The story began here- THE MONKEY KING: THE BEGINNING
And continued here- THE MONKEY KING: HAVOC IN HEAVENThis is the conclusion.
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With all of their options exhausted, the Jade Emperor
and the authorities of Heaven appealed to the Buddha, who arrived from his
temple in the West. They pleaded with Buddha to help them stop the Monkey King
and he agreed. Buddha approached Sun Wukong (Monkey King) and made a bet with
him, he bet Sun could not escape from his palm with a single jump. Sun Wukong,
knowing that he could cover 54,000 kilometers in one leap, smugly agreed. Sun jumped and landed somewhere that seemed
like the end of the world in seconds, all that was visible were five huge
pillars, Wukong decided that he had surely reached the ends of heaven so he
signed “Great Sage equal of Heaven” on one of the pillars and also urinated on
it (to mark his territory I guess, let’s not forget he’s part monkey), and with
another leap he was back on Buddha’s palm. He told Buddha he had won but Buddha
told him he was still on his hand and then Sun realized the five pillars he saw
were actually Buddha’s fingers when he saw his ‘autograph’ and well urine on
one of them.
