Journey to the West: What Does Fetching the Scriptures Have to Do with the Demon Ape?

[Journey to the West + chaos + Flower-Fruit Mountain + the Four Monkeys of Havoc] [The Great Dao is contested. Characters from each tribulation appear after chapter 65 to seize the Great Dao's fruits.] He wakes up one day and finds himself transmigrated into Journey to the West. He has become Sun Wukong before his birth, the Lingming Stone Monkey and one of the Four Monkeys of Havoc. Just as Sun Wukong resigns himself to becoming Buddhism's lackey, he suddenly senses a familiar aura within himself. It turns out to be a fragment of the Chaos Demon Ape's original essence. After refining it, Sun Wukong learns that if he devours the other three Monkeys of Havoc, he can once again become a Chaos Demon God, transcend the Heavenly Dao, and break free of its control. From then on, Buddhism realizes that Sun Wukong is becoming harder and harder to control. When the fake Wukong appears, Sun Wukong seizes him and refines him on the spot. Now, together with the Long-Armed Ape and Red-Rumped Horse Monkey he devoured earlier, he has gathered the full essence of the Chaos Demon Ape. While the people of Buddhism stand dumbfounded, Sun Wukong attains the Primordial Great Unity Dao on the spot. Tathagata stares in disbelief. “You're telling me Sun Wukong is stronger than I am?” A towering figure steps into Mount Sumeru. “Tathagata, come out and meet your death!”