"Wow! Eighty Thousand Water Army! Master Zhu, you're so amazing! And you're a celestial being from Heaven, too. I thought you were just a monster. Hehe."
After they grew more familiar, Xiao Yun became bolder and laughed aloud as she spoke.
Zhu Bajie wasn't the least bit angry. He laughed heartily before continuing.
"Before we met Master, Junior Brother Sha and I really were monsters. We were lucky Master set us on the right path. Otherwise, we'd still be causing trouble in the mortal world."
"Speaking of that, I have to mention my senior brother."
"Your senior brother? You mean that monkey? By the way, why didn't the Martial Ancestor capture him?" At the thought of the hairy-faced, Thunder-god-jawed monkey, Xiao Yun realized she hadn't seen him at all.
"Hehe, capture him? You have no idea how capable that monkey is. Think back to when he wreaked Havoc in Heaven five hundred years ago—that was all him. He proclaimed himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and when the Jade Emperor saw that, he tried to recruit him. But after he went up to Heaven, they gave my Monkey Brother a job tending horses. They bullied him again and again.
"In the end, he couldn't take it anymore and wreaked Havoc in Heaven. He dragged that old Jade Emperor right off his throne. If Tathagata Buddha hadn't shown up back then, the Jade Emperor would probably have been replaced by now."
When Zhu Bajie started bragging, he really had no filter. What he said was mostly true, but Sun Wukong probably wasn't capable of replacing the Jade Emperor.
Besides, the reason Great Immortal Zhenyuan hadn't captured Sun Wukong was simply that Sun Wukong hadn't been there, which was how he'd escaped. After all, compared with an old-school cultivator like Great