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Meanwhile, the monster had risen high into the air and thus saved its life. The Pilgrim’s blow did not harm it in the least, for as already mentioned, it used magic to send its spirit soaring just in time.
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The master and disciple traveled for some six or seven days in the wilderness. One day, when it was getting late, they saw a village in the distance. “Wukong,” said Tripitaka, “look! There’s a village over there. How about asking for lodging for the night before we travel again tomorrow?”
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Sun Wukong bid farewell to his master and, recalling his twenty-year absence from Flower and Fruit Mountain, recited an incantation and rode his Somersault Cloud homeward.
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They passed rows and rows of lofty towers and huge alcoves, of pearly chambers and carved arches. After walking through innumerable quiet chambers and empty studios, they finally arrived beneath the Jade Platform, the Monkey King saw Patriarch Subodhi (Master Subhuti) seated solemnly, flanked by thirty young immortals.
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In Journey to the West, the first demon killed by Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) is the Monster King of Calamity(or Monstrous King of Havoc). This episode carries profound symbolic meaning rooted in Taoist cosmology.
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Sun Wukong is portrayed in Journey to the West as quick-witted and rhetorically adept. Notably, statistical analyses of the novel reveal that of its approximately 300 cited classical quotations, Sun Wukong alone delivers 110 lines—over a third of the total.
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In Journey to the West, the place where Sun Wukong practices is described as: “The Blessed Land of the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, where the Cave Heaven hides the Water Curtain.”