I, Old Sun, wasn't some simple-minded monkey! But my grandmaster was the Heavenly Emperor's good corpse, and the current Buddha Lord was the Heavenly Emperor's corpse of evil? How had I never known any of this?
And here I'd thought the Buddha Lord had a discerning eye for monkeys and appreciated my talents, unlike the Heavenly Emperor, who made me a lowly Keeper of the Horses. Even after I earned military merit, he only made me a measly deputy general in the navy. Now you're telling me they were the same bear?
Damn!
And my grandmaster was the same bear as the Buddha Lord and the Heavenly Emperor too? Wasn't my grandmaster supposed to be a reincarnated Heavenly Venerable? How had that turned into the Heavenly Emperor?
Lies! This world was full of far too many lies!
Whoosh! Just as the monkey was questioning his entire existence, a vast expanse of divine light descended from the sky outside the Pure Altar Temple. A divine general clad in black Battle Armor and holding the Demon-Slaying Sword arrived at the head of a contingent of Heavenly Soldiers.
"Sun Wukong, I am Zhenwu, the Demon-Slaying Great Emperor! By the Heavenly Emperor's command, I have come to apprehend you. Come out at once and accompany me to the Heavenly Court for an audience!" Zhenwu called into the temple.
Inside the temple, Zhu Bajie instinctively rose from the floor upon hearing this and murmured, "Martial Uncle is here!"
Then he told Sun Wukong, who had also risen, "Brother Monkey, you're done for. The Heavenly Emperor knows you ambushed a High God and has sent Zhenwu the Great to arrest you. There's no escaping now."
"I wasn't planning to escape anyway, but... how did he get here so quickly?" The monkey pulled himself together a little