Sun Wukong Had Someone Backing Him? The Six-Eared Macaque Ascended to Heaven! (Two-in-One)

Sun Wukong was a Stone Monkey born from the Five-Colored Stone left over when Nuwa mended the heavens long ago. His origins were extraordinary, but only compared with the creatures of the Primordial World at large. Against the Monkey God, one of the Chinese Zodiac and the third monkey born between heaven and earth, his origins amounted to little.

What, Sun Wukong also had merit from mending the heavens?

Sorry, no!

Although he had been born from a Five-Colored Stone, the stone that nurtured him had never been used to mend the heavens. It had been left over, so where would the Stone Monkey have gotten any such merit?

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." At that moment, the Monkey God, whose position as clan chief Sun Wukong had hoped to seize, had pinned him to the ground and was beating him mercilessly. His Golden-Banded Staff had been knocked flying in their very first exchange. Compared with his opponent, his strength was like an ant's against an elephant's; he could not budge him at all. When he tried to leap away and dodge, he proved slower too, and his opponent simply reached out and caught him. This long-forgotten sense of helplessness suddenly gave Sun Wukong some understanding of what his master had told him.

"My disciple, you must understand that the Heavenly Court is a very dangerous place. Now that Empress Houtu has gone to Chaos, even the East Sea and the Underworld together cannot compare with the Heavenly Court for danger!"

That was what Yuding had told Sun Wukong back on Penglai Island. At the time, Sun Wukong had thought he was going to the Heavenly Court to ask the Heavenly Emperor to issue a decree annulling Bai Suzhen's marriage agreement, not to make trouble. There was nothing to fear, so he