Devouring Journey to the West: All My Divine Powers Come from Devouring

Others cultivate immortality by meditating. Sun Wukong does it all by swallowing things. He swallowed the Golden Cudgel and gained the power to transform it as he pleased; he swallowed the Peaches of Immortality and gained eternal life; he swallowed Laozi's golden pills and became invulnerable. When I stood at the foot of Spirit Mountain, the Tathagata asked what I wanted. I said, “I want to swallow the heavens.”