"Left up, jumped out of the alchemy furnace, and with a sudden bang, kicked down the Bagua furnace."
——Excerpted from Chapter 7 of Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West": The Great Sage Escapes from the Bagua Furnace and the Calming Ape at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain
"There was no such mountain here, because the Great Sage was captured by the Manifestation when he was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years ago. He went to Laojun and placed the Great Sage in the Bagua furnace. After forging it, he opened the cauldron. When you knocked down the alchemy furnace, a few bricks fell. There was residual fire inside, and it turned into a mountain of flames here."
——Excerpted from Chapter 60 of Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West" The Bull Demon King breaks off the war and goes to the Chinese banquet Sun Xingzhe's two-tone banana fan
At that time, the true fire of samadhi was burning in the Bagua furnace, so it only lasted for five hundred years and became one of the eighty-one difficulties. Just imagine that this fire is the true fire of samadhi and it fell from the nine heavens. How could nothing happen during it? How could only the 800-mile Flame Mountain be formed?
It turns out that during its fall, the gap between time and space was torn apart, even if it was only for a moment...