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cave-monkey · 8 months

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Favorite thing from the books that I bring up anytime I get the opportunity:

The mountain the Buddha dropped on Sun Wukong wasn't enough to actually contain him. The seal had to be added later because Sun Wukong was clawing his way out.

#jttw personal #also it's only because Sun Wukong managed to dig himself partly free that his head and hands were exposed at all #he was originally (apparently) crushed under the mountain in his entirety and that's how they were going to leave him #like at least this way he had air and light and could kind of see things #gah #always reminded of this during events like that story later with the gold and silver horn brothers where they keep desperately throwing #MULTIPLE mountains at him trying to stop him and he just shoulders them and keeps coming #it took like...four or something? to finally put him down temporarily #five phases mountain was a very SPECIAL mountain sure #but it was still only (mostly only) one mountain #look everyone had a reason to be shitfaced terrified of the guy is all I'm saying #even the Buddha THOUGHT it was enough (he was even about to just leave entirely) but thankfully for Heaven he was convinced to stay for a-#'ahahaha how are we nOT DEAD-' party of the kind where everyone talks mad shit like they're not still vibrating with adrenaline #and in the middle of this some poor Minister comes sprinting in (I like to imagine Professor Quirrell with the troll) all #“The Great Sage!!! His head is sticking out!”#and once again the Buddha is the only one keeping chill and drawing up his seal while everyone promptly forgets to be cool and freaks out #and when THAT'S wrapped up he then decides to throw in the 'molten copper and iron pellets' thing on his way out the door #which I'm taking as him being super annoyed #I guess that's still better than 500 years crushed immobile in the airless dark but like #I don't know that's definitely a toughie in the 'would you rather' game #entirely appropriate this is the first post here I literally never shut up about this #this isn't even all of it

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