The Monkey King and his comrades had finally reached Confucius's Palace
located inside the Forbidden City of the Jade Emperor within the Emperor's Palace.
And soon the battle with Sun-Wukong and Confucius for the Blade of Heaven
would begin. First they would have to gain permission with the Jade Emperor also
known as the King of Heaven to have an official duel with the great Sage
Confucius. King Gilgamesh and Enkidu stressed they would have to leave after
Monkey completed his trial but he needed to see the battle between the Monkey
King and the Great Sage Confucius for it was only once in a 1,000,000 years one
could witness such an event. The heroes entered the palace of Confucius. "So the
Monkey King has finally arrived. I hear that now you're a Buddhist, a devout one
at that. I remember a demonic beast that prayed on both Taoist and Buddhist souls
alike across the Middle Kingdom and now you're a Pacifist? Excuse me for my
skepticism Sun-Wukong." Said Confucius. "I've changed Sage, I'm not the
impulsive rogue I once was." Said Monkey. "I tried to give you balance
Sun-Wukong. I tried to teach you the three great-teachings of China, Confucianism,
Taoism and Buddhism. I taught you to respect the rule of law, be one with the Tao
and follow the teachings of the Buddha and Lao-Tzu. But you consistently fought
me at every turn and chose your arrogant-pride over enlightenment. And you
expect me to believe you've really changed? How foolish." Said Confucius. "I
guess the young Monk Tripitaka was a better teacher than the old supposedly wise
Sage Confucius." Said Monkey. "ENOUGH!" said Confucius.
After Confucius uttered the word a silence was heard across the halls of the Sage's Palace. After
some time the Monkey King responded. "So you want to fight outside, I'm fine
with whatever." Said Monkey. "My Palace will suffice lets just hope you don't try to
cheat." Said Confucius. "That's a low blow old man. But sure, we'll find out soon
enough anyway." Said Monkey. There was a long silence and than at a speed that
seemed impossible to comprehend Confucius struck Monkey with the Blade of
Heaven but it was blocked by Monkey's power pole. After this the two began to
pick up the fight and in no time at all they were impossible to see. "Incredible. This
is the true power of the Monkey King." Said Leizi. "You haven't seen anything yet
lady. He's just getting started." Said King Gilgamesh. In the sky above
Sun-Wukong and Confucius continued their battle. Sun-Wukong ended up bursting
out of the palace and flying into the air on his cloud who was followed by
Confucius. The two began to now battle in the sky. The fighting became more
intense and now the battle was truly becoming an epic struggle between two great
deities. Confucius, like the Monkey, also possessed the power to change his form
or the art of shape-shifting. So because of this the battle began to take on a new
form, the form of a battle based around each deity changing their shape to one up
the other. First Monkey chose the form of a giant ogre while Confucius chose the
form of a Fish-Like Water-Demon. Monkey now had a large club and swung it directly at Confucius who grabbed Ogre Monkey's club after he was struck and
used the momentum of the swing while grabbing the club to throw Monkey behind
him into the side of a large mountain in the distance. Monkey in his new Ogre
collided into the side of the mountain quickly catching his breath and than
unleashing a devastating set of blows against Confucius. Confucius almost could
not believe the incredible speed in which the Monkey King unleashed his attacks is
was becoming increasingly difficult even for the Great Sage himself to keep up
with Sun-Wukong's attacks. Now Confucius was finished playing around and
turned from a Water-Demon into a massive Dragon. But two could play at that
game and Monkey transformed himself into the giant demonic monkey he was
always capable of changing into. Sun-Wukong for the first time in a long time was
actually scared and began to feel himself shrinking to some extent. But he
remembered what was at stake and rose to the challenge. The Monkey King removed his sword and struck the side of the large
dragon. He decided to revert from his demonic form into his regular form as he
reasoned it would be easier to fight a giant monster in his smaller form and created
duplicates of himself with literally thousands of Monkeys running around the
dragon only one of them being the real Sun-Wukong.
Confucius in his new dragon form was deeply confused as it must be taken into account how large he was.
Confucius was 10,000 ft. long, keep in mind that for context the Mariana Trench is
over 36,000 ft. so Confucius had become a massive Eastern Dragon larger than any
mountain on Planet Earth by far. The Monkey King knew that thousands of
Monkeys wasn't enough so he multiplied more first into millions, then billions and
finally into hundreds of billions of Monkeys. "So this is Confucius's final form?
Amazing?! The Great Sage of the Middle Kingdom certainly doesn't disappoint!"
thought Monkey. Monkey ran up the side of the beast mirroring the battle in the
previous chapter between Ungar and Demon King Taipei in his Dragon Form
though Taipei was the size of a mountain while Confucius had dwarfed Taipei in
every department. Sun-Wukong used one of his special attacks, the Wukong-Strike
in which he harnessed the Daoist elements of Water, Earth, Fire, Metal and Wind
as well as the essence of the Buddha to launch devastating magic strikes with his
sword. The Wukong-Strike did some significant damage and from below the others
could see the battle.
"From the first time I met Sun-Wukong he always amazed me. He loved
fighting. I doubted if I could ever convert him to Buddhism. His power is like
nothing else I've ever seen."
Thought Tripitaka. Tripitaka thought back to the first
time they met when Sun-Wukong was trapped under a mountain for over 500 years and the young Buddhist monk Tripitaka arrived to help him. He remembered that
day so clearly. In the setting Tripitaka is on the Journey to the West from China to
India to retrieve the Sacred Scrolls or Sutras from the Buddha himself when he
stumbles upon Sun-Wukong underneath a mountain, his head and arms sticking out
of the bottom of it. "Hey you're the monk the Goddess told me about! The Buddhist
Tripitaka right?! Hey would you mind getting me out of here! I heard you could get
me out." Said Monkey. "Why are you under this mountain in the first place
Monkey?" asked Tripitaka. "Well I kind of told you guy the Buddha that I was
thinking of overthrowing the Jade Emperor! Long story short your master got so
fed up with me that he trapped me under this mountain with a magic seal.
Fast-forward 500 years later and I'm still sitting here!" said Monkey. "Well aren't
you a God? Why can't you just get out?" said Tripitaka. "Because genius! One of
the Buddha's disciples put a magical seal on the top of the mountain which was
requested by the Buddha himself. The seal can only be broken by a Buddhist Monk
and hey that's what you are! So why don't you be a gentleman and get me out of
here!" said Monkey. "The seal is all the way up there?" said Tripitaka. "Yeah so
you better stop climbing Monk. I can wait. I've already been waiting 500 years to
get out from under here so a couple of more days can't hurt too bad." Said
Monkey. After a few days Tripitaka had reached the top and removed the seal.
Monkey waited several more days for Tripitaka to descend from the mountain and
then allowed the Monk to move far enough away from the mountain so he wouldn't get hurt when Monkey blasted out of the mountain. When Tripitaka assured
Sun-Wukong he was far enough away the mountain exploded in an instant.
Tripitaka was descended from a god-like being himself but he was still a mortal
and he had never seen this level of power before he was happy to know that the
Monkey King was on his side but his power put the Monk in a trance. "Well I guess
we better start heading to the lands to the west in Hindustan (India). We're going
to traveleing along time together so we better try to get along Monk! What do you
say?!" said Monkey. "Sounds like a plan." Said Tripitaka and the two headed off
on their adventure. From that point on Sun-Wukong defeated every challenger on
their journey to the West that came between them and their ultimate goal while
recruiting Pigsy and Sandy to their fellowship as well. This same level of power
was being shown by Monkey right now and the fight was about to end when the
dragon was completely destructed by the army of Monkeys the real Monkey had
managed to sneak up behind Confucius and with his sword cut him completely in
half from nose to feet. The battle was over and the Monkey King had won. After
the battle King Gilgamesh and Enkidu said their goodbyes and headed back to their
kingdom in the Desert Realm in the south and Confucius praised Monkey giving
him the Blade of Heaven. They said there good byes to the Great Sage Confucius
and headed off to the entrance to the Underworld where they would meet up with
Daniel and the others once they got there as well as Acon 01 01 01 -012 and Taiping.
The five warriors, Sun-Wukong now armed with the Blade of Heaven,
Tripitaka, Pigsy, Sandy and Leizi the Lightning Goddess now all headed to the
entrance of the Underworld. "The Monkey King is truly powerful there is no doubt
in my mind. But the Gate Keeper, Sun-Wukong and everyone else will need more
than power to defeat Lord Iblis and the greater threat that lies beyond him. They
need to become 'Junzi.'" Thought Confucius.