An ancient powerhouse tens of thousands of times his age!
Sun Wukong admitted that he would be utterly dumbstruck!
Or, to put it simply, Sun Wukong had chickened out!
The monkey pretended to glance at Old Ancestor Kunpeng, only to meet that icy stare.
He shuddered at once.
An image instantly surfaced in his mind: a gigantic fish hundreds of millions of times his size ramming him into the water!
Then, amid the divine power of raging wind and thunder, the Great Peng would snatch him out of the water and tear him into pieces with his claws!
As for eating him, that certainly would not happen.
Everyone knew that Kunpeng liked eating dragons and nagas. He had no interest in monkeys-tiny things with little meat and far too many bones!
After a whistle meant to divert attention, which actually came off as rather comical,
Sun Wukong resumed recounting his life before meeting Xu Tong:
"Later, I lashed together a wooden raft, brought some fruit and coconuts, and set out to sea! I drifted tens of thousands of miles! Across sea and land alike, I endured a thousand hardships before a woodcutter finally guided me to the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars..."
At this point in his account, Sun Wukong paused.
Clearly,
he had thought of Patriarch Bodhi back then.
The man had treated him so well, teaching him all sorts of spells and abilities.
Who would have thought that, in the end, it had all been a scheme by Buddhism!
"It's all in the past now!"
Sun Wukong shook his monkey head, his expression unchanged, and continued with the next part:
"Once I finished my training, I returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain... and went to see the Dragon King..."
Xu Tong's attention was not on what