Journey to the West - Chapter 7 Part 1

0:00 The 5th Monkey is a teammate of volunteers from around the world. We do not receive any outside funding. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to keep the series going. Thank you, Journey to the West, An Audio Drama series, Chapter 7, Part 1, Fortune and fame, all determined by fate. To live is never letting the soul go awry, truthful and straight. Good virtues shall bring a future so bright arrogance will provoke the wrath of heaven.

0:43 If not now, some day down the line. Ask God why. Why now such plight? Because its ambitions saw no limits. Hierarchy was ignored and rose defied. We spoke of how the heavenly, equally great sage was marched to the monster beheading platform by heavenly soldiers. As he was tied to the monster qualling pillar.

1:11 He was slashed by knives, chopped by axes, stabbed by Spears and cut into by swords. Yet nothing inflicted any damage on his body. Stars of the Southern Dipper fiercely order all the gods from the Fire sector to simmer him in burning flames. Yet fire could not hurt him either, and so the Thunder Sector was ordered to nail into him a shower of Thunder splinters.

1:40 Yet this again could not even damage a single hair on him. The Mighty Force, Monster King and others reported to the throne. Your Majesty. This great sage has learned this power of self protection from who knows where. We, your subjects have tried cutting with blaze, chopping with axes, striking with Thunder, and burning with fire, yet none of it could hurt him even by a single hare. What should we do?

2:12 The Jade Emperor heard this and said there is brute How could this? What should we do about it? The Supreme and Venerable Elder then reported that Monkey has eaten divine Peaches, drunk imperial wine, and stolen divine magical pellets. That 5 bottles of pellets he ate had a mixture of both raw and cooked ones.

2:45 He swallowed them all into his stomach. When you burnt him with Somali fire, it tempers him into a solid mass, turning his body into golden steel which cannot be quickly destroyed. Why not turn him over to this old Taoist? I shall place him in the furnace of eight trigrams and smelt him with both low and high heat.

3:09 That way my magical pellets can be restored while his body will turn to ash. The Jade Emperor agreed, and soon ordered the six Gods of the ordinal Ding and six gods of the ordinal Xia to release the prisoner and hand him over to the Elder. Here Ding and Xia are both ordinals of Kiangan, the heavenly stems, which are used to name the days and years. Xia is the first name of the heavenly stems, while Ding is the 4th.

3:46 The Elder accepted the edict and left. In the meantime, R long the illustrious sage was summoned. He was awarded with 100 golden flowers, 100 cups of imperial wine, and 100 pills of refined magical pellets, as well as rare treasures, bright pills, brocades, and so on. All things he could share with his Swarm brothers.

4:14 The true Lord thanked the throne and returned to Guangziang Ko. We will speak no more of that. The elder was back in the Tushta Palace, where he ordered the great sage to be united. They retrieved the weapon that peers through his scapulae before pushing him into the furnace of Eight Trigrams. And so the Taoists watching over the furnace and the youths lighting the fire. Were ordered to fan up the flames for the smelting process. The furnace, you see, exhibited the 8 trigrams Xiang, Kan, Gan, Jun, Shun, Li, Kun, and DUI in eight directions respectively. Ukong squeezed himself into the compartment of Shun, which was in the southeastern direction.

5:06 Shun also represented the wind. Where there was wind, there would be no fire. However, the wind stirred up smoke which reddened his eyes. This left him with a permanent condition called Hoi yen, Xinxin fire eyes and golden pupils. Time flew by and soon 49 days have passed. The eldest fire has reached the required conditions and so on this very day he opened up the furnace to collect his magical pellets. At the time, the great sage was covering his eyes with both hands as he tried wiping away tears. Suddenly he heard a noise from the top of the furnace. He opened his eyes hard and saw it was light. Unable to restrain himself, he leapt up and jumped out of this furnace of pills.

6:04 With a loud crash, he kicked down the furnace of eight trigrams and walked straight out. Terrified, those who tended the fire and watched the furnace, along with the guards of Fin and Zia, all rushed to drag him back, and one by one they were all thrown off by Wukong, who was behaving like a beast going berserk.

6:27 The Elder ran up to clutch him, only to be knocked head over here with a shove. As Wukong made his escape, he pulled out the compliant rod from his ear. With a bounce in the wind, it turned thick as a bowl. Holding it in his hands and not giving a damn about good or evil, he created another havoc in heaven.

6:50 And so the 9 celestial luminaries shut their doors and the four Heavenly Kings were nowhere to be found. The splendid fiendish monkey, natural born and immortal with a rot complying to whatever it is told. Body of a monkey, the heart of a man, a heart human enough. But still wild as an ape this time around, the Monkey King threw away all regards and swung his iron rod in every direction.

7:21 Not a single guard could withstand his attacks. He made his way into the Hall of Omnipresent Brightness all the way outside the Hall of Miraculous Mist. Fortunately, an aid to the Sage Guardian and true Lord named Divine Officer Wang was on duty in the halls. He saw the great sage charging around, and so he pulled out his golden hard whip and went up to bar him, saying Unruly monkey, where do you think you're going? As long as I'm here, this is no place for you to go, rogue. The Great Sage didn't bother arguing and instead swung his rod at him.

8:01 The Divine officer raised his hard whip to hit back. The two got into a messy battle in the Hall of Miraculous Mist. The Divine officer, courageous and upright, selfless and determined, was there to make sure the great sage never got his way. They fought on and on, with neither coming on top. Meanwhile, the sage, guardian and True Lord send his aids to the Thunder sector to have all 36 Thunder generals deployed as they circle the great sage at the center. They all fought with the utmost ferocity, The great Sage, however.

8:38 I got a trace of fear on his face. With his one compliant rod, he blocked from the left and dodged from the right, barring from behind and advancing towards the front. At one moment all the Thunder generals unleashed their sharp weapons at him together. Faced with such imminent attack, Hukun shook his body and turned to the form of three heads and six arms.

9:05 With a bounce, the compliant rod too, tripled itself. The six hands holding 3 rods started moving like a spinning well, whirling and dancing smoothly at the center of the encirclement. None of the Thunder guards were able to come close. Truly, perfectly round, blindingly bright. An everlasting form, now replicable by any man, cannot be burned by fire.

9:34 Cannot be drawn by water like the gleaming Pearl we call money. Immune to the blades of many. He could be good, he could be bad, good or bad. Now all at his will. When good, he could be a Buddha or an immortal. When bad he will go fur and horns like a beast, endless transformations wrecking the heavenly palace out of the reach of Thunder generals and vine soldiers. The many sages closed in on the great Sage, keeping him in one spot but still unable to go near him. All the hustle and bustle had long disturbed the Jade Emperor. He therefore released and needed sending the Divine Officer of patrol along with the sage assistant and true Lord to the West and asked the elderly Buddha to come subdue Sun Wukong.

10:30 The two sages received the edict and headed straight to the land of Wonder Spirit Mountain, also known as Rulitakut or Vulture Peak. They arrived at the treasure temple Thunderclap. After paying respect to the four gods of Ratula and the eight bodies Atwa, they asked their message be delivered. The gods therefore came under the treasure Lotus dais to inform Buddha or Rulai.

10:59 Also known as to Target, whom then received the visitors, the two sages greeted Buddha by circling him three times before waiting under the dais rule. I asked what matter of the Jade Emperor has brought the two sages to my humble place. The two sages then detailed what had taken place from Seong Kong's origin in the Mountain of Flower and Fruit.

11:29 All the way to him breaking out from the furnace of Eight Trigrams and wrecking havoc in heaven, they concluded by saying, That is why the Jade Emperor has sent us here to invite Rule I to defend the throne. Rule I listened carefully and then told the various bodies. Atwa, you all shall sit steadily here in the religious hall.

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