Sun Wukong (The Great Monkey King)
Sun Wukong is born from a magical stone on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, a paradisiacal place full of monkeys. From that rock comes this stone monkey that comes to life, becomes king of all monkeys after passing a very brave test (jumping down a waterfall and finding an epic cave). But he, being immortal in spirit, begins to be afraid of death, so he travels the world looking for someone to teach him to live forever. He ends up being a student of a Taoist-Buddhist sage named Subodhi, who gives him his name "Sun Wukong" (something like "monkey that awakens to emptiness") and teaches him a lot of magical arts. That's where he gets brutal: he learns the 72 Earth Transfigurations, which allow him to become just about anything (animals, objects, people, you name it), fly in a cloud hop that takes him 108,000 li (like 54,000 km in a single jump), total immortality (eat peaches from heaven and drink divine elixir), superhuman strength (he lifts mounts
About Sun Wukong (The Great Monkey King)
Sun Wukong is born from a magical stone on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, a paradisiacal place full of monkeys. From that rock comes this stone monkey that comes to life, becomes king of all monkeys after passing a very brave test (jumping down a waterfall and finding an epic cave). But he, being immortal in spirit, begins to be afraid of d...Read more