“I’m the only odd one out in my sect.”
“Funny, so am I!”
“They won’t let me become a Golden Immortal.”
“They won’t let me become the Jade Emperor either!”
“Prejudice in people’s hearts is a mountain. My family is gone, and there’s no point in me living…”
“Enough talk! Cut to the chase!
Come with me to the Underworld and save them!”
The Golden Cudgel pointed straight into the clouds as Sun Wukong roared, “Let’s smash that damn Heavenly Dao together!”
Everyone in the Chan Sect knew: the Twelve Golden Immortals would never take in demons.
Yet they had kept Shen Gongbao around as a token of their claim to “teach without discrimination.”
After cultivating for thirteen thousand years and placing first in seven Golden Immortal selection trials, Shen Gongbao had been rejected every time.
All because he was a demon, covered in fur and bearing horns!
Fine!
He would cut off his leopard tail and cast off his demonic form, all for a fair chance!
But they said, “This is Heaven’s will! A demon is a demon!”
Heaven’s will?
No! Prejudice!
In a fury, Shen Gongbao nailed his severed tail to the gates of Yuxu Palace, hoping to smash that damned fate. Instead, he was thrown into the Demon-Sealing Cave and imprisoned for a thousand years!
But just as he had sunk into utter despair, a wild scrawl appeared on the stone wall at the bottom of the cave:
A stone monkey swung his staff and smashed the monument to immortality with a single blow.
The next moment, a defiant divine thought rang through his mind, shattering ten thousand years of dead silence:
“They won’t let you become a Golden Immortal?
Funny, they won’t let me become the Jade Emperor either!
How about coming with me to storm the Nine Heavens and smash that damn Heavenly Dao?”
