At the Chang'an celebration banquet in the twenty-seventh year of Zhenguan, Zhu Bajie saw through many details the strangeness of the "Sun Wukong" in front of him. The deviation in the color of the green butterfly, the gentle manner in which he drank, and his preference for green tea were all completely different from the senior brother in his memory. A terrible suspicion grew in his mind: maybe the one who died in Lingshan was the real Monkey King.
Bajie secretly explored and found the golden hair of the six-eared macaque in the fake Wukong's Zen room. He also saw the devastation in Huaguo Mountain. The monkey grandson was brutally killed, the golden cudgel was covered with dust, and the blood characters on the cave wall pointed to the eighty-first level secret of Lingshan. He met up with Sha Monk, who was also suspicious, and learned the truth from Tang Monk. Twenty years ago, during the encounter between the real and fake Monkey King, Wukong had already understood the Buddhist conspiracy, and voluntarily sacrificed himself to protect his master and disciple Zhou Quan. He was suppressed by the Tathagata at the foot of the Lingshan Mountain, and the current battle to defeat the Buddha was just a six-eared macaque stand-in created by Buddhism.
In order to save Wukong, the three masters and disciples gathered together to uncover the secret of the backlash of the tight curse. Tang Seng used the merits of his ten lives as a guide and sacrificed his cultivation to unlock the seal. Wukong, who regained his freedom, started a life-and-death showdown with the six-eared macaque, and defeated the false body with the willpower he had cultivated for twenty years. He even faced the Tathagata directly, asked his heart with a stick, and pierced his appearance of "saving all sentient beings."
This scam that spanned twenty years ended with Tathagata admitting defeat. Wukong returns to Huaguo Mountain to become the true Monkey King, with master and disciple returning to their respective positions. The real pursuit of learning is never about achieving fame and success, but about keeping one's heart and regaining freedom.
