The monkey wore a battered suit of Golden Chainmail that still flashed with dazzling golden light.
A pair of Cloud-Treading Boots shod his feet.
A Phoenix-Winged Purple-Gold Crown sat on his head, though one of its long plumes had snapped, leaving the other to dance proudly in the wind.
His face was wild and untamed. Beneath his hairy face and thunder-lord mouth lay a sneer that saw through every falsehood in the world and scorned the gods and Buddhas of the heavens.
His eyes were like two tiny suns burning with golden flame, shining with the light of Fiery Golden Eyes that pierced every illusion and saw straight to its source.
And in his hand,
he held a dark-gold iron staff angled downward. Arcane dragon patterns adorned both ends, and it radiated a terrifying pressure that seemed capable of smashing a galaxy to pieces!
"Equal... Equal-to-Heaven Great Sage?!"
Li Xiang cried out in disbelief within his heart.
He had never imagined that the Great Sage Wine's journey back through reincarnation would bring him directly before this legendary Supreme Patriarch who Illuminated the Heavens!
But this was no Buddha statue, nor was he the Victorious Fighting Buddha who sat chanting sutras with closed eyes in the Western Heaven's Thunderclap Monastery.
The aura around him was too violent, too complex.
A Buddha's compassion, a demon's defiance, a fiend's madness, and a human's unyielding spirit had been kneaded together perfectly within that unremarkably sized body, creating an absolute pressure beyond words.
Sun Wukong.
The Equal-to-Heaven Great Sage who had dared to smash the Southern Heavenly Gate with his staff and trample a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals underfoot!
"You're here."
Sun Wukong did not stop walking. Carrying the Golden Cudgel, he approached Li Xiang step by step and came to a halt