.
To ordinary people, the mountain really was far too enormous. Even if they dug at it for a hundred years, they might not be able to hollow it out—not to mention someone as frail as Tang Sanzang, a scholarly monk.
"Don't be afraid, Master. There's a Golden Character Seal left by Tathagata Buddha on this mountain. All you need to do is take it down, and I'll be able to get out," Sun Wukong hurriedly told Tang Sanzang.
Tang Sanzang looked up at the towering mountain but couldn't see where the monkey's Golden Character Seal was. He turned to the monkey in confusion.
"Master, the Golden Character Seal is at the very top of the mountain. Just climb up and you'll see it. If you take it down, I, Old Sun, will follow you to the death." Sun Wukong finally saw a glimmer of hope.
He had been trapped beneath this mountain for five hundred years and had no idea how the world had changed. Now that someone had finally come to save him, how could he