On an island in the East Sea, a monkey leaped through the mountains and streams.
His divine abilities manifested on their own, his magical power born with him.
This island was called Flower-Fruit Mountain, and this monkey was a stone monkey nurtured by Heaven and Earth from a rock on the island!
Though he had received no instruction, he was born with knowledge and often pondered bitterly over the way to immortality.
One day, a Daoist with crane-white hair and a youthful face came treading over the waves and stopped to rest on the island.
Seeing that the Daoist was extraordinary, the stone monkey specially offered him fruit and mountain spring water, then knelt before him, begging the Immortal to teach him the way to immortality.
Considering the stone monkey's exceptional aptitude and steadfast desire to seek the Dao, the Daoist imparted his teachings.
After ten years of tempering, the stone monkey had become a great demon who ruled the whole of Flower-Fruit Mountain!
He called himself the Monkey King, and, able to stand equal to heaven, took the title Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
One day, while the Monkey King slept soundly, two evil gods shaped like sweet potatoes appeared in his dream.
One had purple skin and red hair, the other red skin and purple hair.
Without a word of explanation, the two evil gods hooked the Monkey King's divine soul and dragged him away.
"Who are you? How dare you seize my soul? I am a cultivator equal to heaven, beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements! How could my allotted lifespan have run out?" Shocked and furious at having his soul seized, the Monkey King roared at the two evil gods.
"What's he shouting so loud for? Just a little Spirit Division Realm demon