Great Sage Equal to Heaven? No, I’m Heaven’s Favorite

The Celestial Court was already in an uproar before the immortal stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain had even cracked.

The Jade Emperor held up a broken shard of the Thousand-Mile Eye. “That golden light! The future protector is practicing the fiery golden eyes!”

The Old Lord of the Southern Pole stared at the moss growing from the crack in the stone. “Look at that spiritual energy. It must be excellent material for refining pills!”

Guanyin cradled a lotus with only a few petals left. “Amitabha. It has even absorbed the Tranquil Heart Lotus. It must have a Buddha nature!”

Only the local earth god trembled as he wrote in his diary:

Today the immortal stone rocked in the wind. The Jade Emperor said it was practicing the art of shifting forms, but actually I just forgot to secure the windbreak rope last night.

The Old Lord poured half a bottle of immortal liquid into the crack. The stone grew a layer of green fuzz, and he said it was a “successful hair-growth treatment.”

The immortals bet on the stone monkey's fur color and lost three furnaces' worth of immortal pills. Now they're all singing lullabies to the stone to hurry its birth along.

At last, the stone monkey sprang out. It gnawed on the Jade Emperor's throne, swung from the Old Lord's beard, and turned the Celestial Court upside down.

But the immortals slapped their thighs in admiration. “So full of energy! So gifted! No wonder we watched the little rascal grow up!”

The stone monkey, chewing on a flat peach, looked up in confusion. “??? Is this how you raise kids in the immortal realm?”

This is a comedic story about a child of the immortals who, from the time he was still in the womb, was seen through a “ten-level filter” by the immortals and spoiled into the Celestial Court's little troublemaker.

Who says the Great Sage Equaling Heaven has to suffer through hardships? Here, the love of powerful immortals is the greatest magical ability of all!