Sun Wu Kung: The Nether World
The Chinese Fairy Book compiled by R. Wilhelm & Frederick H. Martens
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Plot Points
- Sun Wu Kung, the Handsome Monkey King, falls asleep after a meal and is visited in his dream by two men who fetter him
- They take him down beneath the Earth in his dream to the Nether World
- Once there, he realizes what they are trying to do
- Having achieved immortality, Sun Wu Kung is outraged that they are trying to bring him to his death
- He lashes out with the rod from the Dragon King and smites the two who are escorting him
- The ten princes of the Nether World come to see what the commotion is at the gates
- Sun Wu Kung confronts them and demands to see the book of life, which sets the limits of the times of men and animals and gods
- Fearful of the Monkey King, they offer the book to him
- Sun Wu Kung takes a pen and scratches out he times of death for he and all of his fellow monkeys from the Island of Flowers and Fruits
- Now protected from the grasp of the Nether World forever, the Monkey King exists the dream and reawakens back in reality
- Once there, he tells his monkey army of what eh has done and they throw a huge party for their King
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